Amazing 3D images of your baby's development at 38 weeks pregnant! Our pregnancy calendar tells you everything there is to know about being 38 weeks pregnant!

38 weeks pregnant, your baby may be engaging. Here's your pregnancy guide week by week.

When you're 38 weeks pregnant, your baby is approximately 19 to 21 inches long from head to toe. This eMedTV resource discusses your baby's development ...

By 38 weeks pregnant, you are probably feeling exhausted, heavy, and bloated. You are most likely impatient for your baby to come. ...

I am 38 weeks pregnant and i keep having sharp pains in and around my vagina area.

Amazing 3D image of your baby's development at 38 weeks pregnant! Our pregnancy calendar tells you everything there is to know about being 38 weeks pregnant!

At 38 weeks pregnant, many women find that their breasts begin to leak a thin, yellowish fluid that is the precursor to mature breast milk. ...

38 Weeks Pregnant: Baby Engaged. You are 38 weeks pregnant! By now baby's head has probably "engaged," or moved down deep into your pelvis to prepare for birth. ...

38 Weeks Pregnant - Your Pregnancy Week by Week. Pregnancy Week 38 ... At 38 weeks pregnant, you may start to worry about the labor and delivery process. ...

You are now 38 weeks pregnant (or in your 39th week if that's how you prefer to count it) ... You may be feeling huge and uncomfortable during these final weeks. ...

Your baby has really plumped up. She weighs about 6.8 pounds and she's over 19 1/2 inches ... Q: im 38 weeks pregnant. A: I'm just so ready for this baby to come ...

38 Weeks Pregnant Many different changes are happening during the 38th week of pregnancy. Both mom and baby are ready for delivering and experiencing a

my dr has not checked me yet i just want to know how i can tell by myself if im dilated im 38 weeks pregnant and with my first my dr checked earlier in the pregnancy so im dying to know if im dialed and this dr just wont check so how can i know if im dilated myself??

How can i tell the defference between Braxton hicks contractions and actual labor contractions? Im 38 weeks pregnant with my 1st. I know that Braxton hicks kinda feels like period cramps but ive been having irregular (what i think are) labor contractions.

last night i was doing some cleaning and i was trying to fix a chair but when i grabbed the chair a nail went into my finger and i had to pull the nail out. the nail wasn't rusty but i was bleeding alot. do you think pregnant women can get tetanus shots?

38 weeks 5 days pregnant 3 to 4 cm dilated what else can i do to make myself dilated more

I haven't had intercourse with my partner for I'd like to say 3 weeks at least. Today I had my dr appt and I had a pap smear done. It was not painful. I also had my cervix checked and that was not painful for me either. Uncomfortable as it always is of course but no pain. However when me and my partner had intercourse today it was very painful. I know this is a sign that it should be avoided just wondering how common this is as I do not remember it being this painful with my first child. I wa

i am 38 weeks pregnant and i went to the toilet and it didn't feel right when i peed, i looked down the toilet and it was like loads of snot, it was really runny and wen i wiped it was really slimey, it was pinky tinged. that was 1hour ago, now i have diarrhoea. is this labour????

I keep getting these muscle spams/like a lighting strike in my lower back that shoots up to the middle of the back. It only last for a few seconds when it happens..but is happening offten. Just started! Is it part of braxton hicks? Baby has been head down for some time now..so i didnt think it had anything to do with him? Sorry pregnant for the first time...Has anyone ever had this happen to them?

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I am 38 weeks and 5 days pregnant. The past 2 days I feel like I cant control my emotions! I will cry over nothing then feel fine, then 2 minutes later start crying again. I feel like I am going crazy. I have not had any problems with my hormones my entire pregnancy until now. Could this somehow be a sign that labor is near?

38 CM IS MY HEIGHT FUNDUS WAS MEASURED TODAY, HAVING A SCAN TOMORROW. I KNOW THERE'S USUALLY 2CM SMALLER OR LARGER THAN YOUR WEEKS BUT I'M 7CM OVER IS THIS REALLY BAD?? I had a miscarriage right before, so dates r defo right.....the midwife was panicking after seeing the measurements which made me worry..... but water and baby position surely can make it bigger.. My first baby I had loads of water n I gushed out with him, so your prob right hun it prob is just water..

