Pregnancy 40 week – development of the fetus and sensation of a woman

Pregnancy Calendar for Weeks – Pregnancy Forty Week – State, Feelings, Signs of Mother. Fruit development on the 40th week of pregnancy, photo

Waiting for the beginning of childbirth, some women start to worry, sleep worse. A few depressed state may occur. Partly the reason for this can be numerous calls for relatives and friends who are interested in whether it is time to start childbirth. Do not worry about this, keep calm and good mood.

What does the term mean – 40 weeks?

So, you are already at 40 obstetrics, and this 38 week from conception (child’s age) and 36 week from menstruation delay.

Mother’s feeling on the 40th week

• The future mother is already tired of the belly, but from what he sank – her It became easier to breathe;
• Should not be very much relying on the date of birth. Because no one will definitely call the date of ovulation and, of course, can not know anyone – in what week the kid will decide to appear, so Be prepared at any time to become mom;
• Possible “Complications” of the spiritual plan: sharp drops of mood and bouts of irritability, imperitiousness, increased attention to small things;
• Your body occurs in your body Active preparation for childbirth: softening bones, muscles, joints, as well as stretching pelvic ligaments;
• Harbingers of birth. Now you can disturb False fights, which are accompanied by pulling sensations in the field of the lower back, the stress of the abdomen, discomfort. They are not regular and do not affect the fetus;
• Discharge. In addition to harbingers of childbirth, you may also have non-human vaginal discharge White or yellow. It is absolutely normal if they are not accompanied by itching or discomfort;
• If you notice Blood-brown mucous Selection – It comes out so-called traffic jam – the result of the preparation of the cervix for the disclosure. This accurately means that childbirth will begin very soon!
• Can also start to Oil flooded water – Many confuse them with urine, because, often, because of the abdomen, future mothers, future mothers, suffer incontinence. But the difference is easy to determine if the selection transparent and smell or they are greenish – these are water (urgently to the doctor!);
• Unfortunately, frequent satellites of the fortieth week are Pain. Skin, neck, belly, lens. If they start to wear a regular character, know – childbirth approach;
• Nausea, cope with which will help meals with small portions;
• Heartburn, If it really bothers, drugs like “Reni” will help;
• Constipation, to avoid it usually try using folk remedies (for example, drink a glass of kefir in the morning, pre-bay them bran);
• Cause For all these “troubles”, one is significantly increased in the sizes of the uterus, which presses the organs (including intestines and the stomach) and interferes with their normal work;
• And here diarrhea On the 40th week, it is unlikely that you have eaten something not mobility – most likely it is part of the independent training of the body to childbirth;
• Often, at the end of the term prescribe Ultrasound. The doctor recognizes how the fruit and its weight lies, will determine the state of the placenta and as a result of which the method of childbirth is definitively determined.

Reviews from the forums about well-being on the 40th week:

Inna:

So quickly swept all these weeks, but a forty, such a feeling that infinite! I do not know where myself. Everything hurts – I’m afraid to change the position once again! Most more kinds!

Ella:

Well, I am a Tehch that my son is more comfortable with me, because I’m not going anywhere, apparently … Neither the harbingers nor no longer pulls, and the doctor said that it seems that the neck of the uterus has not been prepared yet. Stimulate will probably.

Anna:

How hard to save a positive attitude. Handwork about and without reason. Yesterday in the store I did not have enough money in the wallet for chocolate. I slightly moved from the push and how let’s root – some kind of woman bought and served her. Now ashamed to remember.

Veronica:

I pulled the lower back – and some strange feeling seems to be!!! On stupidity told her husband. I myself sit calm, and he cuts the circles around me, demanding an ambulance call, says he does not take. Funny such! Although my mood raised me.  Girls wish good luck to us!!!

Marina:

We have already returned from the hospital, gave birth on time. We have a girl called faith. And that I began to have a childhood, I learned by chance, but the planned inspection. The doctor asked several times, if I don’t feel pain or fights. And I did not feel so! From there immediately in Rozal.

Fetal development in the 40th week

• Your baby reached this time Heost approximately 52 cm and Weight about 3.4 kg;
• He was already tired of sitting in the dark, and he is ready to appear on the light;
• As in the 39th week – because of the crashes, he moves very little;
• Despite the fact that the baby is completely ready to appear on the light, his senses and the nervous system are still developing – and now he can react to the emotions of the mother.

