32 Week Development

Your baby now weighs approximately 3.75
pounds/ 1.7 kilograms and is about 17 inches / 42 centimetres long from head to
toe. Although his lungs won't be fully developed until just before birth, your
little one is inhaling amniotic fluid to exercise his lungs and practise
breathing.

Some babies have a head of hair already,
others have only a few wisps. Thick hair at birth doesn't necessarily mean thick
hair later on but children with fine hair in childhood usually have thinner hair
in adulthood.

If your baby is a boy, his testicles
should be descending from his abdomen into his scrotum. Sometimes however, one
or both testicles won't move into position until after birth. In two-thirds of
all baby boys who have undescended testicles at birth, the condition corrects
itself by the boy's first birthday.

You're probably gaining a pound/ 450 grams
a week, largely because your baby is likely to gain more than half his
birthweight during the seven weeks before delivery. Make sure you are eating
well in these last few weeks.