Now that you’re 24 weeks pregnant, your fetus is about the size of a full ear of corn. He weighs a little more than a pound, and he is almost 8 inches long from crown to rump.

And that’s pretty sweet! On the development docket this week: a total baby body wrap. Your little one gets a head-to-toe coating of vernix caseosa, a white cheesy-looking substance made up of lanugo (that downy hair), oil from his glands, and dead skin cells.

Fetal growth chart

‘The introduction of solid food to an infant’s diet should take place at about 6 months of age. The recommendations for the age of weaning are the same for both breastfed and formula fed infants. The exact timing to begin the process should be driven by the unique need of the individual infant’.

Seven weeks into your pregnancy, or five weeks after conception, your baby’s brain and face are growing. Depressions that will give rise to nostrils become visible, and the beginnings of the retinas form.

Others describe first baby kicks to feel like flutters, gas bubbles, tumbling, a light tickle, a painless “zapping” feeling, a light flicking, or a gentle thud or tap. As baby grows, movements will become much more pronounced and you will feel them more frequently.

Umbilical cord: A cord that connects the developing baby to the mother in utero. The umbilical cord attaches to the baby at the abdomen and to the mother at the placenta. The cord forms during the fifth week of gestation (seventh week of pregnancy).