Pregnancy Week 35
Your baby is now completely ‘finished’ and is growing very fast. Baby is now about 18-19 inches and weighs about 5.25 pounds. The only organ that baby is still busy developing is the brain. But the brain’s enormous development continues after birth, too.
Has your baby ‘engaged’?
Your belly baby is still growing and that’s good. You will now feel the consequences of the last enormous growth spurt. If all is well, your baby’s head moves down and this will put pressure on your bladder. Just like at the beginning of your pregnancy it will probably send you to the toilet more often. When your baby moves down even more it gets ‘stuck’ behind the pelvic bone.
That is called being engaged. Your midwife or doctor will regularly check to see if baby has actually engaged. You may even be able to feel it yourself, for example if you sit on a bike. It’s as if you can almost feel the head between your legs. Don’t be concerned, it’s good your baby’s head has engaged. Then you know that baby will be born head first.
If your baby is not in the right position, the midwife or doctor will probably try and turn your baby this week.
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Pregnancy Week 1: Not really pregnant yet
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Pregnancy Week 2: The egg is fertilized!
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Pregnancy Week 3: Your body produces the hormone HCG
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Pregnancy Week 4: Time to take the test
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Pregnancy Week 5: Pregnancy ailments: nausea and tiredness
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Pregnancy Week 6: Your baby’s heart is beating!
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Pregnancy Week 7: Your womb makes room for baby
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Pregnancy Week 8: Frequent surprise visits from the Sandman
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Pregnancy Week 9: Your breasts prepare for breastfeeding
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Pregnancy Week 10: Take supplements for pregnant women
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Pregnancy Week 11: You can feel your womb
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Pregnancy Week 12: You can hear the heart beating
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Pregnancy Week 13: Your body is used to being pregnant
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Pregnancy Week 14: The fingers and toes take shape
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Pregnancy Week 15: Your baby bump is now a fetus
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Pregnancy Week 16: HCG makes way for the hormone progesterone
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Pregnancy Week 17: You can do sport, but avoid stomach exercises
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Pregnancy Week 18: Belly, bottom, breasts: your body is becoming rounder
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Pregnancy Week 19: Have heartburn? Eat healthy snacks
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Pregnancy Week 20: Can you feel your baby?
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Pregnancy Week 21: Your baby can hear
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Pregnancy Week 22: No need to eat for two
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Pregnancy Week 23: Your baby is as long as a ruler!
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Pregnancy Week 24: Avoid stress and get plenty of rest
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Pregnancy Week 25: Your baby has a different sleeping and waking rhythm
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Pregnancy Week 26: Round ligament pain - watch your posture
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Pregnancy Week 27: Your belly baby is aware of sounds
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Pregnancy Week 28: More frequent visits to the midwife
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Pregnancy Week 29: Starting to nest
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Pregnancy Week 30: Lower back and pelvic discomfort
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Pregnancy Week 31: You are sensitive and emotional
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Pregnancy Week 32: Your dreams are intense
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Pregnancy Week 33: Are you nesting?
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Pregnancy Week 34: Maternity leave
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Pregnancy Week 35: Has your baby's head engaged?
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Pregnancy Week 36: Discharge or amniotic fluid?
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Pregnancy Week 37-41: Your baby can be born…!