Pregnancy stages
40 weeks pregnant
Your Baby Your baby should be ready to greet you this week. When it’s born, your little girl or boy should weigh between 2.5kg and 3.8kg and be around 50cm long. Its lungs will finish their final stages of development shortly after birth, but all other organs are already raring to go. During labour, your… Read more…
39 weeks pregnant
Your Baby Between now and next week when you get to meet your baby for the first time, it will put on yet more fat to keep it warm. It will weigh somewhere between 2.5kg and 3.8kg by the end of week 40. New skin is forming on your baby as the old vernix caseosa… Read more…
38 weeks pregnant
Your Baby All of your baby’s organs are now ready to go, all, except the lungs. These are the very last organs to develop fully. In fact, your baby’s lungs won’t be full matured until a few hours after birth when it has had a chance to establish a normal breathing pattern and given its… Read more…
37 weeks pregnant
Your baby Your baby has made it to full term, although it won’t be another three weeks until you will meet him or her. It weighs around 2.8kg and will be almost half a metre, 50cm, in length. Most of the fat from now on will be deposited around your baby’s tummy, legs and arms…. Read more…
36 weeks pregnant
Your Baby Your baby is blossoming. It is gaining around 28 grams a day and now weighs 2.7kg or so. It has grown an extra centimetre in length, bringing it to 48cm from head to feet. The lanugo, the coating of fine hair that covered your baby to keep it warm, is now starting to… Read more…
35 weeks pregnant
Your Baby Fingernails and toenails are now formed and your baby’s kidneys are fully developed. The liver is just about ready to function on its own and can process some waste by itself. Your baby’s tiny pupils should be perfectly formed and will react to light just as yours do. 2.4kg is a ballpark figure… Read more…
34 weeks pregnant
Your Baby Your baby’s somersaulting days inside the womb are now over. At 2.2kg and 45cm long there simply isn’t any room left for large movements. With just six weeks to go your baby’s breathing and digestive systems should be ready to kick into action, so if you do have an early birth, your baby… Read more…
33 weeks pregnant
Your Baby By this stage your baby could be turning upside down and getting in position for birth. This is normal, so nothing to worry about. You may feel excessive movement as your baby does this. Some babies don’t like to lie head first and switch back to their original position a week or even… Read more…
