screen you might be anxious about your waters breaking when you’re out an about in public or some similarly inconvenient time, the reality is that fewer than 15% of women experience their waters breaking as the onset of labour and if you

Image of 34-week fetus courtesy of BabybondWant to see a bigger pic?Your baby is about 47 centimetres long and weighs 4.5lbs, over 2 kilos. It’s around this time that she will turn to face downwards. The new position will put more strain on your

Congratulations! You're 37 weeks pregnant. You've made it to term and if your baby was born now he would be considered fully mature and ready for birth; his lungs would be ready to breathe air without assistance and so nothing would be done to slow

26-week fetus - Image courtesy of BabybondWant to see a bigger pic?Your baby is now nearly 40 centimetres long and weighs about 900g, nearly 2lbs. Her lungs are continuing their rapid development and your baby is practising breathing - inhaling

Congratulations! You're 30 weeks pregnant. 3/4 of the way through your pregnancy and from here on in you may feel like you're counting down the weeks to go until your due date. But if your pregnancy has skipped along reasonably quickly until

Welcome to your last month of pregnancy! You're 36 weeks pregnant.Sometime in these last few weeks of pregnancy many mums-to-be feel their baby drop down into the pelvis, shifting weight and pressure downwards to your lower half, this is called

in the amniotic fluid, building up her muscle strength for after the birth. In a few weeks' time though, the space she'll have to move around in will gradually shrink as grows and bulks up with fat deposits, filling out your womb. So the kinds of movements you