Week by week / Third trimester
Week 40
Your baby is about the size of a small pumpkin. Here is what is happening, what you might feel, and the two or three things worth doing this week.
Size right now
A small pumpkin
51.2 cm / 20.2 in, 3462 g / 7 lb 10 oz
- Length
- 51.2 cm / 20.2 in
- Weight
- 3462 g / 7 lb 10 oz
- Trimester
- Third
- To go
- 0 weeks
The baby
Due week. Only about four babies in a hundred arrive on the due date itself, so this is a midpoint rather than a deadline.
You
Your practice will start discussing what happens if the baby is late.
This week
Keep counting movements daily, this does not stop because you are due
Ask what your practice does at 41 and at 42 weeks
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