This week your baby is hitting the growth charts at 6 inches long and half a pound in weight. What fruit is it this week? Your baby's about the size of a large mango. A mango dipped in greasy cheese, actually. Vernix caseosa - a greasy white protective substance (it resembles cheese) - now covers your baby's entire skin, protecting it from the surrounding amniotic fluid. Without that protection your baby would look very wrinkled at birth. The coating sheds as delivery approaches, but some babies born early are still covered with vernix at delivery.
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mmmm...mango and cheese baby...
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