This week, you are around 3 pounds and 17 inches tall.
With each added layer of baby fat, your wrinkly raisin skin starts to look more and more like it will when you're born.
Your developing immune system has made some serious gains over the past weeks getting them in full gear to face our disease-ridden world o’ wonders.
Even so, a large majority of your immune strength will need to come from your Momma's milk in the first year.
Your little noggin’ (which could already be covered with luscious locks or just purty peach fuzz), is still soft because the skull bones have not yet fused together.
As disturbing as having a soft cracked skull sounds, it's pretty much a necessity for passage through the birth canal during labor.
If you are in the birth canal for an extended period, you may come out with a bit of a cone head, as a result of your skull plates being compressed while in the rather snug birth canal. It's normal, harmless and your skull will even out into a more round, less cone-heady shape in the next few weeks.
Oh, and FYI: you may have that “soft spot” on your head for up to eighteen months (1 1/2 years man time) after birth.
Cheers to you little man!
Poppy
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