All About Baby - Week 36
Your once wiggly baby now favors certain body positions. (Sawyer definitely has his favorite spots that he goes back to every night!) Typically, your baby will enjoy resting with his head down and his rump toward your ribs—the ideal placement for delivery. Your baby's movements will become less frequent as he has less wiggle room. From now Baby's growth will be slow and steady as he continues to put on weight and fill out.He's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered his body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected his skin during his nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, which will form the contents of his first bowel movement. (YUM. Poor kid!)
At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely he's in a head-down position. But if he isn't, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of your belly.
How Big Is Baby?
Your little one weighs in at about six pounds this week and his length hovers around 13.2 inches crown to rump (Length: more than 18 1/2 inches, head to heel.). He is still packing on the pounds at a rate of about an ounce a day, and is comparable to a crenshaw melon in size.
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