Week by week / Third trimester
Week 41
Your baby is about the size of a watermelon. Here is what is happening, what you might feel, and the two or three things worth doing this week.
Size right now
A watermelon
51.7 cm / 20.4 in, 3597 g / 7 lb 15 oz
- Length
- 51.7 cm / 20.4 in
- Weight
- 3597 g / 7 lb 15 oz
- Trimester
- Third
- To go
- 0 weeks
The baby
Late term. Fingernails may need cutting soon after birth, they keep growing.
You
Extra monitoring is usual from here: fluid levels and a non stress test.
This week
Attend the extra monitoring appointments, they are the point of this week
Discuss induction options and their timing
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