Pregnancy Week 34 – Breathing Becomes Easier From This Week Onwards

At pregnancy week 34, the baby becomes stronger in order to face the challenges of a new and not so protected world.

These days, your baby is busy in depositing the fat to offer fullness to the body.

This week involves some changes in you and your developing unborn baby.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 34?

The big change that you observe during this week is the notable weight shift. By this time your baby is situated in your pelvis so that you will find yourself walking as carrying a watermelon between your legs.

From this week onwards, breathing will become little bit easy because your lungs are not compressed. But, with this position, you need to suffer from frequent urination.

You will observe some itchy red bumps on your belly. If you feel itchy all over the body, then call your care provider because this can be a liver problem.

During your next prenatal visit, ask your physician to conduct the Group B Streptococci test. This is a common bacteria screening.

If you have strong immune system, you can survive in good health condition, but your little baby is very much susceptible to health conditions like pneumonia, blood infection and meningitis [meningitis vaccine] So, the screening is essential.

If you are first time pregnant, then at this moment you think very much about the labor and delivery. You will get lot of questions in your mind like will you give safe birth? Will the pain be moderate or more severe than you can bear? Will the labor drag on for so many hours?

Studies said that the duration of the labor and the pain are very much related to the level of maternal anxiety regarding the process of giving birth.

Experiencing the physical stress can be translated into the uterine muscle tension that can lead to the contractions more painful.

Anxiety and stress cause the production of catecholamines in your blood. This substance decreases the release of oxytocin so that the labor can not proceed as rapidly as it might otherwise.

During this time, hip pain is a constant problem for you. The production of increased levels of hormones during pregnancy makes the connective tissues in your body to soften and loosen up. Joints present in between the bone of your pelvis become more relaxed and causes the hip pain.

You will feel that even standing for few minutes is a very uncomfortable and tiring. A careful checkup of the cervix is very important at this time.

What are the changes that occur in the fetus during pregnancy week 34?

• By this week, your baby is about the size of 19.8 inches long and weighs up to 5 pounds.
• This week, the baby will move into your pelvis. With the weight shift, your baby is most likely out of the breech position.
• Now the baby’s head is on your pubic bone.
• Your baby’s liver can now be capable of processing certain amount of waste.
• The vernix coating on your baby’s skin will become thicker and lanugo hair will be completely removed by this week.
• Your baby has immunity to fight against mild infections.
• The baby’s lungs are completely developed and they produce a substance named as surfactant that helps the exchange of oxygen in the lungs.

Fact for pregnancy week 34:

Want to know the tips for relaxation during the labor?

• Try for a visualization technique. During the last three weeks of your pregnancy, visualize yourself giving birth to your baby. Imagine that your baby is in the perfect position for the safe birth. Feel that your baby is moving through the birth canal easily with each contraction.
• Try for a massage [Pregnancy Massage] with the help of your partner. Massage will greatly help you to alleviate from stress and perception of pain during the labor.
• A form of patterned breathing or abdominal breathing is very important and it can be very relaxing.
• Try to perform progressive relaxation.

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