Week 36
Thursday August 04th 2005, 6:00 am
Filed under: Family

You will probably start to see your practitioner every week until you give birth.
Most babies will be in a head down position at this point. However, about 4% of the babies will be breech. Do not panic! There are plenty of things that you can do to encourage the baby to turn, including special exercises.
If the exercises do not work, your practitioner may want to attempt an
external cephalic version (ECV). The ECV is a manual turning of the
baby.

Baby:

The baby
continues to grow and snuggle down into your pelvis. The benefit of
this is that you can breathe more easily, however, you also have to
urinate more often. Your practitioner will probably not stop your labor
if you were to start having regular contractions now.
Baby
weighs about five pounds two ounces (2.3 kilograms) and measures 45 cms
or 17.8 inches. Although here at the end there is a larger margin of
difference among babies. Ask your practitioner to palpate (feel through
your abdomen) to guesstimate the weight. Remember it is just a guess,
although some are better than others.

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