Is your heart swelling with love for your baby? Well, yours isn't the only heart that's getting bigger. Your baby’s heart is growing, too, and dividing into the right and left chambers. But the most exciting part is that her tiny heart is now beating (at a speedy 100 to 130 beats a minute) and pumping blood throughout her body. The cells that will make up all of your baby's body parts and systems are dividing furiously as her body begins to take shape. Right now she's about the size of a small lentil bean (4 to 5 millimeters across). Read more on your Pregnancy Follow-up Handbook.
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