Your baby’s growth during weeks 29 to 32

Week 29
Your baby’s weight and size are continuing to increase this week. As a
result, you’re probably feeling increased activity inside your uterus, with your baby’s movements more frequent and vigorous. Some of your baby’s jabs and punches may even take your breath away.

Week 30
Your baby is continuing to steadily add weight and layers of fat. From now until about your 37th week of pregnancy, your baby will gain about a half-pound a week.

Your baby may be practicing breathing movements this week by moving
his or her diaphragm in a repeating rhythm. These movements may even give your baby a case of hiccups. As your baby continues making these movements, you may occasionally notice a slight twitching in your uterus, like little spasms.

At 30 weeks into your pregnancy, your baby weighs about 3 pounds and is about 10  1 /2  inches long, crown to rump.
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Your baby’s growth during weeks 25 to 28

Week 25
though. If she or he wants to grasp a Your baby’s hands are now fully
developed, complete with miniature fingernails and the ability to curl his
or her fingers into a tiny fist. Your baby is probably using these hands
this week to discover different body parts. He or she is exploring the
environment and structures inside your uterus, including the umbilical
cord. The nerve connections to your baby’s hands have a long way to go, big toe, it won’t be an easy task.
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Your baby’s growth during weeks 21 to 24
Week 21
This week your baby will begin absorbing small amounts of sugars from the amniotic  fluid he or she swallows throughout the  day. These sugars will pass through your  baby’s digestive system, which is now  developed enough to handle them. Sugars  from your amniotic fluid, however, make  up only a tiny portion of your baby’s  nourishment. Most of what your baby  needs is still being delivered through  your placenta.

Also this week, your baby’s bone marrow is starting to make blood cells. The  bone marrow works along with the liver  and spleen, which have been responsible  for making blood cells up to this point.
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It starts with these tiny little flutters, as if someone is tickling me lightly from the inside. It takes me by surprise, then disappears before I can put my hand on my abdomen. Now these unexpected touches are the joy of my day. I’m feeling my baby move.

Your baby’s growth during weeks 17 to 20
Week 17
Eyebrows and hairs on your baby’s scalp  are continuing to appear this week. Your  baby is probably continuing to have bouts  of the hiccups. Although you aren’t able to  hear them, you may begin to feel them,  especially if this is your second baby.

This week, brown fat is beginning to  develop under your baby’s skin. This will  help keep your baby warm after birth,  when the temperature change from your  uterus to the outside world will be quite  noticeable, to say the least. Your baby will  add more layers of fat in the later months of your pregnancy.
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Your baby’s growth during weeks 9 to 12

Week 9
This week your baby is becoming distinctly human in shape, looking less  like a tadpole and more like a person. The embryonic tail at the bottom of  your baby’s spinal cord is shrinking  and disappearing, and the face is more rounded.

Your baby’s head is quite large  compared with the rest of the body and is tucked down onto the chest. Hands and feet are continuing to form  fingers and toes, and elbows are more pronounced. Nipples and hair follicles are forming.
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