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You

You might not notice so much the movement of your baby this week, as it has increasingly less room; but you probably also see how its elbows, legs or head starts pushing out of your uterus when it is moving around. You have probably gained weight within 10-12.5 kg and this is your top weight of pregnancy. The pressure on the bladder makes you pee often and as your uterus is now under your ribs, you feel yourself breathless and you can have digestive disorders.

 

Your baby

Your baby weighs now 2500 g and is about 45 cm tall. The baby’s kidneys are fully developed and the liver produces residues. The baby is not physically fully developed and it is gaining weight with the last six weeks, by gaining weight up to half a kilogram in a week. The underskin adipose tissue makes it more round. At this stage of pregnancy most babies have turned themselves already on the head, but in approximately 3% of the cases the babies remain in the breech, on feet or crosswise. In this case it could be offered to the woman an external cephalic version in the conditions of the hospital which considerably decreases the need of cross section. The external cephalic version is successful in half of the cases.

 

Dr. Marek Šois recommends

Maybe you have noticed that the baby has a certain regime of sleeping and being awake. Some doctors recommend to regularly control the baby’s movements, but even if you do not do it, you could observe the baby’s daily regime to consult the doctor in case of material deviations. Eat food containing lots of iron. The analyses of the second half of pregnancy have been probably taken already during previous weeks and the haemoglobin level of your blood has been measured and, if required, the doctor has recommended to eat the food including iron or iron replacement treatment in case of iron-deficiency anaemia.

 

Think whether you are ready for the birth of the new human being. Purchase in due time necessary commodities such as baby’s bed, pram, bath, carry cot, pharmacy cosmetics and clothes for the first couple of months. Not much time is left up to the birth of the child and you might not have time later.

 

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

 

Some pregnant could have beta-hemolytic streptococcus (GBS) in their vagina which could cause lung infection or meningitis for the newborn and severe fever and uterus infection with difficult general condition for the mother after birth. If GBS exists, the antibiotic prophylactic is performed when the birth starts in the maternity hospital which decreases the complications caused by the GBS infection of the newborn and mother.

 

If you wish to know whether you are not the carrier of beta-hemolytic streptococcus, you might be interested in our GBS screening.