Your baby now weighs over 5.5 pounds and its crown-to-rump length is approximately 13.2 inches. Your baby's total length is around 20.25 inches at this point. Your uterus is now 6 inches from the bellybutton and the average weight gain is approximately 24 to 29 pounds.
Most pregnant women begin to feel cramped and heavy around this time and often become tired of being pregnant. Some women feel like they do not have to room to breathe or eat. You should eat small, but frequent, meals and rest as often as you can throughout the day. Your cervix will begin to dilate and efface within the next few weeks to make room for your baby's head to emerge from the birth canal. Your cervix needs to be 10 cm dilated in order to deliver your baby.
This week of your pregnancy your baby's fingernails will have definitely reached the tips of his fingers. When your baby is born, his nails may look long and pointy. Your baby is less likely to scratch himself at this point because of the lack of room in the uterus. Fat deposition will still continue and your baby is getting chubbier and rounder. Your baby's shoulders are plump at this point.
twomarchbebes - 1.8 hours ago
My son turns two on March 31 and my c-section is on March 8. Are there any mothers in the same boat where you want to throw them a party or do something memorable but you're not sure what you're going to be able to do? I really don't want a huge party and lots of cleaning up when I'm still recovering from surgery but I don't want his birthday to suck either. Any ideas? Techer - Bub can drop down from around 35 weeks or not drop down at all until you're in labour, it's different for everyone. Mifirstbabyboy - I have been not sleeping and cleaning heaps too. But literally last week I could not get enough sleep. It's crazy what our bodies are doing to us. I am also trying to spend lots of quality time with my son since there is only three and a half weeks left of it just being him with us. :( Hope he handles it ok.
mifirstbabyboy - 2.6 hours ago
hi cantwait yay that is so cool..i thought mine was late too but the doc told me that would be best and i would make it and not to worry so i said ok and that is what i am doing i m not sure i m so scared i feel like we are going to have too many people we are having like a family/friend bbq baby shower thingy but i am not sure what kind of games i can play with so many people u know...any ideas???..congrats to ur friend that has to be a blessing bummer for not having a shower but she can still have one later maybe if she is up to it at least a welcome home baby party or something instead of baby shower u know congrats to her though i hope all is well....alright i am going to try and sleep although its not working so ttyl
cantwait3-11 - 3.2 hours ago
Mifirstbaby- ourshowers are the same day! I feel like mine is so late. I hope I make it.my hubbys co worker and I were dur the same day but she was pregnant with twins! Her shower was on Saturday but it got cancelled because of the stupid snow. Well anywho she had her babies last night! So much for her rescheduling for this coming Saturday! Lol. I hope my baby waits until after my shower.
mifirstbabyboy - 4.2 hours ago
so i have not slept much...been really cleaning house getting ready for baby shower on feb 20....becuz of not sleeping i am going to try this sleeptime tea and hope that it works for a little while we will see...so today i am so fustrated with someone it was like i been working part time and yet she has to tell me that i have not been and that to not expect to come to a schedule and that i m on call...bologne aaahh i m so mad at her i think ashe is just a jelous witch really...aahhh ok gonna drink tea and shower and hopefully i sleep better night night
mama-dearest - 5.5 hours ago
techer- sometimes your belly will look and feel different, for me I dropped last week and now my boobs don't rest on my belly anymore lol. You'll feel like your ribs aren't being so abused and achy, you may pee more often, it may be easier to breath now... don't worry though. It is normal to drop at this point and labor could still be weeks away.
techer - 5.9 hours ago
I think my baby dropped some but am not sure. What does it feel like for the first time moms? I have a lot of pelvic pressure, pain, and discomfort. Just worried since I have still 1.5 week to 37 weeks.
