Welcome to Week 1 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening During This Week? During this first week of your pregnancy you are not really pregnant yet. This week is when you have your period and is actually pre-ovulation. During week one, your period, or menstruation, is when the shedding of the lining of the endometrium ( the uterine lining) takes place. Menstruation is also known as ‘menses’.
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Welcome to Week 2 of Your Pregnancy! Fertilization & Dates: Fertilization does not always announce itself so, the first day of your last menstrual period is how pregnancy dates are calculated even though you are not yet pregnant. Initially, under the influence of follicle stimulating hormone an egg develops inside a mature ovarian follicle. Serum estrogen rises by the follicle causing the functional layer
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Welcome to Week 3 Of Your Pregnancy: Ovulation At week 3, ovulation has occurred and the egg moves slowly into your fallopian tube, a tube that connects your ovary and uterus. Here is where it awaits fertilization by a sperm. Fimbriae, finger like structures that are located between your ovary and fallopian tube catch the egg when ovulation occurs and helps keep it on
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Welcome to Week 4 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening During Week 4: It is uncertain how sperm finds the egg. Some think the sperm might even have a sense of smell. Once the sperm penetrates the egg and the centre of each unite, the magic of fertilization has taken place. This single cell will develop into trillions of cells, in fact to over 200
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Welcome to Week 5 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening During Week 5: Congratulations you have missed your period and the pregnancy test is positive. What makes a pregnancy test positive? Pregnancy is a time of great hormonal activiity. Your existing hormones raise dramatically and new ones are produced to support the pregnancy in the early days. The pregnancy hormone, called human chorionic gonadatropin or (HCG)
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Welcome to Week 6 of Your Pregnancy! The Embryonic Stage Week 6 is the first week of the what we consider the embryonic stage. The embryonic phase is a time during which all major internal and external structures begin to form. Although most organ function remains minimal the cardiovascular system develops rapidly and a beating heart can be detected by ultrasound. The appearance of
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Welcome to Week 7 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening During Week 7 ? At this stage of your pregnancy your baby continues to grow rapidly. The umbilical cord, containing two arteries and one vein is clearly visible. Nutrients and oxygen rich blood pass from the amazing placenta to your baby by way of a single vein. The waste products and deoxygenated blood are sent
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Welcome To Week 8 Of Your Pregnancy! What Is Happening During Week 8? Your baby is continuing to grow rapidly. The fingers and toes have begun to develop. Baby’s arms and legs are becoming more defined and are growing in length. Little webbed paddle shaped hands and feet can be identified, although the hands tend to mature faster than the feet. The joints of the upper and
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Welcome to Week 9 Of Your Pregnancy What Is Happening With Baby This Week? The embryonic tail is shrinking and will soon be gone so this week your Baby is starting to look less like a tadpole and more like a human and is about one inch long or about the size of a grape. The heart finishes dividing into four chambers, and the valves
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Welcome to Week 10 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening With Your Baby During Week 10? During this exciting time, all of your Baby’s vital organs have completed the most critical portion of their development. The embryonic tail is completely gone. The fingers and toes are no longer webbed but are completely formed and separated.The tissue that was webbed between the fingers and toes disappear
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Welcome to Week 11 of Your Pregnancy: What’s Happening During Week 11? Week 11 is the first week that your Baby is officially described as a fetus. During the weeks leading up to week 11, the embryonic stage of your pregnancy, your Baby has seen it’s most dramatic changes and has developed over 200 kinds of different cells. Your Baby’s ears are moving up
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Welcome to Week 12 of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening With Your Baby During Week 12? Week 12 of your pregnancy is a very exciting time, as this week marks the end of your first trimester! This week, your Baby’s face takes on further definition and the chin and nose are more defined. Your Baby also has finger and toe nails. The arms and legs
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Welcome to Week 13 of Your Pregnancy. What is Happening During Week 13? This marks the beginning of your 2nd trimester! All of your Baby’s organs, nerves and muscles are formed and are beginning to function together. At week 13, bony tissue is developing around the head, within the upper and lower extremities and within tiny ribs. The facial features are clearly identifiable although
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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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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 in Baby’s skin. This substance coats your
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