1st week • implantation

• zygote ->blastula -> morula-

>blastocyst

• Syncytiotrophoblast &
cytotrophoblast

• maternal blood vessels -

primary nutritional source

2nd week • Bilaminar embryonic disc Day 12: lacunae fused to form
(hypoblast, epiblast)
lacunar networks
• extraembryonic structures

• blastocyst implantation

• exocoelomic cyst

3rd week • Gastrulation

• primitive streak

• 3 germ layers

• notochord

• Neurulation

• formation of neural tube

• neurula

• heart starts to beat

4th week • heart starts to beat

• pharyngeal arches

• upper and lower limb buds

• primitive gut

• tail-like caudal eminence

• bigger head

5th week
• mesonephric ridge (kidneys)

• migrate from secondary yolk

sac to ovary

• regional differentiation

6th week
• heart prominence

• auricular hillock

• eyes

• formation of digits

7th week • ossification of bones

• physiologic herniation

• looks more human

8th week • external genetalia but don’t

know sex

9th week • 3 months

• head is half the fetus

10th week • primary ossification centers

in skull and bones

 • primary ossification centers

in skull and bones

11th week • retraction of intestinal loop

• urine formation

become primary oocyte and • erythropoiesis in liver

arrested at prophase I • fetal heart tones using

12th week doppler

• GI system

13th week • 4 months

• sex is determined

14th week • eyes and ears are in place

15th week • brain fully developed

(sucking, breathing, pain)

16th week ossification of facial skeleton

17th week • 5 months

• quickening

18th week • lanugo hair

19th week • vernix caseosa

• reproductive organs
20th week fetal movements

21st week • 6 months

• nervous system

22nd week • integumentary system

(fingernails, no fat yet)

23rd week
• lung surfactant
24th week
25th week
26th week • 7 months
• viable period

27th week • CNS

28th week • cardiopulmo

• Hematopoiesis - bone
marrow

29th week • spleen

• presence of fat
30th week • 8 months
• more developed brain,
31st week pupillary light reflex

32nd week • increased fat, lanugo

disappears
33rd week
34th week
35th week • 9 months
• head and abdominal
36th week circumferences are equal

37th week • fetal foot measurement

larger than femur

• 3400 g

 larger than femur

• 3400 g

38th week
• descended testes