41 Weeks Pregnant: Signs & Symptoms (2024)

You’ve finally made it to the end of your pregnancy! By the time you start nearing your “due date”, it may feel like time is crawling.

Around 37-42 weeks of pregnancy is when most people are “over” being pregnant and they’re ready to get that baby out!

Your “due date” is the day you turn 40 weeks pregnant. We use quotations around “due date” just because it’s pretty rare that babies actually come out on this day. Since there’s no possible way to know the date of conception (unless you do IVF), a due date is really just a pretty good estimation. Most pregnant folks go into labor somewhere between 38 and 42 weeks of pregnancy.

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When Can You Hear Your Baby’s Heartbeat?

As exciting as pregnancy is, it may also come with some worry. In those early weeks of pregnancy, you may find yourself biting your nails while waiting to hear your baby’s heartbeat for the first time.

After getting that positive pregnancy test, hearing your baby’s heartbeat is the next huge milestone of pregnancy. Some pregnant folks even choose to wait to announce their pregnancy until they hear a heartbeat. If you are choosing to do this, that wait may be even more agonizing.

Some common questions many new moms / birthing folks have:

“When does a baby have a heartbeat?”
“Can you hear a heartbeat at 6 weeks?”
“When can you hear a fetal heartbeat?”

Motherboard is here to answer all of your questions in one place!

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