Pregnancy

In pregnancy, an unborn baby spends around 38-42 weeks in the mother's womb. As the pregnancy period is calculated on the basis of first day of the last period of the expecting mom.

Pregnancy is wondrous and miraculous experience in a woman's life and tracking the pregnancy week by week ensures that your baby and your pregnant body gets proper and adequate care.

Pregnancy week by week guides are available on numerous sites and you can also get your own week by week pregnancy guide from your own medical practitioner. The week by week pregnancy guides provides detailed information about the biological changes that are expected in these 40 weeks within the body of the pregnant woman and it also tracks the physical growth of the embryo.

Conception to 12 weeks of pregnancy

This is the early stage of a pregnancy. In 1st 3 weeks, most of early signs of pregnancy are visible. Within these 12 weeks of pregnancy a foetus grows more than 7 cm in length. The fingers and toes are recognizable, but still stuck together with webs of skin, eyes, mouth and tongue forms in these first 12 weeks of pregnancy.

The brain is active and has brain waves. The baby can now mutely cry, since it has vocal cords. You can see the baby sucking its thumb through ultrasound scan.

13-24 weeks of pregnancy

Baby starts moving inside mother's womb. The foetus is grows up to 33 cm in this stage of pregnancy. The muscles of the baby develop further. Now the baby can hear muffled sound from outside world as its ears are fully functioning.

The genital can be distinguished with an ultrasound scan. The fused eyelids of baby new separate into upper and lower lids. The baby can now open and shut its eyes. The baby breathes amniotic fluid in and out of its lungs.

20-40 weeks of pregnancy

Within 38 weeks of conception baby grows around 51 cm in length. The growing body now seems more in proportion with the baby's head. In earlier stages of pregnancy baby's head is comparably larger than the body. A rapid development of lungs is prominent.

Its movement is stronger and more coordinated. The baby spends most of its time in sleep. At end of this stage of pregnancy the hormones secreted by the baby triggers the labor.

Hence you can now say a week by week pregnancy can really help you in tracking the growth of the baby in a proper and more coordinated way.

While pregnancy a woman's body goes through a number of incredible changes, so it's absolutely must proper prenatal care should be provided to the baby as well as the mother. Pregnancy will be the period when a mother will develop a life long emotional attachment with the baby, who will change her life forever.Therefore we can say pregnancy and birth remains the most amazing, life changing event for any woman.