25 weeks pregnant

This week

Learning to breathe before there is air.

• 🫁
  Lungs getting ready

  The lungs begin producing surfactant, the substance that will let them open with the first breath.
• 🎶
  Responding to sound

  Loud sounds and music can now get a response: a kick, a startle, a wriggle.
• 👃
  Nostrils open

  The nostrils, sealed until now, open up and the baby starts practise-breathing amniotic fluid.

Written against the NHS week-by-week guide. A picture, not a measurement: every baby grows at their own pace.

“What do you imagine about the first time you hold the baby?”

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