32 Weeks Pregnant

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At 32 weeks pregnant, it's highly likely that your baby has already turned head-down in your uterus preparing for birth. Your baby is also getting better at regulating their body temperature—an important development for life outside the womb. Meanwhile, you may notice a change in your baby's movements as they have less room to move around.
32 Weeks Pregnant Is How Many Months? 8 months
At 32 weeks, a baby is over 11 1/2 inches (29.3 centimeters) from the top of their head to the bottom of their buttocks (known as the crown-rump length). The baby's height is about 16 1/4 inches (41.6 centimeters) from the top of their head to their heel (crown-heel length).1 This week, the baby weighs over 4 pounds (1,901 grams).2
About 97% of babies are born head first.3 As babies get closer to their birthday, they tend to turn upside down in the uterus to prepare. By 32 weeks, 85% of babies are in the head-down position.
Don't worry if your baby hasn't turned yet. Some babies wait a little longer. In fact, it can take up to 37 weeks for the full 97% to turn into position.4 Your provider will continue to monitor your baby's position at every prenatal visit.
Your baby started putting on brown fat (the type of fat needed to keep warm after leaving the womb) in the middle of the second trimester. At 32 weeks, your baby's body has also increased production of a protein and an enzyme necessary for generating body heat, which means they can now regulate their body temperature better.5
Most babies display the startle or Moro reflex by 32 weeks. A loud noise or a movement can cause the baby to appear startled, suddenly throw their arms and legs away from their body then bring them back in. Babies are born with the startle reflex, but it disappears a few months after birth.6
Your baby is also showing evidence of cycling through stages of sleep and wake times, and their brain activity now shows active sleep.7
At 32 weeks, babies reach a mini-milestone and move from the very preterm category to the moderate preterm category.8 Babies' lungs are continuing to develop at this stage, and they still need several more weeks to reach maturity.
Otherwise, babies are very much in the finishing-touches stage of development. However, a baby born at 32 weeks will still need several weeks of care in a special care nursery or NICU—but the survival rate for babies born at this stage is 99%.9
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As your baby is getting closer to maxing out space in your growing uterus, you might notice some changes in the way they move. Symptoms related to the size of your belly, like aches and pains and heartburn, may also be getting a little worse.
As your baby gets bigger, there's less room for them to move inside your uterus. You might begin to notice their formerly bold kicks becoming replaced with wiggles, squirms, knocks, and nudges. The type of movement you feel is not as important as feeling it.
If you notice a decrease in your baby's activity in general or during your daily kick counts, however, contact your provider right away.
If you haven't experienced heartburn during your pregnancy, it could still pop up. If you've been having it all along, it can get worse in the third trimester. On top of pregnancy hormones that slow digestion and make it easier for stomach acid to back up into the esophagus, your uterus is now big and heavy enough to put a lot of pressure on your stomach.
Heartburn occurs in around 22% of pregnancies in the first trimester, 39% in the second trimester, and up to 72% in the third trimester.10
At this point in pregnancy, you're likely splitting your time between managing discomfort and preparing for the baby's arrival. This week, you might want to start thinking about what you'd like to bring with you to the hospital for delivery day.
Heartburn can be plain uncomfortable or even painful. While you might not be able to avoid it entirely during pregnancy, diet and lifestyle changes may help.11 Here are some general tips you can try that can help alleviate heartburn:
Packing your hospital or birthing center bag can help you feel more prepared for your baby’s arrival. You might want to pack some items for the new little person you will be meeting. Just make sure that you know the hospital or birthing center's rules about dressing your baby in clothes you brought from home (as some do not allow you to do so).
Here are a few items you might want to gather and organize ahead of time. Before you get packing, find out what will be provided by your hospital or birthing center.
Continue taking your prenatal vitamins, eat healthy meals, and get a little exercise
Practice daily Kegel exercises
Start packing your hospital or birthing center bag and have your partner pack their hospital/birthing center bag
Make sure both you and your partner pack an overnight back. Even if you don’t plan to stay overnight, you might be there longer than you expect. Grab a duffle and think about adding the following for delivery day:
You might be back at your provider's office for another regular visit this week. You know the prenatal visit routine pretty well by now, which typically includes:
Just as your baby continues to grow late into your pregnancy, so do you. The recommended weight gain for people with a normal body mass index (BMI: 18.5—24.9) at the start of pregnancy is 25 to 35 pounds.12
In most cases, you should be gaining roughly a pound a week. Based on this loose guideline, you may have gained approximately 23 pounds from the start of your pregnancy to now. As each pregnancy is different, talk to your provider about how much weight you have gained to find out if you are on the right track.
Your provider may feel your belly to check the position of your baby. As you get closer to your due date, the baby should turn to the head-down position.
You will likely stay on an every-other-week visit schedule until you reach 36 weeks. At that point, most providers will want to see you every week until you deliver. Your next routine prenatal visit will likely be around 34 weeks.
A test for a bacteria called group B strep (GBS) is recommended between 36 and 38 weeks.13
If your pregnancy is considered high-risk, you are carrying more than one baby, or your provider wants to check on your baby's well-being, you might be scheduled for additional tests beginning at week 32.14
The fetal non-stress test (NST) monitors the baby's heart rate as they move. For this test, you are hooked up to an external fetal monitor. The baby's heart rate should go up when they move, but sometimes it takes a while to observe this pattern if the baby is sleeping.
