You are now in 34th week of your pregnancy and the fetal age is 33 weeks, 2 days.
In this pregnancy week ...- Baby is continuing to grow bigger and bigger each day. The baby can now take deep breaths, blink eyes, open eye when awake and close them when asleep, the pupils dilate and constrict in reaction to light and limits the amount of light entering the eye.
- Hormones from the placenta are starting to activate the milk in mother’s breasts.
- For baby boy, his testicles will migrate way down from his abdomen into his scrotum. Few newborn boys will have undescended testicles at birth, which will descend within the first year.
- Pregnancy hormones may cause scrotum to be swollen at birth for baby boys and for baby girl, her vulva will appear puffy and swollen as well. Both of these changes settle down within the first few weeks after birth.
- Vernix caseosa which was covering your baby's skin is still protecting it; however the soft downy hair - the lanugo - which was covering baby’s skin, now starts to disappear.
- Baby will grow to average length of about 17.72 inches or 45 centimeter Crown to Heel and weighs about 4.73 pounds or 2146 grams towards the ends of this week.
First trimester starts on very first day of your last menstrual cycle on 19-Sep-2023 and ends on 12-Dec-2023
Second trimester is from 13-Dec-2023 to 26-Mar-2024
While Third trimester begins 27-Mar-2024 onwards.
The expected date of birth of your baby is 25-Jun-2024, however depending upon fetal growth and your age, the baby may be born between 11-Jun-2024 and 02-Jul-2024.
Note: Information provided above is for general education only, growth of baby inside womb depends upon many factor and growth of your baby may differ slightly than indicated above, please seek medical advice whenever in doubt.
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