Most common pregnancy symptoms at this stage are backaches, leg cramps, and other pains that come with the final weeks of pregnancy. You may also experience preeclampsia which manifests as a swelling in your ankles and feet, and sometimes in your face and hands. The pregnancy hormones usually cause this swelling for meeting the growing baby’s needs. You must consume plenty of water and keep your feet in a heightened position to relieve swelling. While most of the symptoms will vanish after

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Around the 29th week of gestation the baby starts growing rapidly. The baby is continuing to gain weight, and his/her head is also growing in size. This is because of the fact that rapid brain development begins in week 28. Muscles and lungs also continue to develop and mature. Your baby weighs 2 ¾ pounds and measures 14 ½ inches.

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Your baby’s brain is really beginning to develop into a more complex organ around the 28th week of gestation. Grooves and indentions develop along the surface of the baby’s brain and it no longer looks smooth as before. From the 28th week onwards the amount of brain tissue also begins to increase.
Eyebrows and eyelashes become visible. The hair on your baby’s head grows even longer. The fat storage under the skin also develops during this phase which makes the baby look rounder. This is an important part of development that will continue through the

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