-By week 31, your baby weighs 3.5 to 4 lbs
and has the size of a small melon.
She will
now gain as much as a half pound per week
until she's born.
Your body is sending her antibodies that
will help protect her from infections once
she's out of
the womb.
Because her taste buds are developed, she
may
acquire a preference for the foods you eat
which she
samples when she swallows amniotic fluid.
Lanugo, the fine hair
the covered her entire body and help to keep
her
warm as she developed is starting to disappear
but there
might still be patches of it on her shoulders
and
back.
If the baby is a boy, his testicles will
migrate from his abdomen into a scrotum during
week 34.
He is busy making and excreting 16 ounces
of urine
into the amniotic fluid each day.
Your baby's bones are
fully developed by now but they're still soft
which will
allow her to exit the birth canal more easily.
She's
also turning her head [unk] and moving her
body from
side to side.
