Pregnancy Checklist: Your Third Trimester To-Dos
You're nearly there! Here are the key tasks to get through before baby arrives.
ByPaula Kashtan
Updated
Aug 2020
Aug 2020
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You’re in the home stretch! Baby’s arrival is around the corner—which means it’s time to wrap up the last of your pregnancy checklist to-dos. Here’s what you’ll want to tackle before it’s go time.
- Babyproof the house
- Start fetal kick counts
- Create a birth plan
- Round out your pregnancy wardrobe with third trimester clothes, or rent some
- Enjoy your baby shower event!
- Send baby shower thank you notes for gifts (start one week after your shower)
- Take a childbirth class and a breastfeeding class, if you so choose
- If you want to bank baby’s cord blood, figure out where and order your kit
- Cook and freeze meals to have on hand after delivery
- Go to your doctor’s visits (two this month)
- Buy any baby items you still need
- Prepare a baby first aid kit
- Finish painting and designing the nursery
- Install baby’s car seat and get it inspected
- Pack your hospital bag
- Find out what screening tests your hospital routinely gives newborns and talk to your doctor about any additional tests you’d like to run
- Go to your doctor’s visits (two this month)
- Do your Group B strep test (week 35-37)
- Wash baby’s clothes with newborn laundry detergent
- Go to your doctor’s visits (weekly until delivery)
- If needed, take a non-stress test
- If needed, do a biophysical profile