This week your baby weighs a little over 4 pounds (heft a pineapple)
and has passed the 17-inch mark. He's rapidly losing that wrinkled,
alien look and his skeleton is hardening. The bones in his skull
aren't fused together, which allows them to move and slightly overlap,
thus making it easier for him to fit through the birth canal. (The
pressure on the head during birth is so intense that many babies are
born with a conehead-like appearance.) These bones don't entirely fuse
until early adulthood, so they can grow as his brain and other tissue
expands during infancy and childhood.\
49 days left, holy crap!
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