yummy-mommy - 6.6 hours ago
So I went back to the hospital cuz I was so worried about my blood pressure , they checked me for everything , and everything looks normal : ) my blood pressures now in the 130s which is still kinda high for me but they told me everything looks good : ) so hopefully no more panic attacks for me ...anywho just thought I'd let everyone know I'm fine and babys fine : )
164sWifey - 6.8 hours ago
Cantwait-ugh sorry but I'd ditch the friend... :-) honestly I've found along the way that my friends are not the best and not supportive as I am with them. What you're doing for her, will she do it for you? I've helped a lot of friends, in differnt ways, now I realize they're not there for me. So, I just keep to myself and honestly wanna find new friends. It depends, but I hope she realizes how she's being as well. On a good note, I have my 36 week appt tomorrow!!!:-) we got out breast pump today, and well all I need to do is pack and grab som maxi pads! Ha ha feeling a little better today...aside no sleep, constantly peeing, back pain...etc, etc!
kimmc73 - 7.2 hours ago
kristymumof4- It sounds like what I had with my first.... it was called PUPPP. It is an itchy rash that covers your body except for your breast and your face. Mine was so bad I had to see a dermatologist. Just a heads up it will get agitated and flare up with hear and water- so showers may not be the best way to take away the itch. Good luck!
dooney25 - 7.8 hours ago
I haven't been eating much, my appetite has really slowed down. I get a lot of heartburn so I don't get hungry. It's so weird because with my first I could eat a whole house.
babsie79 - 8.3 hours ago
cantwait- oh goodness girl!! umm, i would definatley not go with her. sounds like a complainer. nothing worse than traveling with a complainer..now granted i was complaining on our travels to our port only because we had bad weather and i didnt want to miss our ship!!! but once we got there, RELAXATION no complaints out of me!! i dont even know your friend and she is driving me crazy and not even because of me being preggo either! i say find someone else to go with, do what you want to do. :-) that is just me though!!! is there someone else that can go with you that you would actually have fun going with???
cantwait3-11 - 9.9 hours ago
babsie and charx3- she asked about it again today. and her main reason for wanting to go to vegas is so she can gamble!!!!!! OMG!!!! im trying to tell her they have casinos on the ship!!! she doesnt want to go to any of the shows in vegas, so im like hell whats the point?!?! and with me being pregnant, my patience is short! and she keeps on saying her grandma had sooooo much fun! im like that was her only time ever goin on a plane somewhere!! i feel a gray hair growin. but i think i would prefer to go with someone else because my bf is the type that is VERY CLOSED MINDED. she says that terriyaki chicken is weird! sweet and sour chicken is weird! beef roast has too many vegetable in it!she only eats chicken because turkey is dry, seafood gived her a headache, beef is too hard to cook, and pork is just ok! OMG! this just might be a blessing in disguise! lol
gobliness - 10.4 hours ago
Thanks guys :) it's my partners turn to bath her tonight...let's see how he goes!! Hee hee!!
kristymumof4 - 10.5 hours ago
thanks ladys i think it is hives but im going to doctor today at 12 just to be sure thanks all im of to week 36 see you all soon
Mama Bri - 10.5 hours ago
Only 5 more weeks to go and it feels like forever. Feel like making some chocolate chip cookies but the question is...Do i have the energy? Listening to my sister complain about where she is.....is it bad that i don't care about what she is going threw?
Charx3 - 12.1 hours ago
Cantwait, I've been to vegas and on a carribean cruise. I would take the cruise again way over vegas! Vegas is very expensive and a cruise you get to see soooo much more! I'm sure your friend would understand if you tell her!
babsie79 - 12.9 hours ago
hello ladies-baby shower went awesome for the most part. very grateful for the gifts that we received, but at the same time was frustrated because people didnt stick to the registry! what is the point of doing that when people dont look at it anyways?? either way i think i am going to write a blog about it.... finally got our stroller travel system yesterday... feel much better that i have it now. just never know when he is going to show up! CANTWAIT--- girlfriend, i would totally do the cruise!! vegas i think is wayy overrated and overpriced. cruising is the best! but i understand trying to keep with what you and your friend planned, but you know what? plans can be changed. we went on one last april.. we went to grand cayman, montego bay and cozumel... we had a blast!!!! oh wow and now i want to go again and again... eventhough that one in april was my 3rd cruise..and oh yes, mr peyton will be cruising with us when he gets big enough!!! go with the cruise, that is all i'm sayin. :-)
GatorMommy - 13.2 hours ago
Well that's frustrating :p yeah just call the hospital, especially since you're panicky. I def would too
yummy-mommy - 13.5 hours ago
Gatormommy , I wish I could do that but the only way I can check my blood pressure is to go to the mall so that won't really work lol . And everytime I phone my doctors they tell me to make a apointment they won't let me talk over the phone . So I think I'm just gonna go back to the hospital and see if they can give me somthing , cuz I'm having major panic attacks about it
GatorMommy - 13.8 hours ago
Yummy-mommy what I would do is lay down for an hour or so, drink lots of water and then go check your blood pressure again. If it's still high call your dr and see what they want to do. They might want you to come in again and get monitored. At least you know it isn't pre-eclampsia, so they may just prescribe you some BP medication or something. But from my experience when this happened to me, its better to talk to a dr and put your mind at ease than sit and worry!
