Welcome to Week 14 of Your Pregnancy. What Is Happening With Baby This Week? Your Baby is now performing more complex movements. At 14 weeks, Baby is very active, although you are weeks away from being able to feel all this movement. Baby can now squint, swallow, respond to touch, make basic facial expressions, bend, stretch, kick and even uses the wall of the
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Welcome To Week 15 Of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening With Your Pregnancy This Week This week your Baby is starting to grow hair on his head, the eyebrows are starting to fill in and the pigment of the hair colour is starting to appear. Your Baby’s eyes and ears continue to develop. The ears are still sitting a little low on the head but are
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Welcome To Week 16 Of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening This Week? Week 16 of your pregnancy brings more exciting changes. Your Baby is a little over 4 inches long from the top of the head (the crown) to the end of the spine (rump ) and is about the size of a large avocado. Nervous System Baby now holds his or her head a
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Welcome To Week 17 Of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening This Week: Your Baby’s skeleton is continuing to change from soft cartilage to bone by the process called ossification and they can even move their joints. Baby’s head is still big in proportion with the rest of their body. Eyebrows, eyelashes and the hairs on your Baby’s scalp continue to grow. Your Baby’s eye lids
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Welcome To Week 18 Of Your Pregnancy. What’s Happening This Week? Week 18 is a very exciting time as your Baby begins a very active phase of her life. There is still plenty of room in the womb as baby turns and stretches, kicks and punches. Head to rump, your baby is about 5 1/2 inches long (about the size of a mango) and
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Welcome to Week 19 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening With Baby this Week? Today we are talking about the exciting developments that are happening with you and your baby during the 19th week of pregnancy! This week, a waterproof protective substance called vernix caseosa or just vernix for short is developing. Vernix is a thick white fatty substance that is secreted by sebaceous glands
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Welcome to Week 20 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening With Your Baby During Week 20? So at this time, Baby’s growth has actually slowed down but Baby is still has a lot of maturing to do. The organs and systems have long been in place but need to further develop before baby is ready to be born. This week’s major milestone is that baby is
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Welcome to Week 21 Of Your Pregnancy! Lets start this week off by talking a little bit about what is happening with baby: Your baby is measuring about 7 1/4 inches (18 centimeters) and weighing approximately 10 ounces or 3 grams, about the size of a banana. By now you probably feel more than tiny flutters as he squirms about in your womb. Babies
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Welcome to Week 22 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening With You During Week 22 (5th Month)? As the weeks of your pregnancy go by, you might notice the numbers on the scale adding up. There is no need to worry as this is healthy and normal. It’s typical to gain half a pound a week ( .2 kilograms) from here on out. The fundus,
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Welcome to Week 23 Of Your Pregnancy! What is Happening With Baby This Week? By the 23rd week of pregnancy, the average baby is 11 inches or 26 cm from head to toe. She weighs approximately one pound or close to 500 grams which is about the size of this eggplant and she will only keep getting plumper. Your baby is finally starting to
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Welcome to Week 24 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening Your Baby This Week? At week 24, Your baby is topping the charts at around 8.5 to 13 inches or 21 to 33 centimeters in length and 1-2 pounds (.5- .9 kilograms), gaining a whopping 4-6 ounces each week and, what’s even more amazing? She can take breaths! Practice breaths, that is. Your little one
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Welcome to Week 25 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening This Week? Your darling baby is now tipping the scales at 1.5 pounds or just under 700 grams with a length of 9-13 inches or 23-34 centimeters. Remember that all babies can differ in size at any fetal stage from 11 to 40 weeks so our measurements are just approximate. Okay, not only is she
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Welcome to Week 26 of Your Pregnancy Congratulations you are in your last trimester. Your little kickboxer is developing quite a bit these days and continuing to fatten up. He is anywhere fom 9 to 14 inches or 23 to 36 centimeters and weighs an incredible 2 pounds or .9 kilograms. Up till now most of the increase in baby’s weight has been
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