Week 27 : I'm a survivor, I'm gonna make it!

At this point, it's impossible to ignore-- so thanks to that 2 pound baby in your womb, you're really looking magnificently preggers these days! Good news: at this point, your baby's lungs are actually capable of breathing, which means if they were to be born prematurely, they'd have a very high chance of surviving. As for you, you're starting to move into that final leg of the journey with plenty of not-so-fun symptoms.

 
Your not-so-tiny-anymore baby (2 pounds and 14.5 inches long!) is slowly rotating in preparation to “head out” for the grand entrance on their birthday!

Now obviously, this doesn’t happen overnight, but when you start to feel a new sort of pressure "down there" (aka your cervix), you’ll know you’ve got a fully flipped locked-n-loaded womb-fruit waiting for the countdown to launch!

If you feel like they're still not flipped, don't worry, you've still got time.

Impressive physical developments of the week: your child's lungs are already capable of breathing air as their vascular system can now handle oxygen/carbon exchange and their brain stem can now regulate rhythmic breathing as well as their basal body temperature!

For what it’s worth, at this point in a healthy pregnancy - if you were to give birth prematurely, your tiny fighter could easily win on the show: “Survivor: The Early Years.”

Go ahead, give your belly a gentle hi-five!