Week 37 · Third trimester
37 weeks pregnant
Orchid spike
48.6 cm (19.1 in)head to heel
At about 48.6 cm from head to heel, your baby is close in length to an Orchid spike (~48 cm), several elegant blooms held along one arching stem.
This week, inside
Your baby practices facial movements such as frowning and smiling; these expressions are reflexive rather than signs of a particular emotion. Patterns of more-active and calmer times may feel familiar by now.
What you might be noticing
- A shift lower. as the baby moves into the pelvis, heartburn or indigestion may ease for some people.
- Practice tightenings. painless Braxton Hicks tightenings may continue.
- Sleep and energy. sleeping problems can still shape the day.
Small things that help
Keep the route, phone numbers, and bag where you can find them without thinking. Then return to today; readiness does not have to take over the whole room.
For the record
What does “ready enough” look like for you today?
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 37? 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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