Your Baby: The Beginning Of Braxton Hicks

Your growing fetus weighs in at around 1 pound and measures approximately 10 to 11 in length. Her body is well proportioned, but it still slender, with little fat. She's also sporting new developments from head to toe: her fingernails are almost completely developed; meconium, the baby's first bowel movement, is forming in her intestines; and the lanugo that covers her body is darkening. You're probably feeling a lot of movement and may even notice some early, relatively painless contractions, called Braxton Hicks. Don't worry -- these contractions don't mean you're going into labor, and your baby is unaffected by them.