39 Weeks Pregnant

This is it. Baby is "suppose" to arrive in 7 days. I can't believe I've been pregnant for 39 weeks! It's amazing. The beginning of the pregnancy I found to go quite slow, perhaps because I was so sick, then trimester 2 was nice, I was no longer tired, morning sickness had gone away, and then trimester 3 comes and it isn't so bad at first either ... until you hit week 37 or so, and everything is getting sore. You finally realize you can't do things like you use too, and everyday things become harder to do. Believe me, I'm hoping she arrives on schedule because I really don't want to go longer, but I figure she will come when she's good and ready.

Anyways, enough of that. Here is what is going on in week 39:

The big day is almost here and it won't be long before you're able to cuddle your baby. But don't worry if by the end of this week you're still waiting -- only 5 per cent per cent of babies are born on their expected due date and a whopping 75 per cent are born later. You are probably as big as you are going to get and may be uncomfortable now. Your uterus is about 7-8 inches above your bellybutton now.

The average baby is about 20.5 inches / 51 centimetres long from head to toe and weighs approximately 7.5 pounds / 3.4 kilograms at birth, but anywhere between 5 pounds 11.5 ounces and 8 pounds 5.75 ounces / 2.5 and 3.8 kilograms is a healthy range for newborns.

Although your baby continues to grow and develop inside of your uterus, there is not much room for him to move about. All of your baby's organ systems are now complete and the lungs were the last to fully mature.