6th week of pregnancy: what happens to the baby and mom - Lifehacker

What does your child look like?

Embryo already about 6 mm long, like a pomegranate seed. If a woman decides to do an ultrasound, perhaps the doctor will distinguish the baby's heartbeat. Normally it is 105 beats per minute. Sometimes you can see several embryos at once.

In addition to the heart, the embryo already has vessels in the umbilical cord (future umbilical cord), the rudiments of the liver, kidneys, pancreas, endocrine organs, arms and legs. In the upper part of the body, lungs are formed, and a breathing tube grows towards them from the head.

The processes of the first two gill arches on the face are finally connect, a depression appears between them - the future mouth. The remaining parts of the gill arches form the tongue, palate, eardrums, middle ear ossicles, as well as small auricles and even some nerves.

At the same time, the retina and lenses are formed, and the eyes themselves become like glasses on a short stem. But they are located very far from each other, on the sides of the head.

The brain is no longer just a bubble. Now these are five segments, two of which are future hemispheres. Next to them, the cartilages of the skull begin to form.