Baby: Week 19

Taste buds are developing, and you swallow a bit of amniotic fluid each day, literally eating what your mother eats

Human female foetus 19 weeks from conception. Photo credit - Oxford Scientific

You’re about the size of a banana; about 27cm long,[1] and weighing in at about 360 g.

Your eyebrows and eyelids are fully developed, and you can now blink! Your movements and patterns will become very familiar to your mother.[2]

Taste buds are developing, and you swallow a bit of amniotic fluid each day, literally eating what your mother eats (for nutrition, hydration, and to practice digesting).[3] Eating for two is not just a cliché!

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