Your baby is about the size of a long cucumber (kheera) this week. She weighs almost 430g and is about 27.8cm (10.9in) long from head to foot (crown to heel).
Your baby's body parts are in the right proportions now but she still has a lot of growing to do. She'll build up fat in the coming months. This will help her regulate her body temperature and will be a reserve of energy for her rapid growth after birth.
Your baby's eyes have formed, but the irises don't have much colour yet. The colour of her eyes will continue to develop after she is born.
Your baby continues to swallow amniotic fluid, which is good practice for her digestive system. There is a little sugar in the fluid that her body is learning to absorb and which supplements what she gets from the placenta.
Your baby pees any excess water she has swallowed in. The waste from her body that comes out with her pee is removed from the amniotic fluid through the placenta. It is absorbed into your blood stream and your body then eliminates it with your own waste. That's one of the reasons why your kidneys have to work harder during pregnancy.
Your baby's bowels will hold onto any solid waste left in her intestines after her body absorbs the water. It will all come out as your baby's first bowel movement, called meconium, soon after birth. Her first poo will be sticky and dark green or black. It's normal for newborns to lose a little body weight over a few days after they're born - it's partly the weight of their first poo!
If you're having a baby girl, her mammary glands, which one day will be responsible for making breastmilk, continue to develop this week. If you’re having a boy, his testes are now starting to descend from his pelvis into his scrotum.
