During pregnancy, your amazing baby grows from poppy seed to pumpkin. Isn't it incredible that something the size of a grape can turn your world upside downwards? To become a sense of baby size by week, check out our baby fruit size guide comparing your baby's approximate length and weight to fruits and vegetables. Nosotros've used official averages for baby growth by calendar week and produce sizes.
The next time you walk through the grocery shop, spend a few minutes perusing the produce aisle. Though it may seem odd to compare your infant to something edible, it'southward a practice that goes back centuries. In olden times, people used mutual agronomical items (similar seeds, nuts, and fruits) to gauge the size of babies in the womb. These days we have more variety – including fruits and veggies from around the world. BabyCenter'south baby fruit size comparisons were the first on the Web, started in 1997 by staffers who noticed that parents call babies-to-be "little peanut" or "footling bean" and ran with the concept.
Your pregnancy may be detectable in a week or so past a home pregnancy exam.
Read more than most what's happening at 4 weeks pregnant.
Your baby now looks more like a tiny tadpole than a human.
Read more about what'south happening at v weeks pregnant.
Your little lentil is now nigh 1/4 inch long.
Read more near what's happening at 6 weeks pregnant.
Your baby has doubled in size since last calendar week and is at present about 1/2 inch long.
Read more about what's happening at 7 weeks pregnant.
Your little bean is at present just over 1/2 inch long and is constantly moving and shifting.
Read more well-nigh what's happening at 8 weeks pregnant.
Your babe now weighs a fraction of an ounce and is almost 1 inch long. His optics are fully formed but his eyelids will be fused shut until 27 weeks.
Read more about what's happening at 9 weeks meaning.
Your baby at present weighs less than a quarter of an ounce and is a little over 1 inch long from head to bottom.
Read more about what'due south happening at 10 weeks pregnant.
At merely over one 1/2 inches long from head to lesser, your baby is still teeny-tiny – so while she'southward already boot and stretching, you won't experience her acrobatics for some other calendar month or two.
Read more almost what's happening at 11 weeks meaning.
Your lime-sized little one now weighs 1/two ounce and is just over two inches long from caput to bottom.
Read more than about what'southward happening at 12 weeks pregnant.
Your little peapod is now almost 3 inches long from head to bottom and weighs virtually an ounce.
Read more about what's happening at thirteen weeks significant.
Your babe – now weighing roughly i 1/two ounces and measuring about 3 1/2 inches from head to bottom – can squint, frown, grimace, pee, and possibly suck her thumb.
Read more about what's happening at fourteen weeks pregnant.
The futurity apple of your middle now weighs well-nigh two ane/ii ounces and is iv inches long from head to lesser.
Read more almost what'south happening at xv weeks significant.
Your baby now weighs 3 1/2 ounces and is about four ane/ii inches long from caput to lesser.
Read more well-nigh what's happening at xvi weeks pregnant.
Your little turnip now weighs about 5 ounces and is roughly five inches long from head to lesser.
Read more near what'south happening at 17 weeks pregnant.
Your infant at present weighs well-nigh 7 ounces and is roughly 5 1/2 inches long from caput to bottom. If yous're having a girl, her uterus and fallopian tubes are formed and in place. If yous're having a male child, his genitals are noticeable now, but he may hide them from you lot during an ultrasound.
Read more about what's happening at 18 weeks pregnant.
Your tomato-sized baby now weighs about viii 1/two ounces and is roughly 6 inches long from head to bottom.
Read virtually your baby's evolution at 19 weeks.
Your burgeoning baby now measures about half dozen 1/2 inches from caput to lesser or x inches from head to heel, and weighs roughly 10 1/2 ounces.
Yous may wonder why you're seeing two length measurements this calendar week. Until 20 weeks of pregnancy, babies are measured from the top of their head to their "rump." That's considering their legs are curled up against their torso during the first half of pregnancy, so they're hard to measure. Starting next week, y'all'll see only the head-to-heel measurement.
Editors' annotation: As much time as we spent at the farmer's marketplace and on the USDA site, information technology wasn't easy to find the perfect produce for every week of evolution. The banana is but an approximation of length.
