Week 24 - Squash

Well have made it to 24 weeks, the time when the baby is officially viable with the doctors trying to save him if I went into pre-term labour. Although babies can survive at this point it is only about 30% and with serious NICU intervention.

Your baby now weighs more than 600g. She is starting to fill the space in your uterus (womb). From crown to heel she could measure 30cm. Though your baby still has little body fat and her skin is thin and fragile, she's well-proportioned. Her brain is growing rapidly, tastebuds have fully developed, and her footprints and fingerprints are continuing to form. Inside her body, her lungs are developing branches of the respiratory tree as well as cells that produce surfactant. This substance will help her air sacs inflate once she reaches the outside world.