The Twenty-Second Week of Pregnancy

May 7, 2010

Baby’s Development Pay close attention to when your fetus is active and when it is quiet. At this time, your baby’s sleep patterns are ‘set’ and after it is born, they will remain similar. If your baby moves a great deal in the early evening and in the middle of the night, you can be [...]

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The Sixteenth Week of Pregnancy

May 5, 2010

Baby’s Development Your baby has grown from no bigger than the head of a pin to the size of an avocado in 16 short weeks! At this stage, the average fetus weighs 4 ounces and is approximately five inches long. Its head is finally upright and with the development of a neck, the torso is [...]

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The Tenth Week of Pregnancy

May 3, 2010

Baby’s Development Congratulations, you are now the proud mother of a fetus! From zygote to blasocyst to embryo, your baby has undergone massive changes in the last ten weeks. Having passed safely through these growth spurts, your little one is well on the way to baby status. You can also allow yourself to relax a [...]

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The Fourth Week of Pregnancy

May 1, 2010

Baby’s development As your Zygote makes it’s way down to your uterus, it’s changing already! From a single egg and a single sperm, it’s becoming a complex mass of more 60- 100 individual cells. Now much more than a fertilized egg, your baby is known as a blastocyst and it contains both an inner cell [...]

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