Pregnancy week 22

Your baby at week 22

Baby's sense of touch grows. Eyebrows and eyelids are well formed.

Your body at week 22

The bump grows visibly. Backache, leg cramps or mild swelling may appear. Baby's kicks become part of the day.

Garbh Sanskar practice for week 22

Baby can hear now — read stories aloud, hum, or chant softly. Invite your partner to speak to the bump.

This week's stories

• Day 148: The Stillness on the Field

  Week twenty-two, and the small body inside you is learning to be still between movements — the way Krishna sat still between two armies.

• Day 149: The Forty-Year Silence

  Some teachings the small one inside you will not hear with ears at all — only with the steady quiet of your body, day after day.

• Day 150: The Mountain's Silence

  Halfway through the journey now — and the body inside you is learning that the truest answers do not always arrive in words.

• Day 151: The Seven-Day Story

  When grief comes, the body inside you will feel it too — and tonight a sage shows that the cure for sorrow is sometimes simply a long, patient story.

• Day 152: Three Days Before

  A small body is learning rhythm inside you — and tonight an old minister shows that the rhythm of wisdom is often slower than the rhythm of speech.

• Day 153: The Tea Cloth

  Inside you, the same small motions are being practised over and over — and tonight a tea master shows that this is how a whole life is made.

• Day 154: Uddhava's Message

  End of week twenty-two — and tonight a friend learns that the deepest devotion is not a thing you carry to someone, but the way you sit beside them.