Your baby at 22 weeks
Your baby is the size of a papaya.
Brow know-how
Your baby can now furrow actual eyebrows! These fine hairs are pure white, as they don't contain any pigment yet. Eyelids have developed too, although they'll stay fused shut until about 28 weeks.
Inside workout
Now that baby’s arms and legs are proportional (but not their final size), he or she is busy kicking, grasping, flexing and clasping those little hands. Tiny fingernails now completely cover the fingertips and they keep growing. In fact, you may need to trim your baby's nails straight after birth to avoid scratching that baby-soft skin.
Prepare for padding
During 22nd week of pregnancy, your baby only has one per cent body fat, but will keep adding on layers of brown fat to help produce and retain body heat.
Your pregnancy at 22 weeks
Feeling it
Your belly has grown enough for you to really 'feel' pregnant and the rest of the world knows it too. Your morning sickness has probably ended and your appetite is back.
Under the weather
If you come down with a cold or at 22 weeks pregnant, wait for your doctor to approve any over-the-counter medicines.
Drink extra fluids, rest, eat regularly and renew your belief in the restorative powers of chicken soup. It's hot, liquid and nutritious everything you need when you're ill.
Twin development at week 22
At week 22 your babies measure about 7 1/2 inches from crown to rump. They each weigh a full pound. There are two important developments this week. They can now swallow, and they have a fine hair called lanugo covering most of their bodies. Lanugo helps hold the vernix caseosa on your babies’ skin. The vernix caseosa helps to protect your babies’ skin while in the womb.
22 weeks pregnant symptoms
- varicose veins
- hemorrhoids
- abdominal pain
- backaches
- pelvic pressure
- changes in vaginal discharge
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