Week 27  ·  Second trimester

Week 27, gently.

A needle-felted wool a cabbage

Your baby is the size of

a cabbage

  • 36.6 cm long
  • 875 g

Your baby has regular sleep cycles — and their own dreams, probably.

“Dreams begin before memory does.”

What’s happening inside

The baby now has regular sleep-wake cycles. Brain activity during sleep resembles REM — which means, probably, early dreams.

A warm watercolor illustration of a 27-week fetus

How you might feel

The final week of the second trimester. Your uterus is now about the size of a volleyball.

A warm watercolor illustration of week 27 of pregnancy