Third trimester · roughly month 9 · about 2 weeks to go

38 weeks pregnant

Everything Hello Belly has for week 38 — how your baby is developing, what your body is doing, and the small things that are easier to know in advance.

Your baby at 38 weeks

35–42 weeks

Now you can predict what your baby looks like much better than your doctor with ultrasound machine: baby has completely designed his individual features, similar to his father and mother. Moreover, now it is even difficult to say exactly how much he weighs because at this time the normal rate for all children is individual. The skin is smooth and opaque, beautiful brows and cilia are in their places. By the way, he admires the world around with gray-blue eyes: the pigment will come later.

Well, in the meantime, he is almost ready to be born — now the body simply accumulates extra fat, produces iron, and the kid works tirelessly: he sucks his fingers (by the way, on his feet too), swallows and spits out amniotic fluid. So get ready and download the Baby Tips app: very soon you will need the first tips from it!

This week's open tip

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Where do blue eyes come from?!
Remember the interesting fact that baby's hair can change color after birth? So, it’s the same situation with the eyes. Most newborns have eyes of an incomprehensible gray-bluish-blue hue.
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