Read more than about what's happening at 20 weeks pregnant.
Your carrot-sized cutie is at present roughly 10 1/2 inches from head to heel and weighs most 12 ounces.
Editors' notation: Nosotros know what y'all're thinking – "At that place's no manner my baby is the size of a carrot. I experience ginormous!" You're right that your infant is bulkier than a carrot, but the caput-to-heel length is similar to a good-sized carrot.
Read more about what's happening at 21 weeks significant.
At close to xi inches and almost 1 pound, your baby is starting to look like a miniature newborn as her lips, eyelids, and eyebrows get more than distinct.
Read more near what'due south happening at 22 weeks pregnant.
Your baby now weighs just over a pound and is more than 11 inches long – and if you lot plough on some tunes and sway to the music, he can feel you trip the light fantastic toe.
Read more about what'south happening at 23 weeks pregnant.
Your infant is now almost a foot long from head to heel and has gained near 1/4 pound since last week and now weighs about 1 1/4 pounds.
Read more about what'due south happening at 24 weeks pregnant.
Your baby at present rivals the average rutabaga in weight – most 1 1/two pounds – and is roughly 13 1/2 inches long from head to heel.
Read more about what's happening at 25 weeks pregnant.
Your infant, now about 14 inches from caput to heel and roughly one 2/3 pounds, may be able to hear both your voice and the voices of people you talk to.
Read more than about what's happening at 26 weeks meaning.
Your babe is now every bit hefty as a head of cauliflower, weighing in at about 2 pounds and measuring roughly 14 1/2 inches.
Read more than nearly what'due south happening at 27 weeks pregnant.
Your baby now weighs nigh ii ane/iv pounds, is nearly xv inches long from head to heel, and tin glimmer her eyes (which now sport lashes).
Read more than almost what'due south happening at 28 weeks pregnant.
Your baby now weighs about 2 i/2 pounds and is a tad over 15 inches long from head to heel.
Read more nearly what's happening at 29 weeks pregnant.
Your babe tips the scales this week at iii pounds and is fifteen 3/iv inches long from caput to heel.
Read more about what'due south happening at 30 weeks pregnant.
Your infant now weighs almost 3 ane/3 pounds and measures more than 16 inches from head to heel.
Read more about what's happening at 31 weeks pregnant.
Your baby is taking up more than and more space in your uterus, weighing in at about 3 3/4 pounds and measuring 16 3/four inches from head to heel.
Read more about what'due south happening at 32 weeks pregnant.
Measuring 17-plus inches from head to heel and weighing a footling over 4 pounds, your baby is rapidly losing that wrinkled, alien await, and his skeleton is hardening.
Read more than about what's happening at 33 weeks pregnant.
Your melon-sized munchkin now weighs about 4 3/4 pounds and is almost 18 inches long from head to heel.
Read more about what'due south happening at 34 weeks pregnant.
Your baby, at present weighing in at 5 1/iv pounds and measuring more than 18 inches, doesn't have much room to maneuver in your belly.
Read more about what's happening at 35 weeks pregnant.
Your non-so-little lettuce at present measures more than than 18 ane/2 inches from head to heel and weighs almost half-dozen pounds (and is all the same packing it on at a rate of about an ounce a day).
Read more nigh what's happening at 36 weeks pregnant.
Your baby measures roughly xix inches from head to heel and weighs nearly six one/iii pounds.
Read more well-nigh what'southward happening at 37 weeks pregnant.
Your lanky leek is now more than 19 ane/2 inches long from head to heel and weighs almost 7 pounds.
Read more about what'due south happening at 38 weeks pregnant.
Your baby now weighs a bit over 7 pounds and is roughly twenty inches long from head to heel.
Read more than about what'due south happening at 39 weeks pregnant.
Your niggling pumpkin could arrive whatever twenty-four hours now, if he or she isn't here already. The average newborn weighs most 7 i/ii pounds and is almost 20 inches long.
Read more than well-nigh what's happening at 40 weeks pregnant.
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