Month 3 – I can Suck My Thumb!
Your spiritually adopted baby is quite active in the womb now – although his mother won’t feel him for another few months. If his mother’s womb had a window, you could watch your baby squint, swallow and move his tongue. He can make a tight fist if you touch his palm. He is breathing amniotic fluid which continues until birth, although he obtains the oxygen his body needs through the umbilical cord. The baby you are praying for weighs one ounce and is 2-1/2 to 3 inches long. Early this month – at just 9 weeks – he began to suck his thumb.
“For you formed my inmost being. You knit me together in my mother’s womb. I will give thanks to you, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made.” Psalm 139:13