Pregnancy Calendar Week 18: "development in pregnancy week 18 ~length 5.6 in 14 cm~weight 6.7 oz 190 gWOOHOO! We have two more ounces of amazing baby this week! Your super-cute uterus hi-jacker is smack in the middle of a growth spurt! Oh and guess what? They're also all slathered in a greasy, waxy, cheese-like substance known as vernix caseosa. Yeah, it sounds pretty nasty, but the mixture of fatty secretions covers your little swimmer from head to toe and protects their paper-thin skin from bruising, abrasions, and chapping caused by amniotic fluid exposure. And then there's the birthing process, right? You know, where you have to push something the size of a watermelon out a hole the size of a grape. Well, that adorable little greased piglet would have a lot harder time getting through the birth canal if they didn't have that greasy vernix caseosa slip-n-sliding them out of your hyper-extended birth canal."
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Grow baby grow.
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