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17 Weeks

Had an OB check up yesterday and everything is looking as it should. The baby's heart rate was 156 and my 24hr. urine labs say my kidneys aren't under any undue stress. Here is the email for 17 weeks.

Hello, Amy!

Your baby weighs about 5 ounces now, and he's around 5 inches long — about the size of a large onion. The umbilical cord, his lifeline to the placenta, is growing stronger and thicker. Your baby can move his joints, and his skeleton — until now, rubbery cartilage — is starting to harden into bone. Some of it will remain cartilage for years after he's born. A newborn's skeleton has 300 parts (a combination of bone and cartilage). As your child grows, some of these parts harden and fuse together. By the time your baby reaches adulthood, he'll have just 206 bones.

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