Pregnancy week by week

You

You might feel how the baby’s head presses against the pelvic bones and complicates your movement and changing of position related to it. You might not be able to stand up from the sofa or bed independently. Try to turn yourself to the side and then sit and thereon stand up. If you feel strange buzz in your feet and area of pelvis, this might mean that the baby’s head presses on the nerves of the area of pelvis.

Your baby

Your baby weighs now about 3500 g and is about 48 cm tall. The baby still continues to practice breathing and pees into the amniotic fluid. It can grasp strongly, although there is nothing more in the stomach except oneself and umbilical cord for attaching.

Dr. Marek Šois recommends

Although you are already expecting surely impatiently the birth of the newborn, enjoy the last moments of being alone. Do something exciting with your partner, it is later complicated to find time for this. Do not be afraid that you might miss the beginning of birth. When the real labour pains start, you will recognize these. The labour pains start usually from the upper part of the uterus and transfer to the lower back and pelvic bone. The pains become increasingly stronger and more frequent and these could not be mitigated by changing your posture. If you still doubt you could call to your gynaecologist or midwife for the sake of certainty.

If you feel that the baby moves more in the lower stomach or if the midwife suspects that the baby is not in the head-down position, you might be interested in our fetal ultrasound of the third trimester to assess the fetal growth and position.