{"id":1846,"date":"2026-02-17T11:14:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T10:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/week-42\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T16:16:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T15:16:25","slug":"week-42","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/pregnant\/pregnancy-calendar\/week-42\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 42"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 id=\"42\">Week 42<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Are you still coming?<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>Your baby<\/h3>\n<p>If the placenta has functioned optimally for forty-two weeks, a baby born overdue does not look much different from a baby born on time. However, all the downy hairs have now disappeared, and your child has also lost all the vernix. It is even possible that the skin, and particularly the skin on the hands and feet, looks quite dry.<\/p>\n<p>Most babies born at 42 weeks have feasted in the womb and therefore look nice and chubby. It is also possible that the nails are a bit on the long side and you need to file them immediately to prevent your baby from scratching themselves.<\/p>\n<h3>You<\/h3>\n<p>It is perfectly understandable that you are getting very impatient now. By now, you&#8217;re probably pretty fed up with that big belly. But above all, you are now becoming very curious about your child. What will he or she look like? What will the first little sound sound like?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe you are starting to worry too. You had probably hoped for a spontaneous delivery, perhaps even at home. If you don&#8217;t give birth this week, there is a good chance you will be induced later. That happens in the hospital. The gynecologist will first examine whether the cervix is \u200b\u200balready ripe. If this is not yet the case, it is made supple using a special \u2018gel\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>If the cervix is \u200b\u200balready ripe, contractions are induced by means of an intravenous infusion of the hormone oxytocin. That will definitely get the contractions going and labor will begin. It really won&#8217;t be long now before you can hold your child in your arms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Week 42 Are you still coming? Your baby If the placenta has functioned optimally for forty-two weeks, a baby born&#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-1846","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1846","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=1846"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1846\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1846\/revisions\/1847"}],"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=1846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}