37 and 38 Weeks Pregnancy

37 Weeks Pregnant

You are almost at the end of your pregnancy period. It is the time when you need to prepare yourself for any critical situation. It is essential to keep your hospital bag ready beforehand and don’t forget to keep all the important information with you whenever you are away from home like important telephone numbers, money, address book, doctor or midwife’s number etc. These all things become handy in undesirable situations.

Up till now, the major development of your baby is almost completed and now is the time for his growth. In the coming weeks, you will see a considerable amount of growth in your baby in terms of his size, muscular strength and weight. Lungs and brain cells keep developing in the coming weeks. The subcutaneous fat deposits continue to build up underneath the baby’s skin. Testicles in baby boy descend down to the scrotum in most of the babies.

The baby is small in size at this stage, but begins to grow some size in next coming weeks. At this particular stage, the head of the baby begins to shift down into the pelvis, especially if he is your first baby. However, if you are having your second or third baby, the head may not lower to pelvis till the time of labor. Though, the aggressive movements of the baby are gone, he can still able to move in the limited space available in the uterus.

38 Weeks Pregnant

In The 38th week of your baby the development of your baby is almost completed and he is about to coming in this world. Mother will feel change shape in her bump when the baby is going to descend his head to the pelvis. And the mother does not pass from these changes in the case of second and third baby as the baby descends by the time of labor in such cases.

The most important growth in baby is making of the fat layer under your baby’s skin and also occurs in the time of labor. Now baby’s heart starts beating at 110-160 beats a minute. This time Newborn baby has 300 bones. There is no need to be surprised because as the time passes some bones merged into each other and finally become 206 in number.

By this time the fluffy lanugo covering most of the skin of the baby has fallen away. But small amount of lanugo still on the back and shoulder areas. Baby’s body is still covered with greasy vernix

Baby does not move as energetic baby. But he is still active. And now he has curled up knees and skin is now pushed onto baby’s chest. In the 23rd weeks baby closes his eyes and it looks like sleeping and dreaming all the time. This has a good impact on the baby’s brain and baby sleep 6p percent of the total day. It means he dreams a lot in these weeks and has a rapid growth of brain cells.

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