5 Weeks Pregnant: Preparing for a Healthy Pregnancy
Your baby is still pretty small about the size of a beauty mark. He resembles a small tadpole as the beginnings of a spinal A develop and form a tail. His umbilical cord has formed, and your placenta is hard at work helping to deliver nutrients and keeping the bad stuff away from his fragile body. Perhaps you […]
11 Weeks Pregnant: Breaking The News To Coworkers
Additionally, he’s starting to form teeth buds beneath his gums, and his bones are getting nice and strong. He’ll be exercising his new limbs a lot now, kicking, stretching and moving about, even though it will be another four to eight weeks before you can feel him. His body is also preparing for life on […]
9 Weeks Pregnant: Time to Go Bra Shopping
If you could view your baby in detail, you might see that the tail formed by his spine, called the embryonic tail, is now gone. You’d also observe that he has little earlobes and fully formed eyes, even though his lids will stay fused shut until around week 27. Things you wouldn’t quite be able […]
6 Weeks Pregnant: Emotional Ups and Downs
And that circulatory system that was just starting to form last week? Well, this week it may be fully functioning, with a tiny heart pulsing 100 to 160 times each minute. Additionally, she’s starting to develop buds that will eventually grow into arms and legs, as well as a pituitary gland that will spur the […]
1 Week Pregnant: Preparing Your Body For Pregnancy
Week one of pregnancy begins on the first day of your last menstrual period, even though you haven’t actually conceived yet. This is the time when your doctor will begin counting down your 40 weeks of pregnancy. Confusing, isn’t it? So why do we jump the gun on the countdown? Because each time you have […]
7 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby’s Brain Cells Are Quickly Forming
His brain isn’t all that’s coming along; she’s also growing other integral organs, such as a heart and kidneys. In fact, he likely has a heart rateof about 100 beats per minute at this point. Additionally, your baby may be developing a tongue, arms and legs. Toward the end of your seventh week, your child is nearly […]
2 Weeks Pregnant: Optimizing Your Chances For Fertilization
At week two, your menstrual period has ended and your uterine lining is thickening as your egg ripens, getting ready to be released into your fallopian tube. If all goes according to plan, toward the end of this week your egg should be perfectly positioned for fertilization. Fertilization is the moment when the sperm makes […]
No Alcohol During Pregnancy, Pediatricians Urge
While some studies have hinted that a little alcohol might be harmless during pregnancy, a leading U.S. pediatricians’ group has issued a new warning that no amount of drinking is safe while pregnant. “The only guarantee of having no effects from alcohol is no prenatal alcohol exposure,” said Dr. Janet Williams, a professor of pediatrics […]
3 Weeks Pregnant: Spotting The First Signs Of Pregnancy
After your egg is fertilized (and so now known as a zygote), it makes an astounding transformation by dividing several times and turning into a ball of cells about the size of a grain of sand. This cluster is called a blastocyst, and it will now travel from your fallopian tube to your uterus, the […]
10 Weeks Pregnant: Alleviating Morning Sickness
What is morning sickness? For many mums-to-be, a dash to the bathroom to be sick is one of the first signs of pregnancy. During early pregnancy, up to nine out of 10 women will feel sick or be sick at some point. So if you spend your early weeks of pregnancy feeling anything but blooming, you’re […]
4 Weeks Pregnant: Suspecting Successful Conception
The embryo will eventually turn into a fetus, but for now it’s about the size of a very small freckle, and the amniotic sac is forming around it. Encapsulating the tiny new life is the placenta, which will help deliver nutrients to your developing baby and carry away waste. Embryos have three layers, which will ultimately make […]
Hair Loss During Pregnancy?
It has a name: Telogen Effluvium. Though the term isn’t well known, it’s one of the most persistent complaints of new mothers. A woman’s hair is typically fuller and thicker during pregnancy, but often that’s not the case after delivery. Telogen effluvium is the excessive shedding of hair that occurs approximately one to five months […]