Twenty-Four Weeks Pregnant

I'm growing steadily, gaining about a quarter of a pound since last week, when I was just over a pound. Since I'm almost a foot long, that makes a pretty lean figure, but my body is filling out proportionally and I'll soon put on more baby fat. My skin is thin, translucent, and wrinkled, my brain is growing rapidly, and my taste buds are developing. My lungs are developing "branches" of the respiratory "tree" and cells that produce surfactant, a substance that helps the air sacs inflate easily.