During your pregnancy you'll often hear reference being made to pregnancy trimesters. Each trimester of pregnancy is linked with distinct features and changes experienced in both you and your growing baby.
This section will outline the different stages of pregnancy, pregnancy trimesters, what to expect in each trimester and the changes both you and your baby will perceive while your pregnancy.
First Pregnancy
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The Stages Outlined
A general or 'term' pregnancy typically lasts for 280 days, or 40 weeks (which is approximately nine calendar months), if calculated from the first day of your last menstrual period (Lmp). It can be divided into three main stages ordinarily known as trimesters. Each trimester lasts for approximately three months: the first and second trimesters comprise 13 weeks each and the third trimester lasts for 14 weeks. Trimesters represent increase of your baby rather than calendar months.
By convention, your pregnancy is referred to in terms of completed weeks of pregnancy (weeks from the first day of your last period), rather than weeks from conception, since the exact date of view is often not known. In women with quarterly four-weekly menstrual cycles, view commonly occurs around two weeks after your Lmp.
Your baby is referred to as an embryo for the first eight weeks of pregnancy (in fact for six weeks following conception). After this time your baby is called a fetus.
In a typical pregnancy, an embryo will grow from a minute size, approximately equivalent to a pinhead, to an midpoint length of 50 cm and a weight of about 3.5 kg. At the same time, your body will change to accommodate and hold your developing baby. The midpoint weight increase for a pregnant woman is 10-12.5 kg (22-28 lb), with approximately 70% of this put on in the last 20 weeks. However, if there are no serious underlying problems, even a weight gain of as much as 20 kg can be carefully general (remember, the more weight that you gain while pregnancy, the more difficult it will be to lose it after you have given birth!).
Each trimester of pregnancy is linked with distinct features in you and your growing baby. A pregnant woman will undergo a series of changes that allow her to hold her pregnancy, nourish her developing baby and prepare her for breast-feeding. These changes are influenced by increased levels of varied hormones, principally oestrogen, progesterone, human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCg) and human placental lactogen (hPl).
Remember that every woman and pregnancy is unique, and different babies construct at their own pace, so don't worry if you find that distinct things you perceive or feel vary from those of a old pregnancy, an additional one pregnant woman or what you read.
Attending quarterly antenatal check-ups, and/or informing your healthcare expert if you feel that something isn't quite right, will help to reassure you as well as allowing any possible problems to be identified and addressed at an early stage.
gravidity Trimesters
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