17 weeks pregnant - Gender Scan

 At 17/40 your baby is now nearly 11cm long from crown to rump and weighs about 140g. The skeleton is mostly rubbery cartilage, but will start to harden as the weeks go by. A protective substance called myelin slowly begins to wrap around the spinal cord. Sweat glands are starting to develop all over the body. Just as the grows bigger, the umbilical cord, the lifeline to the placenta, is growing stronger and thicker, too.

At this stage in pregnancy we can begin to accurately assess fetal gender.


IT'S A BOY!