I had sooooo many symptoms I was convinced I was pregnant. My period was really late. I took a test on days 32, 35, 38, and 41 and they all were negative. My period started on day 40, it seemed normal with lots of cramping. I still really feel like I'm pregnant though so yesterday I took another test and was crushed to find another negative :'( If you had the same thing happen to you, please share, I think it would help me cope. Or if you had been getting negative tests for weeks before yo

I went to the doctor yesterday and he said I was still about 1 cm, which i have been for the past 3 weeks but said that my cervix was still kinda thick. I had some labor pains this past Monday morning about 4 AM but haven't felt anything since then. Any help? I am just so ready for this baby to come out!

I will be 38 weeks pregnant on Sunday. Me && my husband have tried fresh pineapple, massage, && walking. We are about to try sex to try to induce labor. I go back to the doctor on the 9th && was going to see if i could get a membrane sweep. I know that the last time i was checked (about 3 days ago) I was 1cm dilated && 50% effaced. Is this a good idea if the sex doesnt work?

I am a wife and mother of three children and 31 weeks pregnant with our last (and final) child. My husband and I both work full-time. I am on my husband's insurance so the only thing I pay out is for my short term disability. I plan on working until I'm 38 weeks pregnant. I will get 12 weeks FMLA unpaid, but I can use my STD while I'm on leave. I do not want to go back to my job after I have the baby. I also will have 3 weeks vacation time before I go on leave. My question is when do I have to

I am 38 weeks pregnant and on Monday was 3+cm dilated & 70% effaced. All yesterday I was having contractions about every 10 min. Today I have had a couple of strong ones, but they stopped about 6 hours ago. However all afternoon, I have been having what feel like back spasms every 6 min or so. Am I in labor and should I go to the hospital. Also my water has not broken.

The first day of my last period was April 3rd and my due date is January 8,2011 and I am (on September 2,2010) 21 weeks and 5 days along in my pregnancy. I was having sex with this guy while he was on a break with his girlfriend. The last time i was with that guy was April 9th and it was unprotected. The day after I went to where my ex lives to go shopping with a friend and then he texted me, so i met up with him and we had unprotected sex..then the next Saturday which was the 17th I went to s

I have tried everything to try to get the cervix to open but nothing seems to work. I walk everyday drink raspberry leaf tea sex clean.. nothing seems to work My OB said that my cervix is stubborn what can i do?

I'm 38 weeks pregnant and just wanted to hear some stories of how the water broke and what you were doing that made the water brake.

Hi, im nearly 38 weeks pregnant with my first, and all going well i hope to breast feed my baby. Now i have been told in the beginning they can feed for an hour or 2 hours at a time, which is fairly normal, or so im told, has this been the case in your experience? And do they start to feed quicker as they get older, or does even a 4 months old still take 1-2 hours? Or do they still take as long, but require less feeds? Thanks in advance! Thanks everyone, thats great to know, the midwives only

went for checkup today, baby is measuring huge~ 3 weeks ahead! so doc wanted to move my date to 'give me time off', because it falls on a weekend she then decided to not move my dates (btw i am booked for a c~section) also cause she said shed rather not take baby out at 38 weeks. she said that if i go into natural labour b4 the booked date that i must just come into hospital and then she can do a c~section at any time. i didnt even want to try natural to start off with, we stay 40 mins from

38 weeks and 3 days pregnant. The past few weeks I have had normal increasing discharge but it would sometimes look light brownish/yellowish. I thought it was just pee so i started wearing pads. Today i seen a darker brown color on my pad and it did not smell like pee. I called my Doc and she said "As long as the baby is moving, youre fine." Thats all she said. I think i may have been leaking fluid for a weeks like very slowly or on and off type of thing. Should i go to the Hospital JUST IN CA

I just started drinking raspberry leaf tea today. I made the tea extra strong..will it do any harm? My cervix is still closed last time the doctor checked and it made me so frusterated because i just want the baby to come faster. I cannot sleep at night and i'm in so much pain when i walk. Will the tea make my cervix open? I know it helps tone the uterus. But any stories of the tea dilating the cervix?

i am 38 weeks pregnant on tuesday the 6th sept and been told i got to go for another growth scan i have been going every fortnight for the past 6 weeks and they recently did the glucose test on me and i have been told i have diet controlled diabetes, i have had to have an iron infusion this past week too that was horrible, im itching all over all the time i did also have cholestasis in my last pregnancy so they said its more than likely come back and im having such bad back ache for the past 6

This morning I woke up at 5am to kiss my husband goodbye before he goes to work and I had a headache right on the top of my head, sort of toward the right side. I thought maybe it was because I've had a crappy time getting to sleep lately and also I've been on the internet almost all day facebooking and watching TV shows on netflix to pass time until I go into labor...could that be why I have a headache? I went back to sleep for a few hours and when I woke up, headache was still there. I NEVE

