Week 34 · Third trimester
34 weeks pregnant
Snapdragon
45 cm (17.7 in)head to heel
At about 45.0 cm from head to heel, your baby is close in length to a Snapdragon (~45 cm), an architectural row of blooms climbing one stem.
This week, inside
Your baby is curled inside the uterus with legs bent toward the chest. Space is tighter, but shifting movement and changes in the shape of the bump can still happen.
What you might be noticing
- Colostrum may appear. breasts can leak small amounts of yellowish early milk, whether or not breastfeeding becomes part of your feeding plan.
- Sleep and back. sleeping problems and backache can continue.
- Practice tightenings. painless Braxton Hicks tightenings may come and go.
Small things that help
Choose clothing and layers by comfort, not expectation. Put a towel or washable pad where it would make breast leakage feel less disruptive, whatever feeding path you plan.
For the record
What part of your body’s work surprised you this week?
Zohra asks one of these every week, and keeps your answer. A year from now it is the part people say they are most glad they wrote down.
Where this came from
Not sure you are at week 34? Work out your due date — or see every week’s size on one chart, and the rest of the third trimester.
Keep this week
Zohra draws this same flower in the app, at this same size, and keeps what you write beside it — with your bump photos, the letters, and the sounds from your appointments.
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