Pregnancy Week 30
How big is your baby? Your baby will be weighing in at around 2.91 pounds (1.319kg) and measuring 15.71inches (39.9cm). How big are you? Your uterus now sits about 4 inches (10 cm) above your bellybutton and about 12inches (23cm) above your pubic symphysis. At this stage of your pregnancy you may feel as if you are beginning to run outof room or that you may actually explode at any minute. Not to worry, you only haveanother 10 weeks to go . The bad news is that your uterus, placenta and baby willget bigger, although you will certainly not explode.…
Pregnancy Week 29
How big is your baby? Your baby will be weighing in at around 2.54 pounds (1.153kg) and measuring 15.2inches (38.6cm). How big are you? Your uterus now sits about 2.75-3.93 inches (7.5-10cm) above your bellybutton andabout 11.4 inches (29cm) above your pubic symphysis. Your total weight gain by this week should be around 18- 27 pounds (8.5-12.25kg). How is your baby developing and growing Your babys lungs will be developed enough that he/she would be able to breath air.Your babys brain is now developed enough that it can control rhythmic breathing,and so if your baby were to be born now,…
Pregnancy Week 28
How big is your baby? Your baby will be weighing in at around 2.22 pounds (1.005kg) and measuring 14.80 inches (37.6cm). Just to think, about 11 weeks ago your baby only weighed in at around 5.35 ounces (100g)! How big are you? Your uterus may be well above your umbilicus by now. In some pregnancies growth may be slow and others, it may seem, as if it has happened over night. Your uterus will be about 3.14 inches (8cm) above your bellybutton, about 11.02 inches (28cm) from pubic symphysis to the top of your uterus. As your uterus continues to…
Pregnancy Week 27
How big is your baby? Congratulations! This week is the beginning of yourthird trimester. Your baby now weighs 1.93 pounds (875g) and measures from headto toe at around 14.41 inches (36.6cm). How big are you? Your uterus is about 2.75inches (7cm) above your bellybutton and more than 10.62inches (27cm) above your pubic symphysis. How is your baby developing and growing Your baby's eyes first appear at around 5 weeks aftergestation and look like a pair of shallow grooves on each side of the brain. Thesegrooves continue to develop and will turn into pockets, called optical vesicles,of which the lenses will…
Pregnancy Week 26
How big is yourbaby? Your growing baby now measures around 14.02 inches (35.6cm) and weighs about 1.68 pounds (760g). How big are you? Your uterus is about 2.36 inches (6cm) above your bellybutton or about 10.23inches (26cm) from your pubic symphysis. In the second half of your pregnancy youwill be growing nearly 0.39inches (1cm) each week and if you have been followinga balanced, nutritious meal plan you would have put on a total of between 16 and22 pounds (7.2 and 9.9kg). How is your baby developing and growing Your babynow has some sort of sleeping pattern. You may find that…
Pregnancy Week 25
How big is yourbaby? The measurement is now at around 13.62 inches (34.6cm) and your baby is nowweighing approximately 1.46 pounds (660g). How big are you? Your uterus now measures 9.84 inches (25cm) from the pubic symphysis to thetop of your uterus, and would probably be about the size of a small soccer ballby now. How is your baby developing and growing If you were to go into labor now, your baby would have a strong chance of surviving. Some of thegreatest advances in medicine over the past years has been the care of premature babies. Your baby is still…
Pregnancy Week 24
How big is your baby? The measurement is now at around 11.81 inches (30cm) and your baby is now weighingapproximately 1.32 pounds (600g). How big are you? Your uterus should be about 2 inches (5.1cm) above your belly button by now,which is almost 9.4 inches (24cm) above your pubic symphysis. How is your baby developing and growing Your baby is starting to fill out and his/her face and body will be startingto look more like that of an infant at birth with each passing day, even if it onlyweighs a little over a pound and is still tiny. Most of…
Pregnancy Week 23
Howbig is your baby? The measurement is now at around 11.38 inches (28.9cm) and your baby isnow weighing approximately 1.10 pounds (501g). How big are you? Your uterus should now be about 1.18 inches (3cm) above your bellybutton andabout 9.05 inches (23cm) above your pubic symphysis this week. Your total weight gainat this stage of your pregnancy should by now be about 12 to 15 pounds (5.5kg-6.8kg) How is your baby developing and growing Your baby's body will start getting plumper and wrinkled and any lanugo hairmay start to turn darker at this time. His/Her eyebrows and eyelids are well…
Pregnancy Week 22
Howbig is your baby? The head to heel measurement is now at around 10.94 inches (27.8cm) and your babyis now weighing approximately 15.17 ounces (430g). By the end of this week yourbaby will be about the size of a Barbie doll. How big are you? Your uterus should now be about 0.78 inches (2cm) above your bellybutton and about8.66 inches (22cm) above your pubic symphysis this week. You may be feeling comfortably pregnant now as most women tend to enjoy the second trimester of their pregnancy, as most of the early pregnancy symptoms would have left them and they are…
Pregnancy Week 21
How big is your baby? From this week on we can measure the baby from head to heel. It will now be around10.51 inches (26.7cm ) and will weigh 12.70 ounces (360g). How big are you? Your uterus should now be about 1cm above your bellybutton this week. By this weekyour waist line would have completely disappeared and friends, family and even strangerswill know that you are pregnant. How is your baby developing and growing Your baby's digestive system is already functioning in a simple way. At thisstage your baby can swallow amniotic fluid, absorb much of the water in…