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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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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Welcome to Week 28 Of Your Pregnancy: This week typically marks the beginning of your third trimester! Although your bundle of joy appears to be fully developed, there are still a few more hurdles before the big day. Your second trimester symptoms continue to linger on, and unfortunately, many of them will magnify in the third trimester. Add a fresh batch of symptoms such
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Welcome to Week 29 of Your Pregnancy: What’s happening With Baby This Week? Your little peanut is not so little anymore as she weighs in at almost three pounds (1.3 kilograms) and measures just over fifteen inches or 38 centimeters and is about the size of this butternut squash. In fact, as she continues to accumulate fat deposits under her skin, you might feel
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Welcome to Week 30 (The Seventh Month) What Is Happening With Baby This Week: Your little one has not changed in length all that much since week 29 but is still putting on weight and weighs in at around 3 pounds or 1.4 kilos. Baby is moving around in just over a pint of amniotic fluid, but as space becomes more cramped with Baby’s
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Welcome To Week 31 (seventh month) Of Your Pregnancy! What’s Happening With Baby This Week? Developments in Baby This week Your baby is the size of a pineapple. Your pineapple is approximately 16 inches (40.6 centimeters) long and just over 3 pounds in weight (1.5 kilograms). Please remember these sizes are just guidelines as all babies are a little different because parents come in
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Welcome to Week 32 (The Eighth Month) Of Your Pregnancy! Developments in Baby: Growing by Leaps and Bounds Baby weighs approximately 3.75 pounds (1.7 kilograms) and measures 16.7 inches (42.4 centimeters) in length. This is a life like model of a 32 week fetus and is about the size of a butternut squash. Research has argued that there is little difference between the brain
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Welcome To Week 33 (The Eighth Month) Of Your Pregnancy Developments in Baby: Outstanding Growth Your baby has surpassed 4 pounds (approximately 2 kilograms), and is making his way to 17 inches or (43 centimeters) in length and he still has a ways to go before he is born. In fact, he may grow an entire inch this week. He is keeping his eyes open
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Welcome to Week 34 Of Your Pregnancy! Your baby is weighing in at around 2.3 kilos or around 5 pounds and about 18 inches long or about 45 centimeters from head to toe and about the size of a large butternut squash. This is day 232 of your pregnancy and that means only 48 more days to go. Your Baby continues to make all
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Week 35 (The Eighth Month) Of Your Pregnancy Your baby is the size of a coconut.1 Developments in Baby: Finishing Touches Your baby is just over 18 inches (45.7 centimeters) this week and weighs about 5.5 pounds (2.5 kilograms). Baby is almost ready to enter the world! If Baby were born today, he or she would have a very good chance of survival. Babys
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Week 36 Of Your Pregnancy (Month 9) Your baby is the size of a honeydew melon.2 Developments in Baby All Systems Are a Go Your baby weighing in at almost 6 pounds (2.7 kilograms), but the inches are slowing down dramatically. Baby is nearly at his full height or thereabouts—just upwards of 18 inches (45.7cm). Baby continues to gain an ounce a day.1,2,3 She
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Welcome To Week 37 of Your Pregnancy! This week your baby is the size of a winter melon. Final Countdown is on! Baby has reached full height—somewhere between 19-21 inches (48.3-53.3 centimeters). Weight is about 6.5 pounds (2.9 kilograms) and is still gaining at half an ounce per day. Labor: Although it is unclear what triggers labor, when your body is ready, Baby will
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Your Pregnancy: Week 38 (The Ninth Month) Your baby is the size of a pumpkin.1 Developments in Baby Packing on the Fat Your pumpkin is a massive 6 pounds, thirteen ounces (3 kilograms) and measuring in around 19.5 inches (50 centimeters) long. Baby’s tiny, round head is approximately the same circumference as his abdomen. Baby is losing the vernix caseosa (a white, cheese-like covering)
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Your Pregnancy: Week 39 (The Ninth Month) Your baby is the size of a watermelon.1 Developments in Baby: Ready for the World Your “little one”—perhaps the idea of delivery makes Baby seem quite large—can be anywhere from 6 to 9 pounds at this point but is averaging out at 7 to 7.5 pounds (3.25 to 3.4 kilograms) and measuring 21.5 inches (54.6 centimeters).1,2,3 Baby’s
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Week 40 (The Ninth Month) Developments in Baby: Still Growing Your baby tips the scales at an average of 7 to 8 pounds (3.2 to 3.6 kilograms) and is a very long 18 to 20.5 inches (45.7 to 52 centimeters) from head to toe. It is common for babies to be smaller or larger than this estimate, but rest assured that your little one
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Giving Birth & The Pregnancy Final Thoughts Hi I’m Monica Healy from Pregnancychat.com, thanks for watching our 40 week series video. I just want to take this time to go over some final thoughts about this amazing 40 week journey. In just over nine months Baby’s brain has grown around 100 billion neurons, with 100 trillion connections. Although it was the first organ to
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