Building A Baby Weeks   31-40
  Source: The Third Trimester 19 February 2007 2001-2006 http://www.wprc.org/fetal.phtml

fetal development The Third Trimester 19 February 2007 2001-2006 http://www.pregnancy.org/pregnancy/fetaldevelopment3.php

Pregnancy & Childbirth 19 February 2007 2007 http://www.healthsystem.virginia.edu/uvahealth/peds_pregnant/tests.cfm

 
  Facts: some of the tissues, features or cells that are forming during weeks 31-40. The rate of physical growth doesn't grows as fast as before  ,the bones now are growing and hardening, the lungs is  the only major organ left to complete development, the baby has a fully developed pair of kidneys,  the baby skull is quite pliable and not entirely joined.

     Some milestones are at 31 weeks it can move to rhythm of the music. Week 31 all five senses are working. Week 34 they learn to blink. Week 35 thy can hear fully. Week 36 her skin gets soft and her gums rigid. Week 38 she can hiccup and may have ahead full of hair. Week 39 her lungs are maturing and it doesn't have lot of room to move. Week 40 the baby ready to come out.

    Some changes that are happening to the mother's body at the gestation period is she gets heart burn, swelling of the ankles, hands and face. she also gets hemorrhoids , tender breast, trouble sleeping , your cervix become thinner and softer (called effacing) this helps the baby come out.

  
   

Test:  Some test they take during this period is a test called GBS which stands for Group B Streptococcus which are bacteria found in the lower genital tract of about 25 percent of all women. They do this because GBS infection usually causes no problems in women before pregnancy, but can cause serious illness in the mother during pregnancy. GBS cause a severe infection of the placental tissues and postpartum infection. Urinary tract infections can lead to preterm labor and birth.

  
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