Around this time, the should be settling into the proper position for birth, with his head facing downward. He should now be about 2.5 pounds and almost 16 inches long. He's busy adding new skills such as blinking to an already impressive repertoire of tricks like coughing, sucking, hiccuping, and taking practice breaths. His sleep now includes the REM (rapid eye movement) phase — and that means he could be dreaming already! (feel free to comment on what you think he may be dreaming about). Though his lungs are nearly fully mature (so both of you might breathe a little easier if he were born now), your baby still has plenty of growing to do. Of course, it's still best that he doesn't check out of that uterine hotel just yet — there's still a lot of growing and maturing to do over the next 12 weeks.
He's started kicking and moving around a lot more lately. And it's been happening all throughout the day instead of predominantly at night, which is exciting. Aunt Candace actually got to feel him kick this past weekend! Grandmom and everyone else are a little jealous.
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