Pregnancy week by week

You

The last third of the pregnancy starts. Your lung volume becomes smaller and smaller and you start easily gasping. The increased uterus presses on the chest and hinders the lungs to fill with air within full scope. But do not worry – this is not hazardous for you or your baby, you both get sufficiently oxygen. It could happen that when you sneeze, laugh, train, run or struggle in some other way, you might feel that your trousers are wet. Such leakage of urine might be embarrassing, but this is nothing extraordinary. This might happen in the course of the whole pregnancy period.

Your baby

Your baby weighs about 875 g and is almost 37 cm tall. Its eyes can open and close now and the retinas will start to form. The brain of your baby continues fast development and is very active. The lungs have not fully developed, but these could function with medical help. If your baby is born this week, its survival probability would be 75%, although it would need incubator to keep its body temperature adjusted and its liver and immune system would be quite weak.

What to do?

The so-called leakage can be avoided, if you train the muscles around pelvic bottom, vagina and urethra. The exercise is simple and this could be done at any time. Tighten the muscles which help you stop the urine flow during pee. Keep this pressure for 8-10 seconds at a time and do it for 50 times in a row. The described exercise is by the way very good training when preparing for delivery.  If the blood pressure rises, you have eyesight disorders, headache and oedemas and the latter symptoms do not disappear by the next morning, this could be pre-eclampsia. In this case consult immediately with your doctor.

Have you already been to fetal 3D/4D ultrasound test?