At 28 weeks pregnant, your baby is the size of a cucumber. Heidi Murkoff from the What To Expect When You’re Expecting series takes you through what you need to know at this point in your pregnancy.
Your baby is settling into the position for birth, weighing around 2.5 pounds and measuring 16 inches long. Dreaming about your baby at 28 weeks pregnant? Your baby may be dreaming about you, too, as brain wave activity measured in a developing fetus shows different sleep cycles and rapid eye movement.
It’s week 28 and from here on out, there will start to be small differences in the rate of growth depending on whether your baby-to-be is a boy or girl. A bouncing blue bruiser is likely to grow bigger and heavier than a princess playing on team pink. Genetics and other factors also weigh on how fast a baby grows and how big she will ultimately be on arrival.
So, while on average a 28-weeker is around two and a half pounds and almost 16 inches tall, your little one maybe currently longer, shorter, heavier, or less tubby. As long she continues to get good reports at those prenatal checkups, you can rest assured your baby’s on the right track and in the right range for growth.
Your minute miracle has added another trick to her repertoire: hiccupping. If you haven’t yet, you’ll not only be able to feel hiccups on the inside, as little rhythmic twitches, you’ll be seeing them on the outside too, making your belly shake like a bowl of jelly. These tiny spasms are thought to be caused by the sudden, irregular contraction of the immature diaphragm, which is still trying to gear up for life outside the womb by practicing the ins and outs of breathing.
Some babies hiccup several times a day, every day, others not so much, but you’re bound to feel those adorable twitches every so often. And an ultrasound might even be able to pick up that little chest heaving from the hiccups, too. Entertaining for you and happily not uncomfortable for baby.
Another activity that can be picked up is REM or rapid eye movement. Those tiny flutters of baby’s eyes suggest that she’s dreaming away, since REM is considered the “dream” phase of sleep, but there’s no way of knowing what’s on your little one’s mind or what, if anything, she might be dreaming of. What we do know is that sleep cycles are coming at more regular times, meaning your sweet sleepyhead is developing a more regular pattern of sleeping and wakefulness.
Problem is, your on-the-go movements lull her to sleep during the day, keeping her awake and raring to go just when you’re settling down for the night. Still, there’s nothing more satisfying than feeling your amazing miracle summersault and stretch inside of you. Plus, as they say, baby’s keeping you up with those antics now is good preparation for after she’s born and when every night’s a night to howl.
Want more satisfaction? Though the bun in your oven is far from being fully baked, her chances of survival outside the womb are at least 90 percent at this point.
Scary baby, looks like grandpa.
28 weeks today with my First daughter cant wait to meet her. Congrats to all the 2019 Mothers!
Benjamin Button?
Im having a boy so say HE
28 weeks pregnant with my first baby girl cant wait !!
I am 28 weeks today baby # 2❤️
I love babies and all but why did they make this baby look like a grown man ? 🧐
Congratulations to all mums to be. I’m a first time mum am 28 weeks now I will be having a baby girl. But I feel so tired sometimes I could hardly do anything. What can be the cause?
Whisk creepy baby is that? Yeesh!
28 weeks today😊😊 can't wait for my baby boy.
28 weeks n 2 days Today
28 weeks 1-26-2020.
28 weeks and 2 days with baby #3 💞💞💞
Baby is having weeds
These comments 😂😂
Damn that baby looks like a grown man 🤣
I’m due 6/6! ❤️
Twenty Eight weeks cant wait to hv my twins…ooooh praise the Lord..
It kind of annoys me they say she all the time. I am having a boy!
Due July 21st with my first child I can’t wait to meet my daughter ❤️
28 weeks yesterday so happy I'm in a safer zone than a few weeks ago!! 💕
She is literally talking from the side of her neck the entire video & the baby looks like he is addicted to smack! 😂
Happy mothers to all …2020.
GIRL, enough with the face injections and cosmetic surgery!!
The animated baby looks scary!! How many of you felt the same??
Baby looking like he should have a tall boy and Marlboro reds in his hands
That baby been here before
This baby’s face is making me scared of my own baby lol
28 weeks today people I’m pregnant with my first daughter in 2020 lockdown parent
28weeks 2days today 🙏
Baby look like he smoke cigar 😭
Just checking to see what my baby girl is doing right now! Im due September 24th! Good luck to all the mamas ☺️ P.S the fetus face on this was scary af 😟
28 weeks today due September 21!!!!!!!!!!! Can’t wait to meet my baby boy
Im over this sh**
28 weeks today with baby girl #2 so funny because this is when I found out I was pregnant with my first daughter
28 weeks for first time mama. Can't wait for my baby Boy 😙😗😙😗
This baby looks like Benjamin Button 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I thought all the comments about how creepy the baby was were being dramatic, until I saw it. 💀💀💀
That baby looks like Jeff Lowe from The Tiger King.
28 weeks and I can't wait for my dearest little sunshine of a daugther to come, my first child.
I am currently 28weeks now can’t wait to meet my bundle of joy in December. congratulations to my 2020 mothers #2020quarantinebaby
I am a kid me seeing👁👄👁me:WOW
These comments 🤣 congratulations to all 💕 and to a safe, healthy delivery 💚
1:34 is that an alien
Creepy baby
Oh my goodness that baby is so old 🤭🤭
That baby’s face is like the chiseled version of squidward
I don't like you lady and your weird truck load of lipstick 💄