Week 22

My Baby
This week taste buds begin to form on your baby's tongue, and he's fine-tuning his sense of touch (thanks to maturing brain cells and nerve endings). Your baby may experiment with these newfound skills by feeling his face or anything else he can get his hands on. Now weighing about a pound and almost 7.5 inches long, your baby will develop two kinds of hair in utero. The first is lanugo, a soft, downy body hair, which usually falls off before or shortly after birth. Then there's the hair on his head. He may be born with next to none -- or something completely unexpected. Towheaded couples often have babies with full heads of black hair; brunettes can have a little blond or redhead. Got great curls? Your kiddo might arrive with pin-straight hair. The locks your child is born with probably bear little resemblance to his future hair. By the time he's about 6 months old, his birth hair usually begins to fall out, to be replaced with the real deal. Look back to your and your partner's own baby pics -- they may give you a glimpse of what to expect.