01/06/2025
While estimates range, roughly half of pregnancies continue past 40 weeks. So what happens then?
At 41 weeks, providers often offer a biophysical profile including:
✅ an ultrasound checking fetal movement and amniotic fluid levels, and
✅ a non-stress test consisting of fetal monitoring, assessing the fetal heart rate and it’s response to fetal
movement and/or contractions
The results from these tests can help inform potential next steps, from continuing to wait for labor to start on its own, to inducing, to electing for cesarean birth.
💬 Have you ever had a pregnancy go past 40 weeks? Tell us about your experience in the comments!
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This is a snippet from our Pregnancy Toolkit — a teaching tool perfect for doulas, midwives, OBGYNs, childbirth educators — really any professional who supports pregnant people.
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Our teaching tools uniquely equip repro health workers to support parents because…
✨ we write concise summaries + design creative diagrams for repro health ed
✨ we create inclusive + intersectional illustrations of babies + pregnant people
✨ we draw from and cite reputable and responsible sources
✨ we write with gender-inclusive terms + for reading levels from 8th grade up
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