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.