Baby's the size of a honeydew! (week 36)

Our baby is still packing on the pounds - at the rate of about an ounce a day. She now weighs almost 6.5 pounds and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. She's shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered her body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected her skin during her nine-month amniotic bath. Our baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, which will form the contents of her first bowel movement. At the end of this week, our baby will be considered full-term. WOOHOO! (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 weeks are post-term.) She's in a head-down position. But if she wasn't, our practitioner might suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version", which is a fancy way of saying she'd try to coax our baby into the head-down position by manipulating her from the outside of my belly.

Taken from: www.babycenter.com/6_your-pregnancy-36-weeks_1125.bc