Week 36

BabyCenter.com says.....
How your baby's growing:
Your baby is still packing on the pounds — at the rate of about an ounce a day. Baby now weighs almost 6 pounds (like a crenshaw melon) and is more than 18 1/2 inches long. Shedding most of the downy covering of hair that covered the body as well as the vernix caseosa, the waxy substance that covered and protected the skin during the nine-month amniotic bath. Your baby swallows both of these substances, along with other secretions, resulting in a blackish mixture, called meconium, will form the contents of the first bowel movement.

At the end of this week, your baby will be considered full-term. (Full-term is 37 to 42 weeks; babies born before 37 weeks are pre-term and those born after 42 are post-term.) Most likely baby's in a head-down position. But if not, your practitioner may suggest scheduling an "external cephalic version," which is a fancy way of saying she'll try to coax your baby into a head-down position by manipulating baby from the outside of your belly.