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Week by week  /  Third trimester

Week 30

Your baby is about the size of a cabbage. Here is what is happening, what you might feel, and the two or three things worth doing this week.

Size right now

A cabbage

39.9 cm / 15.7 in, 1319 g / 2 lb 15 oz

Length
39.9 cm / 15.7 in
Weight
1319 g / 2 lb 15 oz
Trimester
Third
To go
10 weeks

The baby

Amniotic fluid starts to decrease as the baby takes up more of the space. Red blood cell production moves fully to the bone marrow.

You

Fatigue comes back, and so can mood swings. Both are normal in the third trimester.

This week

Buy the remaining big items, prices and stock get worse close to Christmas and holidays
Install the car seat base and get it checked, many fire stations do it free

Worth ordering now

Not because week 30 is a deadline, but because these are the things that go wrong when they arrive late.

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