39 weeks pregnant

This week

Everything is ready. Now you wait for each other.

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  A brain still sprinting

  The brain keeps growing at full speed, and it will not slow down for years after birth.
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  Shedding the coat

  Most of the lanugo and vernix are gone now, swallowed and stored in the gut as the first nappy's meconium.
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  Waiting for the signal

  Snug and low in the pelvis, your baby waits; labour usually starts between weeks 38 and 42.

Written against the NHS week-by-week guide. A picture, not a measurement: every baby grows at their own pace.

“What are you both most nervous and most excited about for the birth?”

Every Sunday, Syncry asks you both one question like this. You each answer in your own words, and the answers become your book.

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