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Your baby's eye development is almost complete. Eyes are necessarily complex muscles containing many layers and parts including the retinaA membrane of the eye consisting of nervous tissue and comprising ten layers. It is contiguous with the optic nerve sending visual impulses to the brain.
The retina is soft and contains rhodopsin which gives it its purple tint. If exposed to direct sunlight it will become clouded.
Visit our comprehensive glossary for more pregnancy terms and definitions., corneaA dense transparent structure that forms the outermost portion of the eye. It is nonvascular (does not contain blood), and projects like a dome beyond the sclera.
Visit our comprehensive glossary for more pregnancy terms and definitions., irisA part of the eye that separates the space between the lens and the cornea into an anterior and posterior chamber. It is a circular disk, capable of contracting and perforated by a circular pupil. It serves to limit or maximize the amount of light entering the eye.
Until the fetus reaches about week 28, the two chambers are separated by the membrana pupilaris. Subsequently and into all adult life the two chambers communicate through the pupil.
Dark pigment cells under the translucent tissue of the iris are arranged to produce different eye colors. In blue eyes, the pigment cells only appear on the posterior surface of the iris. In gray, brown and black eyes, the pigment cells appear in the anterior epithelium and the stroma.
Visit our comprehensive glossary for more pregnancy terms and definitions. and lensThe crystalline lens of the eye which lies behind the cornea and iris, and is used to focus the light onto the retina permitting vision.
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The eye color, part of the irisA part of the eye that separates the space between the lens and the cornea into an anterior and posterior chamber. It is a circular disk, capable of contracting and perforated by a circular pupil. It serves to limit or maximize the amount of light entering the eye.
Until the fetus reaches about week 28, the two chambers are separated by the membrana pupilaris. Subsequently and into all adult life the two chambers communicate through the pupil.
Dark pigment cells under the translucent tissue of the iris are arranged to produce different eye colors. In blue eyes, the pigment cells only appear on the posterior surface of the iris. In gray, brown and black eyes, the pigment cells appear in the anterior epithelium and the stroma.
Visit our comprehensive glossary for more pregnancy terms and definitions. of your baby, like babies of most races, are probably blue and will not change to their final color until a few months after birth. This is because the blue pigment that colors the eyes are behind the iris, while all other pigments are in front. In fact, everyone has blue eyes, behind the pigment that subsequently covered it! Your baby's is also growing eyebrows and eyelashes which are still short and require further developing.
Your baby's skin is still red and wrinkled in anticipation of increased fat deposits. The next trimester will see the skin fill out as more fat is created ready for birth.
The pressure of the uterus may lead to back pain, leg cramps and pressure on and around your pelvis. The pressure will probably make you want to pass urine, while additionally you might also be getting headaches.
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