36 weeks - did you know?

• Baby Boy continues to put on weight, about an ounce a day.
• He is about 19-20 inches long and weighs about 6 to 6 ¾ pounds.
• Most of his bones (soft skull aside) are now completely hardened.
• At the end of this week, he will be considered a full-term baby!!!

35 weeks - did you know?

• Baby boy is about 18.5 inches long and weighs about 5.5 to 6 pounds.
• The vast majority of his growth is completed this week.  His kidneys are completely developed, and his liver is beginning to process waste.
• He will spend the next couple weeks putting on even more weight!!!!
• Baby boy is beginning to develop its own immune system.  Before it was depending on Mommy's.

34 weeks - did you know?

• Baby Boy is between 17-18 inches and weighs about 5 pounds.
• His central nervous system is continuing to mature and the lungs are well developed.
• If he were to be born right now he would be called a pre-term infant instead of premature. The only difference is in the maturity, particularly lung maturity. A pre-term baby is less likely to need intensive care because its lungs have developed.
• He is still rotating to the head down position for delivery. 

33 weeks - did you know?

• Baby boy between 17-18 inches long and weighs about 4.5 to 5 pounds.
• His skin is beginning to look less red and less wrinkled.
• Fat stores are continuing to be deposited under his skin.
• His bones are all beginning to harden except for the skull.  The skull needs to remain soft and pliable for delivery.
• With the exception of crying, he is capable of doing everything that a newborn baby can do. 
• He sleeps a lot of the time, just as newborn babies do.
• His eyes move in the manner of REM sleep and researchers believe that babies can dream vividly in utero.
• When he is awake, he is listening, feeling, and learning.  There are billions of neurons in the brain that make trillions of connections.
• His eyes are open during alert times and closed during sleep.