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Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 1

At the first moth of pregnancy, the sperm and egg join in your fallopian tube to form a unique human being and that what we call fertilization, with 46 chromosome combined which pre-determine all of a person’s physical characteristics.

The developing embryo will search for a comfort and nice place to implant, washed into your uterus, with only only one-sixth of an inch long and keep growing quickly.

With no larger than a poppy seed, the heart has been beating since day 18 when you are just four days late for your menstrual period, and by 21 days it is pumping, through its own closed circulatory system, blood whose type is different from yours. Read more!

Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 2

Baby Embryo month 2By 8 weeks, the embryo grows to 1/2 an inch, with the major muscles system develops and although you can’t feel it yet, she moves gracefully like a good swimmer. The embryo is perfectly developed with long, tapering fingers, feet and toes and whose skin is almost transparent with a highway of delicate arteries and veins visible to the ends of the fingers.

By 10 weeks 20 tiny baby teeth are forming in the gums, she squints, swallows, moves her tongue, and if you stroke her palm, will make a tight fist. The toes will develop in the next few days and brain waves can be measured. Read more!


Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 3

baby embryo month 3Your baby is now in its fetal stage and measures 2 1/2 to 3 inches in length by the second trimester. She is fully formed the heart rate can be heard with a special instrument called a Doppler.

Actually, the body of the unborn baby is more complex than ours. This preborn baby has several extra parts to his body which he needs only so long as he lives inside his mother. With his own rounded space capsule, the amniotic sac.. Read more!

Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 4

baby embryo month 4
Your baby is coated with soft downy hair called “lanugo” and start to come in at 7 inches in length and 6 to 7 ounces in weight.

Fine hair, eyelashes, and fingerprints are all complete and this girl is all made up now as a baby boy/ girl.

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Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 5

baby embryo month 5By 20 weeks your baby will have grown to 1 pound (454g) and though still small and fragile she can hear and recognize her mother’s voice, it is your voice!

And you will be feeling that the baby move even more and using an by using ultrasound device, the doctor can tell if the child is a girl or a boy. Read more!

Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 6

baby embryo month 6The tender skin of the baby is now covered by a waxy substance called “vernix” and the baby start to continue to practice breathing by inhaling amniotic fluid in preparation for the big day when she takes her first breath of air.

Her eyes begin to part and open occasionally for short periods of time. Hiccups are no uncommon.

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Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 7

baby embryo month 7By month’s end, your baby is 14 to 16 inches long with weigh 2.5 up to 3.5 pounds. The organs continue to mature and taste buds have developed.

If you expose your belly to a bright light you may get a quick reaction.

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When you see the fetal baby on ultrasound and the mother starts to laugh, you can see the baby, floating upside down in the womb, bounce up and down on its head, bum-bum-bum, like its bouncing on a trampoline.
When mothers watch this on the screen, they laugh harder, and the fetus goes up and down even faster. What a gift and you got to wonder if this is why we grow up liking roller coasters so much.

Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 8

baby embryo month 8Your baby may gain as much as a half a pound per week and the overall growth still continue rapid this month.

Weighing in at 4 up to 6 pounds, most body organs of the baby are now developed with the exception of the lungs and if the baby kicks, you will not only feel it but also be able to see it on the outside. Read more!

Pregnancy Month by Month - Month 9

baby embryo month 9The baby settles down lower in the abdomen at this point in preparation for birth and may seem less active.

Her lungs are mature and at approximately 8 pounds is ready for life outside your womb. Soon you’ll see her face to face!

Water Fitness During Pregnancy

During pregnancy , woman and fetus benefit from the increased supplies of oxygen in the blood during exercise. Expectant mothers who find exercising on land quite uncomfortable, especially in the last couple of months before delivery, can work out comfortably when freed of gravity. It is a rare OB/GYN who will not grant hearty approval to a floating fitness program.

With water fitness around the hips, even pregnant women who were previously afraid of the water enjoy play and exercise in a pool, promoting muscle tone, raising heart rate and contributing to the health and development of the child.

Online Pregnancy Test

Ever heard about online pregnancy test? It’s quite interesting because it can help you to assess your pregnancy possibility and consider taking a home pregnancy test and this kind of pregnancy test isn’t based on scientific analysis of your blood or urine.

Some of online pregnancy tests are alike, but some have something different method. They will give you list of possible symptoms and allow you to decide if you have any of these. They will give you a possible due date for your baby if you are indeed pregnant by using the date of your last period as a guide marker. It leaves the information on the likelihood up to you to decide as they don’t give it. Read more!

Improving Sleep During Pregnancy

pregnancy sleepFor most pregnant women, other biggest challenges is to find a comfortable and getting enough rest, as it affect more than 72 percent of pregnant women.

At second and third trimesters (20 weeks and beyond), lower back pain and stomach discomfort often increase. Sleeping on the back is discouraged because of compression of the uterus on the large blood vessels (inferior vena cava) and on the intestines will cause a decreased blood flow and oxygen to the baby. Read more!

Pregnancy And Hair Coloring

Many women like bleaching, dying or highlighting their hair and can be a regular part of their beauty regime for your hair style. Many experts now contend the dyes are most likely safe and women don’t neet to be afraid to color their hair during pregnancy. And don’t be surprised if your doctor still suggests you approach hair coloring with caution. for your women lifestyle

The dye is absorbed through the scalp and into the body, as it identified in urine, that’s why some medical experts are hesitant to give carte blanche to hair coloring during all three trimesters of pregnancy.
But during the first trimester of your pregnancy, when your baby is undergoing important neurological developments, many physicians advise holding off coloring hair with permanent dyes. Coloring can then be resumed in the second or third trimester. Read more!

Pregnancy Exercise

What exactly pregnancy exercise do? If exercise is good for you without a huge belly, it can only help you and the baby, when you’re pregnant?

Regular exercise actually does for a woman’s body to tones and strengthens muscles, avoid back aches, and which also supports those joints that loosen due to the hormones that flow for nine months. Exercise will increase the endorphins production, it’s the natural “good feeling” chemical produced by our brains. Also can wear off little extra adrenalin that could cause you to be anxious or fidgety and unable to sleep. The increased blood flow by the pregnant exercise also good for all your organs, including your skin.

So what kind of pregnancy exercises can you do? It depends on your health before, and during the pregnancy. Read more!

Brushing Teeth When Pregnant, Important?

pregnancy teethDo you know that pregnant women with gum disease problems are much more likely to have premature babies with low-birth weight?
It may result from the transfer of bacterial microbes in the mother’s mouth to the baby during the third trimester of pregnancy.
Through the placenta, the microbes can reach the baby (placenta is a temporary organ that joining the mother and fetus which supplies the fetus with blood and nutrients), through the amniotic fluid (fluid around the fetus), and through the layer of tissues in the mother’s stomach.

Every expectant pregnant mother should have a complete oral exam prior to or very early in pregnancy. You must notice that all needed dental work should be managed early, because having urgent treatment during pregnancy can present risks. Read more!