26th Week of Pregnancy
Is 16 to 23 pounds gain in weight in just 26 weeks healthy? Yes if you are in your 26th week of pregnancy. If you are taking healthy food, doing light exercise regularly, then it is considered as the healthy weight gain during pregnancy around 26th week. Your baby is giving you company in weight gain. She now weighs around 2 pounds and has gained height up to 13.35 to 13.38 inches.
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25th Week of Pregnancy
By 25th week of pregnancy, your baby weighs around 1 ½ to 1 ¾ pounds and is nearly 13 inches long. Your baby is gaining body fat and because of this wrinkles on her skin are lessening day by day. Most of the time you will find people telling you their guesses about gender of your baby by your appearance or weight gain. You can come to know about whether you are carrying baby boy or [...] Continue Reading…
24th Week of Pregnancy
24th week of pregnancy is very important for your baby as this is the time when your baby’s brain is developing rapidly. Lungs, taste buds are developing. This is the reason babies born before this week suffer from breathing related problems as their lungs did not get chance to develop properly. Amniotic fluid will increase and will continue to increase till delivery. Now your baby is more than 12 ½ inches in length. Her weight is [...] Continue Reading…
23rd Week of Pregnancy
By 23rd week of pregnancy your weight gain can be around eleven to sixteen pounds. Do not worry though; you will get the chance to reduce after delivery. Your baby is also gaining weight. She weighs around one pound and is almost 11 ¼ inches in length. Some of you can even notice darkened skin hair on your baby’s body during ultrasound. Your baby’s bones are getting stronger with other important organs like pancreas maturing.
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22nd Week of Pregnancy
Moms-to-be, you are now around 5 months pregnant. Your health care provider may ask you to visit him/her every week for check up. After a few weeks, your prenatal visits will increase as your health care provider will want you to come for the check ups regularly.
Your baby is now nearly 10 inches long and weighs almost 14 ounces. As each individual is different, each baby’s growth will be different at different stages of pregnancy. Therefore, [...] Continue Reading…
21st Week of Pregnancy
Congratulations moms-to-be! You have reached half the way of your destination. You have cleared your journey this far surviving most of the earlier months’ pregnancy symptoms. It is the time of pregnancy when you need to take enough rest to prevent swelling on your legs and feet by the end of the day. Though finding good sleeping position may seem difficult, schedule your day’s time in such a manner that you can sit down and relax [...] Continue Reading…
20th Week of Pregnancy
Come 20th week of pregnancy and all you expectant moms be prepared for lots of weight gain during this week and for rest of the pregnancy. You may gain half to one pound every week till your delivery. Gaining eight to ten pounds till now is quite normal. However it depends upon your pre-pregnancy weight. Your healthcare provider or doctor will give you good advice about your eating patterns if you have gained too much or [...] Continue Reading…
19th Week of Pregnancy
19th week of pregnancy is a very busy week for your baby. Though the baby grows continuously throughout the pregnancy, in this week this growth is more specific. Your baby is now about seven inches long and weighs around seven ounces.
If you are going to have a sweet little baby girl then her ovaries has already formed more than six million eggs which will decrease up to four million eggs by the time of her birth. [...] Continue Reading…
18th Week of Pregnancy
By 18th week of pregnancy, your body undergoes many changes. People can make out that you are pregnant by this time. Apart from these apparent changes, there are so many changes occurring in your body that others cannot recognize. Some of you may suffer from low blood pressure. However the good news is those of you were suffering from dizziness for last few weeks, may get some relief because of decrease in giddiness.
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17th Week of Pregnancy
In the 17th week of pregnancy, you can easily make out the changes in your appearance. Your stomach is taking the round shape and it is making other organs shift their respective places little bit to give some extra space to your growing baby and uterus. Your body is getting ready and becoming stronger for the rest of the weeks of pregnancy. It is time to start wearing the maternity cloths as you will feels more [...] Continue Reading…
16th Week of Pregnancy
The baby’s body will grow and is finally having a much larger head and body parts. The chin will look much thinner when compared to its mouth with a larger pair of eyes. However, they remain closed. The baby has learnt to suck his thumb and is now with more of human looks in nature. The baby starts developing fine downy hair all over the body and face. This is popularly termed as “lanugo” and this [...] Continue Reading…
15th Week of Pregnancy
It is in the 15th week of pregnancy, start of second trimester, when you generally start looking like a pregnant lady. It is the time when your stomach starts showing little bit. Though your baby, who is around four to five inches long, is moving very fast inside your womb you will have to wait for couple of more weeks to feel her move.
If it is not your first pregnancy, you can clearly notice your baby’s [...] Continue Reading…
14th Week of Pregnancy
It’s quite important for you to take extra care on the week 14 of pregnancy. Your unborn child starts feeding on your placenta from the 14th week of pregnancy. Usage of toxins often tends to sweep deep into the shin. Pregnant women should keep away from such cleansing agents as it can harm the unborn baby. Avoid cat faeces in and around the house as they tend to spread disease like Toxoplasmosis .This disease occurs in 14 weeks [...] Continue Reading…
13th Week of Pregnancy
This is the best week of pregnancy. You have just come out of high risk trimester. There is lesser possibility of miscarriage now. This is the time when you can share the news of your pregnancy with your elder kid/s. Visit your health care provider one more time to get your baby’s progress checked.
Fatigue will be accompanied by the heartburn, indigestion, discomfort or slight ache in the abdomen. Do not panic though. This is quite normal. [...] Continue Reading…
12th Week of Pregnancy
The baby is about 2.2 inches long and has a weight approximately up to half ounce. The baby tends to grow in a very fast pace and many changes will occur in the baby for the next months. The genitals of baby will show the signs of being a boy or a girl. The brain of baby begins to create hormones and cells of nervous system, which gets multiplied very soon. The baby even begins to [...] Continue Reading…