Week 11
One of the most common worries for pregnant women is weight gain. This can easily be controlled with a healthy diet and exercise. Nourishing your baby usually requires…

Week 17
Your baby now measures about 4.7 inches (12 centimeters) and 3.5 ounces (100 grams), and weighs more than the placenta. She is starting to develop brown fat deposits under…

Week 19
At week 19, your baby clocks in at 8 ounces. If you are having a girl, her ovaries now contain primitive egg cells. Lanugo appears all over the baby’s…

Week 9
Your baby will now be between 0.9 to 1.2 inches (22 to 30 millimeters) and weighs around 0.14 ounces (4 grams). The elbows should also be fully developed by…

Week 21
Your baby now weighs about 13 ounces. She is still able to move about inside the amniotic fluid, and will only settle down towards the end of this trimester,…

Week 15
Your baby now weighs about 70 grams. Because the skin develops very thin, you can see the blood vessels right through it. A lot of blood is pumping through…

Week 13
Your baby will now be weighing 28 grams, about one ounce. The intestines are now starting to move from the umbilical cord to the stomach, and the villi are…

Week 23
Yay! Your baby hit the one pound mark! It’s little body is becoming more and more proportionate every week.

The bones of the middle ear are beginning to harden.…

Week 3
Your baby continues to grow and develop this week. Over the past week, the fertilized egg has divided into hundreds of cells and is now called a blastocyst. The…

Week 25
Your baby’s fully developed hands, complete with tiny fingernails, are now feeling the surroundings, including his or her own skin and even the umbilical cord. Your baby’s dexterity is…

Week 6
Four weeks after conception, your baby is now really starting to grow at a rapid rate, with the umbilical cord starting to form. The neural tube along your…

Week 7
Five weeks after conception, Your baby is now already the size of a grain of rice, about of 0.2 to 0.52 inches (5 to 13 millimeters) in length…

Week 4
Two weeks after conception, your baby is now an embryo. Now implanted into the uterine wall, the embryo will start to split into two groups. One group will form…

Week 5
The early stages are the most critical of pregnancy and so if you have not been avoiding all hazards that may affect your baby, now is the time to…

Week 18
Your baby will now be about 20 cm in length and about 7 ounces in weight. The bones are still hardening. Finger prints will begin forming shortly, as the…

Week 12
Your baby now weighs around 14 grams, has reflexes and because of muscular development, can even move its limbs! You would now be able to hear your baby’s heart…

Week 16
You may start to feel the baby moving around inside you now. These movements are becoming more coordinated. Your baby can hold his or her head erect, and the…

Week 20
The fetus now weighs about 9 ounces (260 grams) and measures 5.5 to 6.3 inches (14 to 16cm) from crown to rump. The baby’s growth is taking up increasing…

Week 22
During the 22nd week, your baby weighs about 15 ounces and is about 27cm in length. You baby would have formed eye brows and eyelids by now and her…

Week 8
Once you have confirmation of your pregnancy from a home pregnancy test or blood or urine test at the doctor’s office, you should call and schedule your first…

Week 14
Amazing things are happening between your baby and the amniotic fluid. This week, your baby has begun to urinate into the amniotic fluid. This means the amniotic fluid has…

  Week 10
You may still be feeling the early symptoms of pregnancy, but these should disappear shortly. Your waist line may now start to grow a little. Toes, ears and…

Week 24
Although your baby is still receiving oxygen through the placenta, once birth occurs, her lungs will start taking in oxygen on their own. In preparation for the outside world,…

Despite the fact that it is counted as part of pregnancy, you are not 2 weeks pregnant at this point. You haven’t even ovulated yet! At the end of this week, though,…

What’s Happening
After your partner ejaculates, millions of sperm will travel from the vagina to the fallopian tube where your egg is waiting. An enzyme is released that allows one sperm…