Boston: Baby Bundle"s Arrival

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One of the most important pieces of information that you will be given within the first few weeks of learning that you are pregnant is the due date of your child. However, though the doctor will try and give as accurate a time as possible it is not always one hundred percent true, as the precise date of conception cannot always be determined and different situations can cause an early or even late arrival. There are two formulas that you can use to try and gather a better estimate of when you child will enter the world:

1. Write down the date of the first day of your last normal menstrual period. Add to this seven. To that date add nine months. That’s your estimated due date.

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2. Write down the date of the first day of your last menstrual period. Add 40 weeks to this date – this potentially could be the date your baby is due.

Conceiving:

In the first two weeks of the stages of pregnancy you are not actually pregnant, but your body is preparing for the conception of a child. It is in the third week when an egg is released into your fallopian tube and meets up with your partner’s sperm that penetration occurs and your egg is fertilized. Immediately the egg begins diving into identical cells as it travels down the fallopian tube and into the uterus.

By week four the fertilized egg has locked itself onto your uterus and divided in half: one half sticks to the uterus wall and is called the placenta while the other half becomes the baby. By the end of the week you will have missed your period, giving you an initial sign that you may have been successful.

It is at week five that a pregnancy test can confirm that you are carrying a child. Your baby is about the size of an apple seed now and is called an embryo, with its own beating heart. The placenta (the life support system that nourishes your child and takes away all of the waste) and the umbilical cord are in full working order. Week six is when your body starts to indicate that your child is growing inside of you as you will feel nausea, fatigue, the constant need for the toilet; sore and swollen breasts and aching. Your child is now developing at a rapid rate with a head, tail and arm buds becoming easily recognizable and the earliest form of the liver, pancreas, lungs, thyroid gland and heart appearing.

Source by Carmine Manfre

Baby Bundle"s Arrival