PREGNANCY

TIMELINE

SANDRALILA IGLESIAS 11-C

 FIRST TRIMESTER

WEEK 1 AND 2:
GETTING READY WEEK 3 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 WEEK 6

Growth is now largely

Starts with the first day Sperm and egg Your baby’s nervous this week the trunk and neck
focused on your baby’s are beginning to grow and
of a woman's last unite in fallopian system and heart
head, which is the tail starts to
menstrual period. tube to form a are already straighten.Also taking shape
beginning to develop
During the end of the zygote, then travels beginning to develop are the kidneys, liver and
much more rapidly
second week, an egg is and blood vessels lungs. The little heart is
to uterus. than the rest of the beating 90 to 110 times a
released from the are forming
tiny body. minute
ovary.
FIRST TRIMESTER

WEEK 7 WEEK 8 WEEK 9 WEEK 10 WEEK 11

Your baby’s brain is Your baby is finally The major internal organs Your baby’s stomach is Your baby is kicking,
growing fast, generating continue to develop and stretching and clenching
starting to take on some already producing
about one hundred new very distinct human some new organs – the liver, its fists but you will be
digestive juices and the
spleen and gallbladder – are unaware of any of this for
nerve cells every minute. features, with eyes, kidneys are producing
forming.Your baby’s muscles quite some time. Bones
The arms and legs are which are shut, and the urine. The arms, which
are beginning to develop are beginning to become
emerging and joints start beginning of lips and a
and the arms and legs are now have elbows, can harder and the sex
to form. tongue in the mouth.
moving spontaneously. also flex. organs are developing.
 SECOND TRIMESTER

WEEK 13:
SECOND TRIMESTER
WEEK 12 STARTS WEEK 14 WEEK 15 WEEK 16

Placenta is now your baby’s Your baby has fully

Your baby is practising Tiny hairs begin to cover support system, producing functional joints in its limbs Your baby’s nervous system is
breathing using amniotic the body and the senses of hormones and supplying now working and the muscles
and the legs have now
essential nutrients and are responding to stimulation
fluid to prepare the taste and smell are further grown longer than the
oxygen.All your baby’s from the brain, so movement
lungs for air refined.Organs are arms.The intestines are
movements are less jerky and is being coordinated. Your
respiration.The kidneys forming in order to make continuing their journey
the fingers, wrists, legs, knees baby is somersaulting and
are excreting tiny the hormones necessary and toes are constantly being into the baby’s body and kicking, and you may feel a
amounts of urine for ongoing development bent and flexed as your baby taste buds are forming in slight fluttering sensation.
punches and kicks. the mouth.
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WEEK 17
The skeleton is continuing to
harden, turning from rubbery
cartilage to bone.Body fat is
accumulating around the skeleton
and will continue to accumulate
until the end of your
pregnancy.Your baby is starting to
hear sounds outside your body,
and some may even make it jump.
WEEK 20:
THE HALFWAY
WEEK 18 WEEK 19 POINT WEEK 21
The brain can now start The arms and legs are now Your baby is Your baby may now have a
to process the sounds in the correct proportions, definite pattern of activity,
swallowing a lot now,
that the ears are sending the kidneys continue which you are becoming
which is good for the
to it and the retinas in producing urine and fine familiar with.Facial
the eyes continue to hair is growing on the
digestive system.
features are becoming
become more sensitive scalp.Vernix is now Permanent second more recognisable as
to light. The genitals are covering the whole of your teeth are forming eyebrows and eyelashes
now formed and in place. baby’s body behind the milk teeth. are growing.
SECOND TRIMESTER

WEEK 22 WEEK 23 WEEK 24 WEEK 25 WEEK 26

Oxygen and nutrients You may now be able to The skin is becoming a Your baby's skin is smoothing Your baby’s pulse
see movements under the little less translucent as out and becoming pinker so it quickens as a reaction to
are being distributed
skin as your baby squirms looks more like a newborn.
around your baby’s pigment starts to sound now. Your baby's
around. The sense of The nipples are forming and
deposit.The lungs are now eyes are now beginning
body by the blood from movement is now quite well
the hair is continuing to
forming the branches of grow.Your baby has become to open, the iris still
the umbilical cord, developed and you may find
the respiratory system as quite dextrous and can grasp doesn’t have much
flowing at a speed of that your baby will react if its feet and make a fist. pigmentation
four miles an hour. you dance to music. well as surfactant cells.

WEEK 27:
2ND TRIMESTER
ENDS
You will begin to notice from
its movements that your
baby is beginning to sleep
and wake at more regular
intervals.The brain tissue
continues to develop and
your baby is becoming very
active mentally.
THIRD TRIMESTER
WEEK 28:
3RD TRIMESTER
BEGINS WEEK 29 WEEK 30 WEEK 31
The size of your baby’s The formation of white Your baby's body is entering
Your baby's eyes are blinking
and they can sense light filtering head is now in fat cells under the skin is another growth spurt as much
in from the womb.The major proportion with the causing your baby to needed fat accumulates under
organ systems such as the have surges of energy the skin. The constant bouts of
rest of the body.Your activity are an excellent sign of
brain, lungs and liver are having
baby is becoming more and you may find that it
the finishing touches applied to a healthy baby, but these
them and body fat is up to three sensitive to light, ends up lying in a strange somersaults and kicks may be
percent. position. keeping you awake at night.
sound, taste and smell.
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WEEK 32 WEEK 33 WEEK 34 WEEK 35 WEEK 36

The nervous and immune The downy hair that has

Your baby is practising Your baby has The brain is working
all the skills needed to systems are still finishing been covering your
probably moved enthusiastically forming
survive outside the off their development but baby’s skin until now is
all of the millions of
womb, from swallowing into the birth everything else is fully being shed and the
complex connections formed from the hair on
and breathing to position with the waxy vernix, which has
needed for learning in the head to the tiny protected the skin, is
sucking and kicking. head downwards the outside world. toenails. also disappearing.
 THIRD TRIMESTER
WEEK 40:
PREGNANCY 
DUE DATE
WEEK 37 WEEK 38 WEEK 39 ARRIVES CHILDBIRTH

Antibodies continue to
transfer through the
placenta to improve your
baby’s immune system and
after the birth your breast
milk will continue to supply
these antibodies.
At 40 weeks pregnant
The hands have The lungs are maturing
and surfactant, a naturally it's hard to say for
fully formed nails occurring substance that sure how big your
that reach the end reduces the surface baby will be. Your
tension of fluid in the
of the fingers and baby is fully formed
lungs, is increasing. and beautiful.
the grasp is strong.
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