What is 17 inches long, just over 3 pounds in weight and cute all over? It's your baby - and he or she is getting bigger by the day (in case you couldn't tell by the size of you belly). Also getting bigger daily is baby's brain, which is preparing for life outside of the womb - and for a lifetime of learning. Starting this week, your baby's brain is starting to look like one, taking on those characteristic grooves and indentations. These wrinkles allow for future expansion of brain tissue that is crucial as your baby goes from helpless newborn to responsive infant to verbal toddler to curious preschooler and beyond. Your baby's bigger and better brain is also starting to take on tasks previously delegated to other parts of the body, like temperature regulation. Now that the brain is capable of turning up the heat (with the help of that growing supply of baby fat), your baby will start shedding languo, the downy, soft body hair that has been keeping him or her warm up to this point. Which means that by the time your baby is born, he or she probably wont be fuzzy wuzzy anymore.
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