Week 34 of Pregnancy: Gender Differences

Sorry to be behind folks. With the holidays and our mid-week getaway (watch for an upcoming picture post) I lost track of a whole week! I start week 35 tomorrow!!!! And a fun and slightly scary fact that freaked the not quite ready yet parents to be out- my original due date in my chart would have been next Thursday!!! Rob just finished painting the nursery today too! (watch for another picture post!!)




Your baby could be as tall as 20 inches right now and about five pounds. Need a visual? Hold a five-pound bag of flour in your arms and imagine it's your soon-to-be-born baby (cradle it, and you'll only get strange looks in the baking aisle). Then stack three such bags one on top of the other (and get ready for some more strange looks, maybe from the same clerks who saw you grinning and holding that one-pound box of sugar a few weeks ago). That's how tall your baby is at 34 weeks pregnant. (Now go bake some oatmeal raisin cookies with all that flour!)

If your little doughboy is, well, a boy, then you'll be pleased to know that this week his testicles are making their way down from his abdomen to his scrotum. (Some baby boys — three to four percent — are born with undescended testicles, but they usually make the trip down sometime before the first birthday.)

Your baby's fingernails now reach the end of the fingertips and may even curl over the tip, making a manicure one of the first things you'll need to do for your little bundle



(oh- for those of you who can't figure it out- this is a honeydew melon. The last fruit of the month was a squash)