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Pregnancy month-by-month: Third Trimester
By Maria Muennich on 29/03/2009 01:58:16
What you can expect and what you need to prepare for over these months
going to have to be patient for a few weeks longer. Body changesFor all women in the last month of pregnancy, the body prepares for labour with softening ligaments, ready to allow your pelvis and sacro-iliac to expand. As your baby's head engages you
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Pregnancy month-by-month: 1st Trimester
By Maria Muennich on 28/03/2009 01:06:19
What to expect and what to plan for in the first trimester
The First Month | Month Two | Month Three The First MonthWomen often spend the first few weeks of their pregnancy completely unaware that they they are pregnant. Those not using contraception and actively trying to conceive may be more sensitive
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Pregnancy month-by-month: 2nd Trimester
By Maria Muennich on 28/03/2009 01:24:15
What you can expect and what you need to prepare for over these months
Month Four | Month Five | Month six The Fourth MonthWelcome to your second trimester! This is usually the part of pregnancy that women enjoy most as the 12-week scan - and the most critical phase of fetal development - is safely behind them
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30 weeks pregnant. You're three quarters of the way there
By Maria Muennich on 05/08/2008 13:20:13
The due date is looming on the horizon, so it's time to start getting yourself ready
Congratulations! You're 30 weeks pregnant. 3/4 of the way through your pregnancy and from here on in you may feel like you're counting down the weeks to go until your due date. But if your pregnancy has skipped along reasonably quickly until
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35 weeks pregnant - five weeks till you're a mum
By Maria Muennich on 09/09/2008 11:45:54
You're 35 weeks in and you've got only 35 days to go until you reach your due date
Five weeks to go and you've almost reached your last month of pregnancy, according to your due date at least. By 35 weeks pregnant you may well already have heard from mums from your ante-natal or due month club who have already given birth
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38 weeks pregnant and counting
By Maria Muennich on 30/05/2011 01:33:28
Your due date is 14 days away and you're probably ready for it all to be over. But be prepared to wait a little yet
At 38 weeks pregnant most women are feeling ready for their baby to be born, and you might even be feeling a little impatient to have it all over with and finally meet your baby. At around this point in the pregnancy many women start to think about
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32 weeks pregnant - getting there!
By Maria Muennich on 19/08/2008 14:35:40
56 days to go until the due date and you may be ready to take things a little easier
With eight weeks to go the notion of giving birth is probably beginning to seem a little more real to you, and you may be looking forward to the time when your maternity leave starts - if it hasn't already. If you were planning to work right up to
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37 weeks pregnant - just three weeks to go
By Maria Muennich on 23/09/2008 00:47:58
Still three weeks off your due date but you've reached term - you're baby wouldn't be considered a premmie if he arrived today
Congratulations! You're 37 weeks pregnant. You've made it to term and if your baby was born now he would be considered fully mature and ready for birth; his lungs would be ready to breathe air without assistance and so nothing would be done to slow
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34 weeks pregnant and counting
By Maria Muennich on 02/09/2008 11:30:18
42 days until your due date - here's what you may be experiencing and what to get ready this week
Just six weeks to go before you reach your due date. Now you're 34 weeks pregnant you should be aware that studies have shown that daily perineal massage is most effective in helping pre-stretch and prepare your perineal tissues for birth
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36 weeks pregnant and counting
By Maria Muennich on 17/09/2008 06:05:57
28 days until you're due and your weekly checks now include seeing what's happening to your cervix
Welcome to your last month of pregnancy! You're 36 weeks pregnant.Sometime in these last few weeks of pregnancy many mums-to-be feel their baby drop down into the pelvis, shifting weight and pressure downwards to your lower half, this is called
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