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Baby gives the thumbs up in ultrasound scan
By Laura Nelson on 04/02/2011 12:55:49
Pregnant mum-to-be gets a friendly gesture from her unborn baby
Mum-to-be Donna Sayer was delighted with her latest pregnancy ultrasound scan – which showed her unborn baby giving her the thumbs up.Worried Donna had been called in for another ultrasound scan two weeks after her 20-week scan. Luckily all was well
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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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Watch your unborn baby grow - 2nd Trimester
By Tessa Watkins on 04/05/2010 16:06:59
By this point, your baby will have all of his essential parts and will start to move around in the womb - so watch out for those kicks!
The Second TrimesterWelcome to the start of your second trimester! This is the time of greatest activity for your baby – he can bend, stretch, twist, kick, leap, flex and make very complex movements with his hands.* Remember, all pregnancies are different and foetal growth rates ...
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Fetal development: Week 6
By ThinkBaby on 30/05/2005 11:08:26
The limb buds appear
By the end of this week your baby will be about half a centimetre long and shaped like a tadpole with a protrusion like a tail at the end of the spine.If you had an ultrasound at five weeks it would probably look something like this one on the right
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Fetal Kick Charts Value Questioned
By Laura Lee Davies on 19/10/2009 00:56:55
Although all pregnant women should be able to feel their babies move beyond 20 weeks, a new study questions the reliability of Fetal Kick Charts
and wellbeing of the unborn baby.Using fetal kick chartsUnless there is a specific medical concern, most pregnant women will only get an ultrasound scan to set a fairly certain due date and to check, at around 20 weeks, that fetal growth is progressing well
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Fetal development: Week 28
By ThinkBaby on 27/05/2005 11:50:32
Congratulations, you're into the third trimester!
by reading up on the three stages of labour.Take a sneaky peak at what's happening next week in fetal development week 29. Read more onFast forward to week 40 and find out what's happeningBaby gives the thumbs up in ultrasound scanAmazing video of baby
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Fetal development: Week 19
By ThinkBaby on 27/05/2005 15:39:55
Boy or girl?
Image of 18-week fetus courtesy of BabybondWant to see a bigger pic?Your baby is now over 15 centimetres crown to rump and weighs 225-250 grammes, around half a pound. The nerves and spinal cord are now being coated with a fatty matter called myelin
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Fetal development: Week 10
By ThinkBaby on 30/05/2005 10:35:07
No longer a tadpole
disappears completely. The baby’s limbs are now well-formed, the arms have grown longer and the tiny fingers and toes have the ridges that will become nails.If you had an ultrasound scan at nine weeks, so the beginning of your tenth week, it would probably
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Fetal development: Week 7
By ThinkBaby on 30/05/2005 11:04:40
Head and body become distinct
of the forming eyes can be distinguished along with the facial openings for the mouth, nose and ears.If you had an ultrasound at the start of this week it might looks something like the one on the right. Here the embryo is 4.7mm long and is safely nestled
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Fetal Development: At a Glance
By ThinkBaby on 15/06/2009 01:59:21
What's happening when inside that growing bump!
development newsletters by email for every week of you pregnancy…Weeks 0-4: Approx 0.2mm longIt’s very early days, so you’ve probably got no idea that you’re pregnant, but there’s already plenty going on in there. Fertilisation occurs within a few days
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