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- Want to get a real sense of
your baby's size right now?
Head your supermarket's baking aisle
and pick up a five pound bag of flour.
That's about how much
your little muffin weighs.
Now stack three bags of
flour on top of each other.
That's how tall he is.
Well, if he could stand.
About 20 inches in length.
Have boy bun in the oven?
Than hooray for his testicles,
which started out tucked up in his abdomen
and are now migrating
to their permanent home,
his scrotum.
In about three to four percent of boys,
the testicles hang out
upstairs a while longer,
lingering until some lads turn a year old,
so don't worry if your son is born
with undescended testicles.
They'll make an appearance
in the near future.
Both boy and girl babies
are producing lots of sex hormones now,
which will explain why the genitals
may appear large and swollen at birth,
and in the case of a little man,
why the scrotal skin may
appear darkly pigmented
in the first few weeks after birth.
In other news, with just a
few weeks to the big day,
vernix, the white waxy coating that
protects baby's skin from amniotic fluid
and provides lubrication for delivery
is thickening right on prepping schedule.
Also right on schedule is the maturation
of your little one's intestines,
enabling them to fully digest
mama's delicious milk when the time comes.
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