At 13 weeks pregnant, you are entering your last week of your first trimester – congratulations! You are one third of the way toward meeting your new baby and becoming a mother. This is usually a transitional time for many women as they become less nauseous, but to begin to Read more…
How big is my baby? At 12 weeks pregnant, your baby is about 2 1/2 inches long and weighs about 1/2 an ounce. On the inside, your baby’s heart is getting stronger every day and if you didn’t hear it at you pre-natal appointment around 10 weeks, you are more Read more…
How big is my baby? At 11 weeks pregnant, your baby is between 1 1/2 inches to 2 inches long. If you think of your baby in terms of fruit, your baby is about the size of a strawberry. Additionally, this week your baby officially graduates from existence as an Read more…
How big is my baby? At 10 weeks pregnant, this is the last week that your baby will be considered an embryo. As your baby’s legs continue to grow, they now start to curl underneath his or her body. With that said, your baby’s length from the top of it’s Read more…
How big is my baby? At 9 weeks pregnant, you baby is still quite tiny, only about an inch long. While that tail we talked about during week 7 is completely gone now, other features are starting to become visible. Those tiny little arms and legs now have little tiny Read more…
How big is my baby? At 8 weeks pregnant, while your baby is continuing to grow, that tail we talked about last week is starting to shrink. At about 3/4 of an inch, the most noticeable part of your baby is it’s head. For a large part of your early Read more…
My baby has a what? Once you are 7 weeks pregnant, among other features, your baby has a short tail! Don’t worry, he or she won’t be born with it – it’s just a normal stage in spinal cord development. As early as seven weeks, you baby is starting to Read more…
How big is my baby? Compared to last week, at 6 weeks pregnant your baby is about four times the size, about 1/4 of an inch or 6 millimeters. While this is still quite small, this is a relatively huge gain in only seven days. At this point, there are Read more…
How big is my baby? Your baby is constantly growing from the start of your pregnancy to the very end. At 5 weeks pregnant, your baby is about the size of a sesame seed – about 1/16th of an inch or 1.5 millimeters. Within that tiny little body, your baby’s Read more…
I think I just missed my period! At 4 weeks pregnant, you’ve probably just missed your first period, although if you are trying to get pregnant, you’re probably not “missing” it as much as you are celebrating. At this point, you can take your first home pregnancy test to see Read more…