Week 26

What’s happening this week

Your baby…

• is about the length of a Whittaker's block of chocolate
• weighs about 900 grams
• to a certain extent can now breathe, swallow and regulate her body temperature but still depends greatly on maternal support.

You…

• people on the ‘outside’ may be able to share the baby’s movements and feel them too
• sleeping may become uncomfortable, your LMC may suggest sleeping on your side
• may notice darkening of the skin line down the centre of your abdomen (the linea nigra)
• may have an ache in your wrists and hands as the carpal tunnel in your wrist swells during pregnancy and can pinch the nerves that run through it.