When you mark your 35th week, you're wrapping up month 8 of your pregnancy with only one more month left to go.

Your little one will be starting to make an exit plan by shifting to their heads down position, all while working on important preparations like building body fat and brain matter.

Your baby is standing all tall this week and they are about 18 inches. But at about 5¼ pounds, they're continuing steady weight gain: they would pack from 1 pound to many, which also includes amounts of baby fat, till the delivery day.

Fetal weight gain

You would remember that first sight of their little arms and legs, they have now developed and is now quite plump and irresistibly, squeezably soft.

Baby's skull remains soft

Something else that's developing is your baby's brainpower, the skull remains soft. The good reasons that the soft skull will allow to squeeze the baby more easily

Source: https://www.whattoexpect.com/pregnancy/week-by-week/week-35.aspx