Week by week / Third trimester
Week 42
Your baby is about the size of a jackfruit. Here is what is happening, what you might feel, and the two or three things worth doing this week.
Size right now
A jackfruit
51.5 cm / 20.3 in, 3685 g / 8 lb 2 oz
- Length
- 51.5 cm / 20.3 in
- Weight
- 3685 g / 8 lb 2 oz
- Trimester
- Third
- To go
- 0 weeks
The baby
Post term. The skin may be dry and peeling and the vernix is gone. Almost no one goes past this week without an induction being offered.
You
Monitoring is close now.
This week
Post term begins at 42w0d
Induction is normally recommended by this point
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