{"id":1796,"date":"2026-02-17T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/week-26\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T15:06:53","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T14:06:53","slug":"week-26","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/pregnant\/pregnancy-calendar\/week-26\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 26"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"26\">Week 26<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Een mijlpaal<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Your baby<\/h3>\n<p>Around this time, your baby&#8217;s eyelids open. Your child could already distinguish between light and dark, but it is not known whether he or she can see even more than just light and dark. <\/p>\n<p>De bewegingen van je kind worden steeds duidelijker. Voelde je ze eerst alleen als je rustig in bed lag en je goed concentreerde, nu voel je ze ook als je op de bus staat te wachten of midden in een vergadering zit. Dat maakt het soms best lastig om je aandacht overal bij te houden. Hoe vaak je je kind zou moeten voelen, daarvoor is geen richtlijn aan te geven. Als dat toevallig even minder is, hoef je je niet direct zorgen te maken. Soms heb je het gewoon zo druk, dat je de bewegingen niet direct opmerkt. Pas als er duidelijk iets verandert in de bewegingen, is het verstandig om dat te bespreken met je verloskundige.      <\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, another milestone has been reached this week: from this moment on, your baby is \u2018viable\u2019. However, it will still be very difficult to keep such a tiny human being alive with external help once it is born. From 28 weeks onwards, your baby has much better chances, but even then, he or she has a long way to go.  <\/p>\n<p>Whether the baby would survive depends on the weight and any potential complications. A premature baby has little resistance to infections, and their lungs are not yet mature enough for life outside the womb. Therefore, it is naturally not the intention for your child to be born at this stage.  <\/p>\n<h3>You<\/h3>\n<p>Stress, and especially chronic stress, is never healthy, but certainly not now. When you are very stressed, it triggers physical reactions such as prolonged palpitations or sweating. The consequence can be that your blood vessels, including those of the placenta, constrict and become less well-perfused. This is not good for your baby, and he or she may suffer a growth delay as a result.   <\/p>\n<p>So if you are very busy at work, slow down in time. If there are problems or things you are very worried about, try to discuss them with your midwife. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 26 Een mijlpaal Your baby Around this time, your baby&#8217;s eyelids open. Your child could already distinguish between light&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/flex.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1796","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1797,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796\/revisions\/1797"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}