When the test is reactive or shows two or more increases in heart rate in 20 to 40 minutes, it is a good sign that the baby is doing well. If the baby's heart rate doesn't go up or it goes down during the test, your provider will likely order more testing.
The biophysical profile (BPP) is offered after 32 weeks for high-risk pregnancies and those experiencing complications. It’s also sometimes given to pregnant people who have passed their due date.
BPP is painless. It starts with a detailed ultrasound during which the technician checks your amniotic fluid levels, the baby’s muscle tone, and movement of their body and breathing. Since digestion can stimulate these movements, you might be asked to eat a meal before you come in for the test.
The ultrasound is generally followed by a non-stress test, where the baby's heart rate and possible uterine contractions are monitored. For this portion, you’ll be asked to lay on your side while two monitoring belts are secured around your abdomen.
Your provider might instead call for a "modified biophysical profile," which is a combination of the non-stress test (NST) and a measurement of the amniotic fluid. After reviewing the results of the BPP or modified BPP, your provider will determine if it’s in your (and your baby’s) best interest to deliver earlier than planned.
The contraction stress test monitors how well your baby handles contractions. For this test, you are hooked up to a fetal monitor. If you aren't having contractions on your own, you may be asked to stimulate your nipples to induce contractions or you may be given a medication to start contractions.
Depending on the baby's response to your contractions, your provider will determine if the baby will be able to get enough oxygen during labor.
The doppler of the umbilical artery is an ultrasound of the umbilical cord to check the blood flowing to the baby. This umbilical artery brings oxygen to nutrients to the baby. An issue with blood flow might indicate a problem with the pregnancy or the baby's growth.
With just eight weeks to go before your expected due date, time may feel like it's simultaneously speeding up and slowing down. By now, you've probably become a pro at listening to your body—and don't stop now. Take your body's cues for when to slow down or power through and remember that in a few short weeks, you'll be nearing the finish line.
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Your baby is as big as a cantaloupe.
Medically Reviewed by Jennifer Wu, M.D., F.A.C.O.G. on June 24, 2021
Your baby is busy cultivating real-life tricks like sucking, breathing and swallowing.
And you may be doing some rehearsals of your own in the form of Braxton Hicks (or practice) contractions ahead of the big day.


At about 4 pounds and 16 to 19 inches long, your baby is curled up in, well, the fetal position. After all, there’s not much room left at this particular inn. Not to worry, though. She’s totally comfy in there — even if you’re not quite comfy out here.
As your baby hunkers down in your bunker to ride out the last few weeks of gestation, she’s probably settling into the most common birthing position: head down, bottom up. Anatomically it makes sense — she’s maximizing what little space she has by dropping her head into the bottom of your inverted pear-shaped uterus. It’s also natural since baby’s bean is heavier than her tiny tush.
With only 8 more weeks to go, your busy bee is gearing up for life outside the womb. Those breathing movements she’s been practicing? Well, they’re almost perfect now, changing from the short staccato bursts of only 10 seconds long to a more regular and rhythmic pattern that’ll eventually churn out 40 breaths per minute — the normal rate of a newborn.
These breathing lessons serve another purpose as well, encouraging the lungs to produce more surfactant — the protein that’ll help the lungs expand after birth and that is essential for healthy lung development.
Reinforcements for the monumental task of producing surfactant come from another source, too. The adrenal glands, located on top of the kidneys, are hard at working starting to pump out cortisol, which will in turn help stimulate more surfactant production. These workhorse glands are producing 10 times the amount of cortisol a normal adult produces…pretty amazing for someone so small!
Meanwhile, lanugo is continuing to shed, leaving only small patches of fuzz on the shoulders and back. Fingernails have grown almost long enough to be in need of a trim, but they’re still pretty soft. Baby might not need a mini-manicure just yet, but there’s no reason why you shouldn't treat yourself to one while you still have time. A pedicure, too — after all, bet you can’t see your toes.
All your baby’s major organs are fully developed now, except for the lungs. So even if you gave birth this week, your little one would probably do just fine.
Your baby inhales amniotic fluid to practice using those lungs.
Bye-bye, see-through baby! This week, your little bean's skin is now opaque instead of transparent.
If you're 32 weeks pregnant, you're in month 8 of your pregnancy. Only 1 month left to go! Still have questions? Here's some more information on how weeks, months and trimesters are broken down in pregnancy.
What's up with your baby? She's starting to get ready for her big debut, tipping the scales at 3½ to 4 pounds and topping out at 15 to 17 inches.
In these past few weeks, it's all about practice, practice, practice as she hones the skills she'll need to thrive outside the womb — from swallowing and breathing to kicking and sucking. In anticipation of that momentous transition to mouth feeding, your baby's digestive system is all set and ready to go.
And though you're weeks away from your due date, your baby's looking more and more like a newborn: As fat accumulates under her skin, it's no longer transparent and is now opaque.
At 32 weeks pregnant, you're likely feeling tapping and squirming instead of your baby's signature rocking and rolling. That's because, while comfy, your baby is a bit tight for exercise space right now — she’s actually back to a curled-up position (you try standing up in those cramped
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