Week 38

Check out what how your baby is developing this week: -

• The baby is technically 'full term' - that is, fully developed - as it enters this week, although most doctors say forty weeks is full term too because that's the typical length of a pregnancy.
• Most of the lanugo has fallen out, but the baby's still covered in vermix.
• About 14 grams of fat is laid down each day from now on.
• The baby probably has a bowel full of meconium in a rather disgusting-looking hard rope of greeny-black stuff. Once the baby's out and starts on milk, the poo will be much more liquid.
• The baby still moves every day, but not very far.
  

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