Today marks 1 week before your estimated due date! Your baby is done growing. The only organs still developing are the lungs.
In these final days, the dropping of the uterus lower and lower each day can cause you to feel off-balance and a bit clumsy. The pressure placed on the cervix when the uterus drops into the birth canal causes signals to be passed to the brain that the baby is ready and triggers the release of hormones that ripen the cervix.
What you need to know about labor induction!
Tips for this week
The good news is that everything you were supposed to do during pregnancy has been done. The bad news is that in the last two weeks of pregnancy, simply walking can feel like work. Fluid is collecting in hands, feet, ankles, legs, and face. That pregnancy glow turned into a pregnancy mask is no longer flirty and warming. Excess weight has the back feeling like is bowing out of control and fatigue is the most overpowering feeling on earth. But very soon, your baby will be in your arms!
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