Nutrition checklist

The influence of hormonal changes, and the effect of the changes in the size of the growing uterus, can lead to eating complications during pregnancy.

Your pregnancy: weeks 36-40. It’s time for the final preparations before the big day.

Pregnant women will tell you they experience almost irrepressible cravings for certain foods – salty, sweet, spicy or fatty foods. Some think it’s the body signaling what the growing baby needs.

Your pregnancy: weeks 28-31. The changes in your body continue to take place as you enter your third trimester! As baby prepares for its future exit: its eyelids are uncovered and eyelash

Your pregnancy: weeks 14-17.

Your pregnancy: weeks 23-27. Your baby develops movements that will later help it take its first whiff of air in the world, inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid.

Physical changes

*Check whether the maternity ward has a list of the items you will need.

Items for hospital stay

In a normal, uncomplicated labour and delivery, the use of medication is not always necessary. Your own resources are often enough.

As labour starts, a mother’s mood changes and she becomes less aware of what is happening outside her body, and more aware of what is happening inside her body.

Instructor’s credentials, for example, midwife, physiotherapist.

Instructor’s specialised training in childbirth education.

Physical changes

The fertilised egg divides into two identical cells – then four, then eight, then 16, and then many billions, and 266 days later – your baby.

Read more about weeks 32 to 35 of your pregnancy below.

Read more about weeks 18-22 of your pregnancy below.

Clothing

The following signs of labour may occur in any order.
1. Progressive contractions

Physical changes