Women Pregnancy

By 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!

Your 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!

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!

A 1997 British study conducted by researchers at the Royal Postgraduate Medical School found that a woman’s brain shrinks during pregnancy.
The changes recorded by the scientists reflected differences in the volume of women’s brain cells, rather than in the number of cells present, perhaps explaining why some woman experience bouts of forgetfulness and loss of concentration while pregnant. There are many theories about the reasons for this phenomenon, but it appears that the true explanation has been overlooked…

As any pregnant woman will tell you, brain shrinkage is necessary to ensure that your sanity remains intact.
Reduced brainpower first becomes a blessing when your doctor tells you that pregnancy is not an illness and that there is absolutely no reason why it should prevent you from living your life as usual. Luckily, with your shorter concentration span, you fail to remember that morning sickness has been preventing you from eating breakfast, lunch and dinner for the last two months. Read more!