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Your body begins to prepare for pregnancy, common side effects are: cramps, fatigue, and being or feeling bloated.
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Ovulation starts, which allows your egg to fertilize. It begins to form the baby human.
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Implantation process occurs, your body stops releasing eggs, and your fertilized egg settles.
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The ball of cells becomes an embryo, you could get a positive result on a pregnancy test.
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Baby is able to swallow, digestive system is producing a dark, sticky, goo that will pass in the first poop.
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Circulatory system begins to form. Your baby is growing fast and it resembles a tadpole.
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Baby is the size of a pomegranate seed. The nose, mouth, ears, brain, and intestines begin to develop.
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Your baby doubles in size from the past week. It has a tail that will soon disappear.
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Nerve cells branch out and form primitive neural pathways. Baby starts moving, but you won’t feel it.
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Baby has tiny earlobes. Embryonic tail has disappeared. They basic physiology is in place.
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Baby has completes the most critical position of development. It’s limbs can bend, however baby still has translucent skin.
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Baby is almost fully formed, but still tiny. Since the diaphragm is developing baby is experiencing hiccuping. Mom doesn’t feel it nor the stretching or kicking that the baby begins to do.
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Fingers will soon be able to open and close. Baby’s reflexes begin to kick in.
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Last week of the first trimester. Baby has tiny fingers with formed fingerprints. It’s veins and organs are now visible.
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Starts using facial muscles; brain impulses begin to fire. Kidneys are now functioning.
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Baby’s eyelids are closed shut but is able to sense it because of it’s sensitivity.
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Legs are more developed. The scalp pattern is formed but the hair is not yet visible.
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Baby’s skeleton is hardening to bone, able to move joints, the umbilical cord is growing strong.
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Baby flexes arms and legs, mom can feel movements internally.
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Baby’s sense begin to develop smell, vision, touch, taste, and hearing. Baby may be able to hear mom’s voice.
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Baby’s kicks change from flutters to actual kicks and jabs against the wall of your womb.
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Baby’s lips and brows are more distinct. The whole baby looks like a tiny newborn.
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Baby’s ear are functioning and may be able to recognize sounds once they are out of the womb.
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Baby’s skin is thin and translucent. Baby seems long and lean but will soon become chubbier.
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Baby’s wrinkled skin is filled up with the baby’s fat. Hair is coming out.
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Baby is inhaling and exhaling amniotic fluid which helps develop it’s lungs.
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Last week of the second trimester, it sleeps and wakes on a regular schedule. Brain is active.
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Baby’s eyesight is developing, it’s able to blink and sense light. Lashes are growing.
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Baby’s muscles and lungs are preparing to begin to function for when they are born.
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Baby is surrounded by a pint and a half of amniotic fluid. Soon there will be less of it as the baby grows.
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Baby can turn it’s head from side to side. A protective layer of fat is forming under the skin.
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Mom is gaining around a pound each week. Part of that weight gain is for the baby.
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Baby's skull bones aren't fused yet. It helps when they go through the birth canal because they shift.
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Baby's lungs and central nervous system are maturing.
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Baby's liver is beginning to work, kidneys are fully developed, and baby is feeling snug in the womb.
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Baby starts to gain an ounce a day.
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Due date is very close, baby may seem like a new born already, but is not developed enough or ready enough to be born.
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Baby's eye color are not fully pigmented, so although they make look blue or green when she or he is born they will more likely change as they grow.
