Your Body: You’ve tired, retaining fluid and might feel breathless or dizzy. You may have gone up a shoe size. It’s time to get that feeding bra! You may get some aches and pains like stitch. Pelvic ligaments loosen. Foetal movements are sensed as the baby’s head moves around low in the pelvis.
Your Baby: The foetus, now about 2.5 kg, can focus it’s eyes on things like it’s extremities and umbilical cord. It is busy practising sucking, breathing, blinking, turning the head, grabbing things and stretching out it’s legs - even if it’s a bit cramped.
Fortnightly visit/antenatal check-up in the Circle of Care
Now till birth the Circle of Care sessions will be fortnightly. If you are planning a home birth or hospital birth you may like to arrange a home visit with your midwife.
Antenatal check, as always with your midwife in private.
Refresh on the key signs that labour is imminent
Birth stories from our previous mothers are shared.
