Your Guide to Being 7 Weeks Pregnant: How your baby is growing Your baby starts a growth spurt, which sees a rapid expansion and development of all the vital organs, features and limbs. The brain divides into different sections. Two separate tubes grow in the throat, forming the esophagus (gullet) and trachea (windpipe). Buds appear…
Your Guide to Being 4 Weeks Pregnant: How your baby is growing The stem cells which make up the embryo start to form into specific cells to create your baby’s organs and tissues. Cells at the top begin to form your baby’s nervous system, brain and spinal cord (called the neural tube). Cells in the…
Your guide to the second week of pregnancy What’s happening Oestrogen also thins the mucus in your cervix (the entrance to your womb), to allow your partner’s sperm to swim through into your womb and up the fallopian tubes to meet your egg. Sperm is usually prevented from doing this by the thickness of the…
Your guide to the first week of pregnancy: What’s happening So the first two weeks of your baby’s ‘life’ are spent as an unripened egg inside one of your ovaries and a sperm inside your partner’s testicles. But there’s plenty going on, as your body prepares itself for the beginning of your next monthly cycle….
