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Pregnancy is about creating life, an extraordinary gift given to women. A pregnant woman experiences a lot of changes in her body, not the least the expanding waistline. These changes are natural, along with stretch marks, and weight gain, among others. One of the best ways to a healthy pregnancy is to remain happy. Increase your level of happiness by maintaining a positive mindset, even though certain changes that occur in your body may be unpleasant.
The Changes During Pregnancy
You undergo many emotional and physical changes during pregnancy. Many women start a pregnancy journal recording all they go through, and all that they feel. The changes occur right from the time you notice your first early pregnancy symptom.
You need to understand the changes that occur inside your body during pregnancy, week by week. For that, the pregnancy is divided into three stages of three trimesters each – from weeks 1 to 14, weeks 15 to 26, and from weeks 27 to 40.
During the first trimester, your egg gets fertilized, the implantation of the embryo happens, and you start to feel the morning sickness by the 27th day. In this trimester the embryo’s head starts to form, and the development of lung linings, tongue, bladder, digestive tract, muscles, bones, heart, lungs, spleen, the skin, nails, hair, eye lens, nose, and mouth, among other parts, start. The heart begins to beat during this period. By the 10th week, your embryo is now a baby. By the 14th week, your areolas begin to change – they become larger and darker.
During the second trimester, your baby’s muscles become stronger, and its toenails begin to grow. Your baby’s eyes and ears will be in their right places. If your baby is going to be a girl, it is during this period, in the 19th week, that her primitive egg cells begin to develop in her ovaries. The scalp hair and eyebrow formation will begin. By the 21st week, you can detect your baby’s heartbeat with a stethoscope. If your baby is a boy, by week 22, his testes will begin to move into his scrotum. By the end of this trimester, the baby’s brain wave activity starts.
During the third trimester, your baby’s eyelids un-fuse, and its eyelashes have grown. It now starts storing the nutrients taken in by you. The internal organs are still developing and maturing. The five senses are registering, though the sense of smell is limited. The baby starts to develop its own immune system by week 34. By week 35, it re-positions in a head down position.
The baby could born from any time from week 38 onwards, as 85 percent of the babies are born within two weeks of their actual due date.
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