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Week By Week

Pregnancy, Week Thirty-Six

Baby’s Development For the next four weeks your baby will gain approximately 0.5 pounds per week. Not only does this help her become plump and adorable, but it increases her resistance to disease in the outside world. Your antibodies are also being passed to her at this stage as she is starting to cultivate a more [...]

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Pregnancy, Week Thirty

 Baby’s Development At this stage, a fetus will be approximately 15.7 inches long. Growth in terms of length will now begin to slow down as the need for weight takes precedence. Floating around in almost a half a liter of amniotic fluid, your baby is becoming a little cramped, so expect kicking and punching movement [...]

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Pregnancy, Week Twenty-Four

Baby’s Development The fetus inside of you weighs more than a brick of butter and will gain a further 6 ounces this week! Your little one is putting on weight as it adds layers of comforting, healthy fat to its previously scant frame. Every day that goes by it becomes more proportioned and recognizable as [...]

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Pregnancy, Week Eighteen

Baby’s Development At this stage, your fetus can kick, swallow and sleep. Although still primarily cartilage, its skeletal system is continuing to ossify (harden) daily. The little chest moves up and down as it prepares to breathe and its heart pumps an average of 25-30 quarts of blood a day. Not bad for a human [...]

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Pregnancy, Week Twelve

This is a week to celebrate for many reasons. First and foremost, your chance of miscarriage after this week drops significantly.  Because your little one is now fully formed, chance of your body rejecting the fetus is much lower than it was in the beginning of the trimester. From tiny toenails to tooth buds buried [...]

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Pregnancy Week Six

Baby’s Development Your embryo is at its most delicate these few weeks! The groundwork for all its major organs is being laid and external factors can play a very big part in how hearty these systems are in the future. It’s been proven that the time between 17 and 56 days is the most vulnerable [...]

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