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you are in week

36.

of your pregnancy

Size

ca. 46.5 cm

groß

Weight

ca. 2700 g

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How is your baby growing?

At 36 weeks of pregnancy, your baby's development is largely complete. Now it's time for your baby to turn and slide into your pelvis with its head down. If this has not happened yet, your gynecologist will give you advice on how to encourage it to turn, or will do so themselves.  

Slowly, your baby is 'cleaning' itself for birth: the protective vernix and lanugo hair gradually disappear and the baby's soft, pink skin appears. To ensure that the baby's skin is beautiful and firm, your baby is gaining weight again: about 200 grams per week during the last four weeks.  
If your baby is born now, it will be a premature baby and will be fully viable without medical care. 

How is your belly growing?

Your uterus has reached its highest point in the 36th week of pregnancy and is located with its upper end at chest level. With the contractions you are now feeling, the uterus begins to descend again.  

Your baby's position may cause discomfort such as nausea and frequent urination. As your baby now has very little space in your belly, its movements are clearly less frequent, but sometimes intense and especially visible. Your belly becomes deformed when its little feet or elbows press against it.  

What makes you grow as a family?

Even though there are four weeks left until the expected date of delivery, only 5% of babies are born on that exact date. As an expectant mother, you should get plenty of rest so that you can gather your strength for childbirth.

The onset of labor can occur in two ways:

  1. Your water breaks.
  2. Contractions begin, meaning they become longer, stronger, and more frequent. Ask your partner to time some of the contractions: how long the contraction lasts and how long the interval between contractions is. If the contractions last one minute within an hour and the interval between them is only five minutes, it is time to go to the hospital. This is the general recommendation of midwives and doctors. If your midwife or gynecologist has given you other criteria, then of course those apply.  
     
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