Cases when you need to urgently cause a doctor!

• High pressure that is more characteristic of 2?th half of pregnancy, may be a sign of preeclampsia. If this state is not treated, it can lead to an eclampsia that causes a threat to life. Therefore, immediately call a doctor if you have any:
• Turbidity of vision;
• Big swelling or sudden swelling of hands and face;
• Strong headaches;
• Sharp weight gain;
• You suffer strong periodic headaches or loss of consciousness;
• Do not celebrate the fetal movements within 12 hours;
• They noticed the bleeding of sex tract or you have moved water;
• Feel regular contractions;
• “Cried” the term of the alleged labor.

Listen to your feelings. Be attentive, do not miss the signals that the childbirth began!

Photos of the fetus, photo of belly, ultrasound and video about the development of the child on the 40th week

Photos of the fetus on the 40th week

Ultrasound a child on the 40th week

Stock Foto Mother’s belly on the 40th week

Video: What happens on the 40th week?

Recommendations and Tips for the Future Mom

• Try to keep calm. Ask your husband to gain patience. Soon the long-awaited kid will appear in your family, and all small offenses will be forgotten;
• Rest as often as possible;
• Sorry with your husband your actions at the beginning of childbirth, for example, his willingness to your call back from work home;
• Discuss with your doctor what exactly you should feel when childbirth will begin;
• Make sure you have everything ready for the appearance of crumbs. You can also prepare the nursery, and the things of the baby;
• Collect bag with things you take in the maternity hospital, or prepare the necessary things for childbirth at home;
• Find a children’s doctor. Better, if, arriving home, you will know the name and phone of the doctor who will regularly observe the crumb;
• Prepare the older child to your absence. To make it easier to perceive the appearance of a newborn, again, a few days before the expected date of delivery, explain to him the reason for your soon departure. Your absence will be less sad if the child will be happy who?from loved ones, such as grandmother. Better if the elder child stays at home. Otherwise, the baby can be perceived as the invader: only he left, as the other immediately took his place. If for you the appearance of a new child – an exciting event, then for your baby it may not be so. Therefore, make a gift to the child, as if from a newborn, it will provide him with a good attitude of the elder brother or sister;
• Help your husband fulfill all the necessary cases during your absence. Stick everywhere leaves?Cheat sheets with reminders: pour flowers, remove mail from the box, freeze champagne to your arrival and other;
• Do not worry if 40 weeks have passed, and the birth has not yet begun. Everything has its time. Plus 2 weeks from the specified period – within the normal range.

Useful tips for the future dad

While the young mother is in the maternity hospital, you need to prepare in the house all the most necessary by the time it will return with a crumb.

• Hover in the house order. Of course, it would be nice to make general cleaning in the entire apartment or house. If it is difficult, then at least in the room where the baby will live, in the parent bedroom, hallway, kitchen and bathroom. You need to wipe the dust from all surfaces, spending carpets, upholstered furniture, wash the floor;
• Prepare a sleeping place for kid. First, the bed must be collected. After that, all washable parts should be washed with soap. It is preparing like this: in 2-3?Lithuanium capacity must be pouring warm water (35-40 ° C), miserably in the water baby soap for 2-3 minutes;
• After that, again wipe all times with clean water. Removable details of a crib made of material, as well as baby bedding, you need to wash in a washing machine or hands with a children’s washing powder. The underwear should be well frowning;
• When machine washing, choose a mode with a maximum amount of rinsing, and when washing your hands you need to change the water at least 3?x times. After washing and drying underwear, it is necessary to fly;
• For processing a bed, it is a soap solution that is better to use, and not to dissolve children’s washing powder, since the soap solution is much easier to wash off;
• Change linen on a married bed. It is important to do, because perhaps you will take a kid with you in bed.
• Prepare food. If a festive feast is planned, you will have to organize it. Keep in mind that nursing mom is allowed not all products. For example, for example, boiled veal with buckwheat, first dishes, fermented milk products.
• Take a solemn statement organization. You have to invite guests to agree on video and photography, purchase a festive bouquet, cover the festive table, take care of safe transport with children’s car seats.

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