Your Pregnancy Week by week

  Weeks 1-3 The magic moment when sperm and egg fuse (otherwise known as fertilization) results in a zygote, a single-cell organism made up of genetic material from both you and your partner pregnancy Week 4   Your little ball of cells is splitting into two groups this week. One will become your son or daughter while the other becomes the placenta — the lifeline that channels nutrients to your baby and carries waste away. Week 5  Your baby now resembles a teeny tadpole (complete with a tiny tail) and is about the size of an orange seed. The circulatory (or blood) system, along with the heart, is the first part of that tiny body to be functional; and as your baby’s heart starts to form, you may even be able to see it beating on an early ultrasound.  Another part of your little tadpole that is under construction: the neural tube, which will eventually become your baby’s brain and spinal cord.   Week 6 Your baby’s jaw, cheeks, chin, eyes, ears, and nose are beginning to form what will eventually become one adorable face. In addition, her kidneys, liver, and lungs are developing, and her heart is now beating 80 times a minute (and getting faster every day). All this and she’s still no bigger than the length of a nail head   Week 7 Your baby is now about the size of a blueberry (and about 10,000 times bigger than he was at conception). Most of that growth is concentrated in the head as new brain cells are generated at the rate of 100 pe...
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