Continuing to build the most amazing human body

Movement is your growing baby’s primary activity. They can bend, flex, twist, stretch and kick, as well as suck, swallow, yawn and grasp.

Rapid growth of the part of your baby’s brain associated with movement and balance enables your growing baby to practice increasingly more coordinated activities. Due to extended connections from the brain to most parts of the body, baby can perform somersaults, back flips and rolling movements in the next few weeks.

With surprising development of hearing and tasting the way is open for babies to have even more extensive interactions with you.

Life in the womb – now we can observe it – bears little resemblance to the lazy world we once thought happened in which a growing baby was an inactive passenger, virtually deaf, dumb and blind.

Your growing baby’s brain is affected by environmental factors such as malnutrition. This is why it is critically important to eat well and healthily during pregnancy.

One of the biggest surprises about life in the womb is the way growing babies can feel and react. Spontaneous and graceful movement that can now be observed from about 10 weeks reveals self-expression and early aspects of self-control, needs and interests.