mama-dearest - 14 hours ago
charx- Sorry, that has got to be miserable and frustrating. Just a few more days and they won't stop our labor anymore. That's what I keep telling myself anyways.
Charx3 - 14.5 hours ago
Hi ladies, its my last day in week 35, but had to share a horrid exp I had yesterday!! At 9:30 started having contractions out of the blue at 6 min apart. Called the troops out to watch my son then called hubby. Took a shower and still 6 mins apart so drove myself to the dr to get checked. Got there about 11am, still having contractions they hooked me up to the machine. about 20 mins later they decided to check me, contractions are 3 to 4 mins apart at this point. NOTHING was happening, apparently I'm not even dilated and my cervix is still long but soft. So being 35 weeks 4 days they gave me pills to stop my 'non productive' labor. It slowed them down in frequency but they got stronger. It started to become back labor UGH. Never had that with either of my other 2! They gave me the pill at 1pm, by 2:30 the contractions were back to normal frequency wise but much stronger. Dr checked me again and still nothing was happening. (talk about frustrating!!) so another pill and sent home with a prescript to take them every 6 hrs till my appointment on wed for 36 week check. Problem is the pills give me a horrid migraine! I called them this morning and told them I would rather feel the 'unproductive labor' than get the migraine and didnt want to take the pills anymore! Contractions have stopped for now so I dont have to take them unless they start up again, thank God! I feel like my body has been hit by a Mack truck today though so I'm just taking it easy all day! Hopefully I will be able to hold off on the pills and tomorrow Dr will take me off them for good. Feels like it wont be long till she is here though and I'm thankful for that! Have had horrid BH since thurs anyway UGH and i lost my mucus plug friday night! Sorry for rambling! Hope you are all well!!
mrsmacd - 14.6 hours ago
yummy-mommy; breath deeply, don't yell when you're angry, keep calm. If you don't have pre-ecclampsia then the high blood pressure may not affect you at all, just try to relax and keep it down, because it could lead to preecclampsia.
yummy-mommy - 14.8 hours ago
I check my blood pressure again at zellers hours later at it was 158/80 so I don't think its just from me panicking cuz I don't think it would be that high like 9 hours later. And the nurse said I don't have preeeclampsia cuz I don't have any of the symptoms besides the blood pressure , I'm trying not to panic but I can't help it . I'm actully really scared
mrsmacd - 15.3 hours ago
I made lunch. Ha ha, take that! lol. I put a cup of rice in with the watery salty vegetable soup for a delicious entre! Yum and the kids are nearly done. If only I could drag supper out of what's left also. :/
mrsmacd - 15.4 hours ago
PRIMERBEBE2010; I had that with my third child it was a complication/side effect of having enzymes in my liver. :(
PRIMERBEBE2010 - 15.7 hours ago
TOMORROW I HAVE MY DOCTOR APP! IM GETTING NERVOUS BECAUSE IS MY FIRST BABY AND IM FEELING ALL THIS THINGS THAT I DONT KNOW WHAT THEY ARE OR IF THEY ARE NORMAL!!!! BUT I HAVE TO THANK THIS PAGE AND ALL OF YOU LADIES FOR ALL THE WORDS THAT YOU GUYS ALWAYS GIVE OUT TO EVERYBODY!!!! SOMETIMES THE WORDS MIGHT NOT BE FOR ME PERSONALY BUT FOR SOMEONE ELSE AND IT HELPS ME TO KNOW IM NOT THE ONLY CRANKY PREGNANT WOMAN IN THE WORLD!!!!