Im 38 weeks pregnant so baby will be here soon. My husband of 1 year has 3 min pins which he sees as his babys, the oldest one is 9 yrs and the youngest one is 2yrs. He has no other kids so this baby is going to be his first. The dogs are not bad dogs but they pee and poop everywhere in our home and also bark at anything they see or hear no matter what it is, (from when i flush the toilet to when a car passes by) so i mean EVERYTHING, so im very concern about them waking the baby with the bark

Im 38 weeks pregnant so baby will be here soon. My husband of 1 year has 3 min pins which he sees as his babys, the oldest one is 9 yrs and the youngest one is 2yrs. He has no other kids so this baby is going to be his first. The dogs are not bad dogs but they pee and poop everywhere in our home and also bark at anything they see or hear no matter what it is, (from when i flush the toilet to when a car passes by) so i mean EVERYTHING, so im very concern about them waking the baby with the bark

I am 33 weeks pregnant, and also have a 4 year old, and a 6 year old. I dont normally carry either one of them, but my 4 year old daughter had a nighmare and came screaming in my room, i got her back to sleep, but in my bed. I picked her up and carried her back to her bed, so i could go back to sleep. She is about 38 pounds, and while i am not having any serious pain, i am experiencing some discomfort in my pelvis and pubic bone. Is this just something that is normal during the last trimester,

im 40 weeks pregnant (just over actually) and my contractions are regular for an hour at about 7-10 minutes apart. Some are incredibly painful and some are barely recognizable. I have no idea what to do. I have rung the midwife and she is pretty keen on thinking she will come today/tonight/early tomorrow. She says i wont need to come in till im 3-5 minutes apart. The thing is sometimes I am. They just aren't sore and it only happens like 3 times in a row. Like so far this morning my contrac

i went to the doctor at 35 weeks and i was not dilate any what can i do

okay,i got oral herpes on my mouth at 15 weeks pregnant,they gave me medicine to get it to go away. and now im 38 weeks pregnant,& i have it again. and they have me on a med call Valacyclovir 500mg 2 times a day for 10 days, i have one more day and i still have 2 blister on my tounge?& the doc told me i would no if i had it on my viginia,cus it would hurt really bad.and i would see it and all. so i dont have it down there,cus im feel completely fine down there.But if i have had it on my mouth

I have mild cramping like a period in my lower stomach, they are not braxton hicks but i have been getting the braxton hicks contractions now and again and it feels really uncomfy what does this mean? the cramps have been going on for a while now. thanks!

Wondering how fast people (mainly women) saw results when they started dieting and exercising. I am a 28 year old, 5'7" currently 210lbs after 3 children, my husband is 30, 5'9" and did weigh 230lbs. After 5 weeks of us really trying to change our lifestyles he has seen dramatic results I have seen disappointing results. We both started on the slim-fast 3,2,1 diet, he is still on it and has currently lost about 16lbs, I gained 10lbs in the first 2 weeks had severe water retention and had to

I also posted this question in Women's health, so apologies if you've seen this before. 13 weeks ago I gave both to my stillborn son, I was 38 weeks pregnant. Test and results show this was due to a small placenta, it was recomended that my consultant test me for clotting disorders and diabetes. When we were first told my son ahd died lots of blood was taken and i was tested for clotting disorders at the time and they came back negative, and through my pregnancy I was given the glucose test

13 weeks ago I gave both to my stillborn son, I was 38 weeks pregnant. Test and results show this was due to a small placenta, it was recomended that my consultant test me for clotting disorders and diabetes. When we were first told my son ahd died lots of blood was taken and i was tested for clotting disorders at the time and they came back negative, and through my pregnancy I was given the glucose test and regular usine tests and all these came back fine, so diabetes was ruled out. If you

Hi everyone im 38 weeks pregnant , this friday ill be 39 weeks pregnant. Last week my doctor told me i was almost 2 Cm dilated. My main concern is , I woke up this morning itching all over my arms and im breaking out with red itchy little bumps. It started on my lower belly and i have itchy red bumps all over my stomach from scratching it i believe so. I looked up on the internet that it can be something called "PUPPP" witch they say is perfectly normal for pregnant women. I read that a couple

Hi All, im 38 weeks and 5 days pregnant this morning i went to the toilet to find i have lost my mucus plug, it was not bloody just lots and lots of extremely sticky, stringy snot (sorry TMI only way i can think of describing it) that was at 9 o'clock but now at 2 o'clock im having mildly painful period pains. could this be the sign of things moving forward?

