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Your Body, Your Baby
THREE
MONTHS - By the second trimester, your baby is now in its
fetal stage and measures 2 1/2 to 3 inches in length. Fully formed
the heart rate can be heard with a special instrument called a Doppler.
Here's a great
quote: "The body of the unborn baby is more complex than ours.
The preborn baby has several extra parts to his body which he needs
only so long as he lives inside his mother. He has his own space
capsule, the amniotic sac. He has his own lifeline, the umbilical
cord, and he has his own root system, the placenta. These all belong
to the baby himself, not to his mother. They are all developed from
his original cell.“
- Day & Liley, The Secret
World of a Baby, Random House, 1968, p. 13
Did
you know? Just as adults the baby at the fetal stage experiences
the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep of dreams. Okay... why did you
say you like REM's music?
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