From the fifteenth to the twenty-seventh week of pregnancy

(with thirteenth to the twenty-fifth week of fetal life)

Fruit

By the end of the twenty-fourth week, the fetus grows up to 30 centimeters and weighs 700 grams. Skin is wrinkled and covered with an oily protective filmcalled syrovidnoy grease (vernix caseosa). From time to time During this period you can feel the stirring of the fetus,feeling with a slight tapping or shaking, like go gas bubblesbut little movement fetus and may be unnoticed untiluntil its activity is not become stronger.

In the twenty-eighth to the thirty-eighth week of pregnancy (with twenty-sixth to the thirty-sixth week of fetal life) Fruit

The third trimester is the "finish line" for the fetus. Children born in this period, usually able to survive, but as we approach the designated period and a chance to survive, and ease the transition to an autonomous existence significantly increased. By the end of pregnancy antibodies penetrate placenta into the fetus, creating short-term resistance to disease, to that you have immunity. Preterm infants receive less than this protection than full-term, therefore, more susceptible to infection.

In the last three months of pregnancy the fetus matures: nails grow to the toes and may even require a haircut soon after birth, grow hair on their heads, lanugo (fluff) almost disappears, delayed fat under the skin, the beginnings of the permanent teeth appear under rudiments of dairy.