Baby Chris is 33 Weeks Old
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| Above: Image of a 33-week-old baby in the womb. Their hand covers their face. Graphic via the Endowment for Human Development. |
[This is part 34 of a multi-part series chronicling a pregnancy through the lens of “Baby Chris.” Click here for other parts.]
33 weeks after fertilization (35 weeks LMP), Baby Chris is 18 ¼ inches and weighs 5 ¼ pounds—about the size of a honeydew melon. Baby Chris has doubled in weight compared to just six weeks ago!
Organ development is mostly completed at this point. The Endowment for Human Development reports that “[t]he digestive system further develops as the lower esophageal sphincter, a valve leading to the stomach, begins functioning by 32 weeks. Blood-filtering groups of capillaries called glomeruli have completed their formation in the kidneys.”
Learn more about Baby Chris’s journey from conception to birth by downloading the free See Baby app!
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