FOURTEENTH WEEK OF PREGNANCY: What to expect?
Introduction
The fourteenth week of pregnancy has arrived!
In the following lines, you will find several tips and information on how to live this special time.
Let me start by giving you a little preview: your puppy is about the size of a lemon.
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14 Weeks Pregnant: How Many Months Is It?
The fourteenth week of pregnancy falls in the middle of the fourth month.
The latter, in turn, ranges from 13 weeks and 2 days to 17 and 4 days.
How does the fetus grow during the fourteenth week of pregnancy?
The size of the fetus at the fourteenth week of pregnancy - technically called CRL, or length from head to sacrum - is, on average, 80.5 mm.
This is an average value that is useful to report.
Never forgetting, as Dr. Alvisi often emphasizes in her courses, not to focus solely on numbers.
The best thing to do is always to turn on the instinctive part of the brain, listening to the signals of well-being that the body and the little one send.
What changes does the puppy experience during this period?
The growth of the head slows down significantly and the body, day after day, begins to resemble more and more that of the newborn baby.
Your growing baby in your belly is able, at the fourteenth week of pregnancy, to move the muscles of his little face.
Also during these days, the respiratory system is perfected, as well as the appearance of hair, scalp hair and eyebrows.
It also improves, thanks to the thumb in the mouth, the sucking reflex (if you should encounter problems once the baby is born, I remind you that osteopathy is a precious ally in resolving the problem).
During the day the puppy drinks amniotic fluid, which is then replaced by blood flow, and expels it approximately every three hours.
Continuing with the list of surprising steps that characterize the fourteenth week of pregnancy, I also remind you of the beginning of the sending, by the brain, of electrical stimuli to the muscles of the whole body, including the face.
Yes, you understood correctly: during this period your little one begins to make his first faces .