Update on Baby Horak - 22 Weeks Pregnant

Our baby has finally broken the one-pound mark and is about eleven inches long. She’s starting to look like a miniature newborn. Her lips, eyelids, and eyebrows are becoming more distinct, and she's even developing tiny tooth buds beneath her gums. Her eyes have formed, but her irises (the colored part of the eye) still lack pigment.  She has deep wrinkles on her skin, which she'll sport until she adds a padding of fat to fill them in. Inside her belly, her pancreas — essential for the production of some important hormones — is developing steadily. Her eyelashes and eyebrows are well formed now — and even more hair is sprouting atop her cute little head. But hair at this stage of fetal development has no pigment, so it's bright white.
  
This week, our sweetie is making more sense of the world as she develops the sense of touch. In fact, our little one's grip is quite developed by now — and since there's nothing else to grab in utero, she may sometimes hold on tight to the umbilical. Her sense of sight is also getting more developed. Our baby can now perceive light and dark much better than before (even with her fused eyelids).