THANK YOU ALL
PRIMERBEBE2010 - 15.9 hours ago
OMG!!!! ITCHING LADIES I HAVE MY HOLE BODY ITCHING LIKE HELL BUT MY DIFERENCE AT LEAST YOU GUYS CAN SEE THE LIL RED DOTS!!!! BUT I DONT HAVE THAT AND MY DOCTOR DID A COUPLE OF BLOOD TEST AND TOLD ME THE NAME BUT I CANT REPEAT IT!!! TOO HARD!!! BUT IT WILL GO AGAY AS SOON AS I HAVE THE BABY THE ITCHING WILL GO AWAY!!! THEY ARE MANY PREGNANCY ITCHES BUT THEY GO AWAY WITH IN THE NEXT 24 TO 48 HRS AFTER THE BABY IS BORN!!!! SO IT IS NORMAL!!!!
DONT WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT IT EVEN DO I KNOW IT HITCHES LIKE HELL REMEMBER THAT WE ARE ALMOST 4 WEEKS AGO FROM HAVING THE BABY AND MAYBE SOONER!!!
mrsmacd - 17 hours ago
Okay needing to complain so block your ears/skip this long blog. ha ha. I feel sooooo large. My rib cage is still feeling crushed/squeezed and thus hurts to heck, and I feel naseous and tired beyond tired and I feel like I'm not doing enough with my children, even though they're quite happily playing together in the living room and don't seem to know that I should be spending time with them. I'm getting contractions more often and sometimes more painful, but I don't think this is it yet, because they aren't painful enough, or frequent enough. I want my hair washed again but I'm embarrassed to go to the lady who I got to wash it last time because she thinks I should get it cut and I'd like to but I keep it for my husband who loves it because I love him, and he's so good to me. I don't want her thinking my husband is a bad man or controlling because he's not. I also need to do grocery shopping with my children today and all I want to do is sleeeep but we're really out of everything except some weird stuff (like ten cans of salmon, five cans of apple juice, some escargots, a can of cream of mushroom soup, some gravy, some frozen cranberries, a bag of frozen spagetti vegetables, a bag of onions, some pasta, a bag of milk, some orange juice, two cans of oversalted overwatered vegetable soup, a bag of baby carrots, some rice, a few saltines, a bag of dry kidney beans and some lentils.) lol.
christi21 - 18.1 hours ago
Kristymumof4-hey girl for the past month or so I have had little tiny pink dots there not all over but there's a few here and there.and they itch soooo.... Bad.I get them on my belly,legs,and thighs.they suck but as long as I dnt itch they r tolerable lol.my doc didn't knw wat it was he said just don't itch but that's easier said than done at night,in my sleep.hope urs goes away.it may just b a preg thing..thank god we r almost done!
cantwait3-11 - 18.3 hours ago
Ok so we got 24in of snow on Saturday, but now they're sayin were goin to 15 MORE INCHES!!!!!!!! OMG!!!!
mandarae - 18.4 hours ago
gobliness - thank you so much for sharing your pics. Lillian is for sure, a complete doll! All that goregous dark hair!!! Yay!!
mandarae - 18.7 hours ago
twomarchbebes - thats the day my c-sec is schdeuled for too! Yay!! (I just posted a FUNNY blog on my page - it was a forward I got today. All the moms with children already are seriously going to laugh!!!!)
mrsmacd - 19 hours ago
kristymumof4; hives look like little red dots, sometimes they can swell to the point where they all merge and look like one horrible welt. I often get hives in the spring when my body is stressed from all the molds etc. One year the hives were triggered by the sun, my doctor took his finger and ran it down my arm and where he did there was a welt! One huge hive. Scratching hives makes them worse and can spread them, so don't.
mama-dearest - 19.2 hours ago
gobliness- she is so precious! It's weird to me seeing other babies that are born during this week, or even full term. I still have a hard time grasping the fact that those little things are inside of us....even after having a baby before. Anywho, Congrats again mama!
mrsmacd - 19.3 hours ago
Gobliness; she's soooo beautiful! There are tears in my eyes! I watched the little movie of her bath. Oh, my goodness, what a dolly!
