Round up!

Your baby is covered in a waxy coating. This week, the vernix — that cheese-like, greasy coating — keeps getting thicker, and over the next few weeks it will start to come off, so the baby will have time to become clean.

Little pea is already very tall and growing heavier and puffier. Under the skin, fat deposits accumulate, which will help regulate the baby’s body temperature after birth, smoothing out her skin, and the baby herself is nicely rounded. The central nervous system of the baby and her lungs are almost fully mature. If you are nervous about preterm birth, be aware that children born between 34 and 37 weeks old who do not have other health problems usually do well. They may need a short stay in the neonatal unit, but they will soon catch up with full-term babies and will not differ from them. If you have a boy, this week his testicles will finally move from the abdominal cavity to the scrotum. Only 3-4% of boys are born with undescended testicles, but during the first year of life, everything returns to normal.

Calcium, which has been actively deposited in the bones of the fetus over the past weeks, is still needed. But now it’s important not to overdo it because too much calcium can make her bones too rigid, and so it will be more difficult for the baby to come into the world.

Great news — your baby has started to see colors. And the first shade she can make out is the reddish color of the uterus from the inside. Well, now you can safely let the baby behind the wheel — she will accurately determine the red light of the traffic light.

Little nails on the arms and legs have grown to the tips of her fingers: did you remember to buy baby nail scissors and gloves, so that the pea would not scratch herself? I bet you would rather see and touch these little hands and feet that are poking into your belly from the inside? Wait a little — it will happen soon.

Measuring a baby:
Height:
Crown to rump: 12.6 in (32 cm)
Crown to heels: 17.7 in (45 cm)
Weight 5 lbs (2.25 kg)