Pregnancy Week 40: The Arrival

Your baby this week

About the size of a pumpkin

~20.2 in · ~7.6 lb

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How your baby is growing this week

Pumpkin size. Bones soft for delivery.

What your partner is going through

Labor imminent. 5-1-1 Rule.

What to focus on this week, dad

01Go Time: execute the hospital route you practiced
02Support mom — be her calm, her advocate, her voice when she can't speak

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Connect with your partner

You got this. Both of you. Everything you've prepared for leads to this moment.

Source: ACOG

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