2ndbabe - 19.5 hours ago
oooh twomarchbebes I'm booked in for the 9th and same situation emergency's take priority which is totally understandable - it sgetting really close isn't it good luck with everything I'll be thinking of you x
Gobliness - 22.1 hours ago
Piccies of my Lillian are up - go to http://primarycore.homelinux.net/lillian My partner put the page up so please excuse all the irrelevant stuff :)
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twomarchbebes - 22.8 hours ago
Well I found out this afternoon my baby is officially booked in for my c-section on the 8th March! It could happen anytime during the day but that's ok. I'm really excited. That gives me like three weeks and five days to go until I meet my little girl. Woot!
due13March2010 - 23.3 hours ago
kristy - i had a rash from 26 weeks until 34 weeks. it was so itchy. had to shower three times a day (and sometimes during the middle of the night). had to use cortizone cream (1%) and polaramine (antihistamine) tablets. i had 5 blood tests for cholestasis (whcih came back negative). have one more blood test tomorrow. it has only just started to subside, but i'm still taking a polarmine tablet during the night (when it seems to itch more). Hope that helps?
sammy1106 - 23.4 hours ago
kristymumof4- could be an itchy harmless rash- google pupp, hope this helps
amanda4964 - 23.5 hours ago
kristymumof4- hives look sort of like little mosquito bites and they are itchy. My daughter gets them if she eats eggs (she has an allergy)
kristymumof4 - 1 days ago
well had my 36 week check today didnt get a scan or nothing they said they dont do them anymore so if hes big hes big and they will deal with that when he come ok for them to say i went to hell and back with my first to kids 17hour labour and 13 hour labour they got stuck and all some doctors piss me of they dont care its not them going thro this and if life couldnt be any worse atm i think ive got hives i have dots itchy ones all over my legs and belly dose anyone no what hives look like mine are little red dots that itch bad
linnea d - 1 days ago
i dont post much but man o man am i ready for this baby to come! it has to be natures way. we get sooo uncomfortable and hurt EVERYWHERE and so sick of being preggo to the point where we dont care about the labor pain or how the baby comes out just as long as it COMES OUT!... at least thats how im feeling!!
cantwait3-11 - 1 days ago
I have a non pregnancy related question. My 21st bday is on April 13th and my best friends is July 16th. I've been sayin that i wanted to go to Vegas for my bday for a couple yrs now. I brought it up to her last fall about us goin together in July that way my body can heal and baby won't be weeks old like in april. But soon after I suggested this, I found a cruise where we would go to ocho Rios, Jamaica; grand Cayman, Cayman islands; and Oaks Roatan, Hondoras (sp) for about the same price as the Vegas trip. I would so much rather go three places than to go one. And on a cruise, everything except drinks, gifts, and the casino is included. But Vegas, we gotta payfor the room, a car, all the shows, the casinos, food, sight seeing, everything! But my best friend really wants to go to Vegas but I dont want to. Am i being selfish and how do I handle this situation?
cantwait3-11 - 1 days ago
Mama bri- a lot of times now I don't feel baby move as much as I see my belly move. So look at ur belly too. but its ok, its tight in there.
Mama Bri - 1 days ago
A little bit of movement but not much but i am trying to stay stress free that seems to be helping a lot
dooney25 - 1 days ago
mama bri- babies at this stage don't move as much as they did due to lack of space. I've been running around all day and I barely felt the baby move. Once I sat down and relax the little one started putting up a show. Try to eat some ice cream or lay on your back for just a little a see what happens.
sana1 - 1 days ago
Hi, wat's diffrence btw. dischargess and mucus plug?? cus i usully hv some idscharges but nowits like when i walk alot my back pain gets worse and i get a thicker discharges it loooks kinda diffrend..hmmmm???
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