Your baby is the size of a Chocolate Covered Apple!!
Dos & Don'ts | Week 16
Do start sleeping on your left side
Don't look at your ultrasound screen if you want to keep your baby's gender a secret
Your baby's hair is likely starting to grow.
What You should expect in Week 16
From a donut sprinkle to a chocolate-covered apple, your baby is getting so big!
Every day your uterus is expanding to create more room, making that bump of yours bigger and bigger.
Week 16 is around the first of the weeks some moms can even start to feel their babies moving around.
As The Bump reports, these initial movements and sensations are called “quickenings.”
You may have also been asked whether or not you want to do an amniocentesis. This is an elective test that can detect several defects and abnormalities.
The test is “generally considered safe, but comes with a very small increased risk of miscarriage.”
As for your baby, those tiny movements and motions may be triggered by the sound of your voice.
That’s right; it’s around week 16 that your baby begins to really hear what is going on around him or her, so start chatting away!
In addition to hearing sounds, your baby is also growing hair, more bones, and muscles, and their liver and pancreas are starting to work!
Their toenails are starting to form, and so is their lung tissue.
