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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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