35 weeks pregnant: what is happening this week

46.2 cm and getting rounder, which is the point of the fat being laid down - temperature regulation on the outside is a job the body has never had to do before. Movements should still be strong and regular despite the shortage of room. Colostrum may be leaking enough to need breast pads. Sore ribs are a theme this week, because feet have found them and there is nowhere else for feet to go. Braxton Hicks continue. Something practical: the freezer. Cooking in the first fortnight after a birth is close to impossible, and the difference between a household that eats properly and one that lives on toast is almost entirely made in the weeks before. Batch cook now, label it, and put it somewhere that does not require moving three other things to reach. That is not a domestic nicety; it is one of the few pieces of preparation that reliably pays off, and it is a job that can be done entirely by whichever of you is not pregnant.