While 37 weeks is considered full term, many babies born at 35 weeks are healthy. Before 37 weeks, some babies may have issues with transitioning from the womb. This may require assistance with breathing. If this happens, it is typically short lived.

Most babies are born healthy at 35 weeks, they sometimes have respiratory distress and sometimes need help learning to eat so they gain weight, so they may still spend some time in the NICU, but for the most part the survival rate at 35 weeks is very high.

You can have a healthy baby at 35 weeks, but may have to spend time in the neonatal unit. We sometimes have to deliver babies at 35 weeks for medical problems, but not usually for elective reasons.