Baby Gaga - Connect with 1000s of pregnant moms & parents! Search BabyGaga Follow us on Facebook REGISTERLOGINGROUPSCOMMUNITYRESOURCESTOOLS Feedback Home / Pregnancy Calendar / Week 35 ‹‹‹Week 35›››Back to All Weeks 35 Weeks Pregnant length ~ 18.2 in | 46 cm weight ~ 5.25 lbs | 2.4 kg basically, your muscles are going to be like, YO - THIS IS HARD! when theyre talking to your nerves, wholl be delivering these messages to your brain afterward, which you will then experience as pain Fetal development in pregnancy week 35 Its getting cramped in here! Congratulations! You’re now carrying over 5 pounds of baby-goodness - not counting their amniotic fluid, the umbilical cord, or the placenta itself. Developmentally, your wee womb-tenant has the fat-factory running at full tilt while their digestive system puts the finishing touches on critical organs in preparation for their first meal (remember - before birth, all of their nutrition was blood via the umbilical cord). With their first meal in mind, its time to look forward to one of the most important things youll do for your infant - namely, keeping them alive with nothing more than your breasts. If youre still unsure whether you want to breastfeed, just check out our Ten Reasons to Breastfeed in Week 28. And hows mom doing? Okay superwoman, its time to talk about labor and how you plan to cope. Get this into your head right now -- LABOR PAIN IS GOOD PAIN -- its good for you and its good for your baby. Yes, contractions hurt, but unlike the pain of injury, it hurts because your muscles are being used in a way theyve never been used before (or only rarely). If youve been living under a rock: contractions are literally the slow process of squeezing your baby - via uterine muscular waves of motion, down your uterus into the birth canal. So - basically, your muscles are going to be like, YO - THIS IS HARD! when theyre talking to your nerves, wholl be delivering these messages to your brain afterward, which you will then experience as pain. The important part of this process is your mental and emotional acceptance of this pain as good, rather than something upsetting that must be avoided. LABOR PAIN IS GOOD PAIN because your body is working really hard to do something thats incredibly important. As Captain Obvious would say, Thats why they call it labor. It might not feel good, but lets be realistic here: how many times will your uterus do this job? All Duggar jokes aside, its obviously a unique situation for your body. Labor gets a bad rap because of the pain of contractions, but if you look at the big picture - beyond the pain, youd see that your labor is an act of epic earth-shattering proportions. Come on! Its the act of giving life, after all! Even if you are a pain-pansy, you need to come to terms with two things: 1) labor will hurt and thats okay and 2) the more you accept the pain as good, the less it will hurt. Regardless of whether you get an epidural and in spite of their popularity, every one of us would do well to remember that pain is a normal and important part of life. Your brains pain system usually warns you when something is wrong or broken, but this time - if you listen to your body and take the time to understand the epic nature of whats happening inside of you, you might begin to understand that a change of such amazing proportions is taking place inside of you that your entire body (pain signaling system included) cries out in its efforts to bear life. One last time, just so you remember: LABOR PAIN IS GOOD PAIN. Did You Know? Researchers at Wake Forest University found that women in labor between noon and 6 p.m. received longer epidural relief from labor pain than women who labored between 8 p.m. and 2 a.m. All the women were first-time pregnancies and received the same amount of the spinal-epidural medication. Researchers believe this is due to the body’s natural rhythms that affect sleep cycles, hormones and perceptions of pain. More Information Labor pain management The epidural ‹‹‹Week 35››› Pregnancy Psycho-Meter Click to vote Great Pretty good Just okay Not so grand Ugh bad 28.6% 9% 25.2% 23.7% Looking for Your Babys Name? 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