I also felt like I needed to poo but couldn't. I was curious if that was a sign of labor starting in the next week? or false labor? They def aren't braxton hicks. I timed them at about 6 minutes apart lasting 45-60 seconds. I know when I go into labor I will feel more intense. They are also stop and go. had em real bad this morning around 2am and not so much right now at 7am.

When i was 4 yrs old my mom got married and then divorced shortly afterwards but the guy she married i kinda took on as my dad.. ive called him Dad my whole life. I am now 21 years old and having my first baby but i got laid off and needed a place to live. He offered me a room in his house along with a small room for a nursery which he kindly painted for me. But after about a month of lliving here he started getting really frustrated with me because i was sleeping a lot. I must remind you tha

I just had bloody tinged mucus, I am 37 weeks pregnant and 3 cm dilated and 40% effaced, his head is very very low and I have been having contractions since 5pmEST. They are very painful and are not getting any less. OWW! This is my 3rd baby, but again every pregnancy, and every labor is diff. I did not have the bloody mucus w/ the other 2. I had my 1st daughter at 38 weeks and my 2nd at 39 weeks. He is very active right now, and pushing down hard. Its hard to sit here and time these contra

I am 38 weeks pregnant and i have been getting more and more uncomfortable at night i only sleep about an hour until i am back up switching positions because i am not comfortable anymore, i am also noticing he is more relaxed and is not as active as he used to and he is farther down to where when i am sitting i can feel the pressure of him now. i just want to know if this means if he is like coming very soon like any day now soon or am i still safe to wait to start panicking as i get closer to

It felt like grissle or something. Like meat covering a rubber bone or something weird like that. We've been feeling it for 2 weeks now. Anyone know what this could be?

I am 38.5 weeks pregnant. I had a cervical exam 4 days ago that resulted in some light spotting for two days. The spotting then stopped and I had another cervical exam yesterday that wasn't as painful and didn't seem to cause any spotting. However, I woke up last night to use the bathroom. While wiping, I noticed some mucous like discharge. After wiping a few times, I noticed a rather large amount of mucous discharge that actually looked brownish. Did I pass my mucous plug or is this from the

i am 38 weeks pregnant and i have been having contractions since 36 weeks. the first day i went to the hospital thinking it was time and they said i was contracting but sent me home because i was only dilated to 1. the contractions as time went by seem to be getting worse but when i went to the doc yesterday she told me im still dilated to 1 and my cervix is at a -1 (what ever that means). so i just wanna know how long i can have these contractions before actually going into labor because some

im 38 1\2 weeks pregnant and my stomach has been sore lately could it be an early sign im goin to go in to labor soon?

but they are not regular. at night time i feel so much pain in my cervix. i am really tired of being pregnant. this is my second pregnancy and in my first i haven't had those kind of pains. i am just wondering if anyone had and for how long you had this pain...or i might be in labour???

but they are not regular. at night time i feel so much pain in my cervix. i am really tired of being pregnant. this is my second pregnancy and in my first i haven't had those kind of pains. i am just wondering if anyone had and for how long you had this pain...or i might be in labour???

I posted a similar question in the ttc wall, so apologies if you've seen this before. 12 and a half weeks ago I gave birth to a little boy. I was 38 weeks pregnant and my little boy was still born due to a small placenta. Since then my other half and I have wanted to try again, but my periods have not yet returned. I just wondered how long it had taken other ladies for their periods to return after birth, still birth or living. Mainly ladies who didn't breast feed as i know breast feeding

I'm 38 weeks pregnant and the doctors want to induce me. I'll be induced Tuesday morning at 6am. I wanted an all natural birth, no epidural, nothing. Even though they will be giving me pitocin, I'm still really nervous. I've done okay throughout the whole pregnancy and today it hit me like a ton of bricks. I'm really nervous and have no clue what to expect! Can anybody tell me their experience with being induced and doing it naturally? And can you tell me what the procedure is, like what wil

Okay so this is something my sister tried when she was pregnant but she drank the castor oil plain and it just gave her extreme diarrhea and nausea/vomiting. I know technically you should let the baby come on his or her own when the baby is ready. I know that it causes diarrhea/nausea/vomiting but getting the digestive system upset is the whole point of drinking castor oil to induce labor because it can help cause uterine contractions, that you should wait until at least 38 weeks, and I know i