Months 1-2
Your Baby's Progess - The First Eight Weeks. You’re already aware of what’s happening, but it’s amazing to think about the extraordinary events now taking place within your body. These changes begin at conception.
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Prenatal Care – A Must! Prenatal care and regular visits to your physician are crucial to your health, as well as to your baby’s. Shortly after you become pregnant, you need to schedule your first prenatal exam.
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On the Go! As long as you’re feeling fine with no complications, you shouldn’t have any problems traveling during your pregnancy. If you’re planning a trip in your car, follow these handy travel tips.
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Your Baby's Life Support. Your baby’s umbilical cord serves as his lifeline to the placenta. The cord normally is made up of two arteries and one vein. Oxygenated blood is delivered to your baby through the cord, and arteries carry the de-oxygenated blood from your baby to the placenta.
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A Time for Names. If you and your partner haven’t yet done so, now is a good time to begin thinking of names for your baby. You both should put a lot of time and thought into choosing the name your child will carry with him the rest of his life. Here are a few hints on choosing baby names.
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Your Baby's Progress. Week 28: Your little one is continuing to add body fat and is beginning to lose some of the lanugo (fine body hair). His skin is no longer transparent but is still fragile and wrinkled.
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Nearing Delivery. By 36 weeks your baby weighs an average of 5 ½ to 6 pounds and measures about 19 inches in length. In the last few weeks, her body has been filling out and is now plumper.
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Time to Go. As their due dates approach, many first time mothers fear they won’t recognize true labor or know when to go to the hospital. Some women mistake Braxton-Hicks, or false labor, contractions for “the real thing” and go to the hospital before it’s really time.
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