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Pregnancy & Baby Index: Pregnancy - Fetal Development
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Week 16 - What your baby looks like now - Your baby is about 4 to 4.75 inches long and weighs about 3 to 4 ounces.
Week 28 - What your baby looks like now - Your baby is about 10 inches long and tips the scales at 2.5 pounds.
A look inside your baby's world! - View the different stages of your baby's growth, week by week. Includes pictures to help give you an idea of the incredible ways your little one is growing!
Alcohol warning for pregnant women - A variety of birth defects caused by prenatal alcohol exposure comprise FASD. They may include mild and subtle changes, such as a slight learning disability or physical abnormality, through full-blown fetal alcohol syndrome (FAS), which can include severe learning disabilities, growth deficiencies, abnormal facial features, and central nervous system disorders.
Any exposure to tobacco smoke during pregnancy is risky - A re-examination of data from earlier studies suggests that exposure to second-hand smoke during pregnancy can be just as detrimental to a developing fetus as primary exposure through maternal smoking, according to a recent paper from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health.
Baby talk - Some researchers believe that prenatal communication (which, by the way, doesn't have to be limited to words), stimulates babies' brains, triggering nerve cell development, helping them process information more efficiently.
Baby's genes affect mom's cholesterol levels - A group of Belgian researchers has determined that a pregnant woman's ability to metabolize fats is determined not only by her genes but by her baby's genes as well.
Green pregnancy: Protect your baby from outside toxins - Protecting your baby is a natural instinct for any expectant mother. But, a newer, more natural step could be protecting your baby from toxins in the environment.
How early can you hear your baby's heartbeat? - When will you first be able to hear your baby's beating heart? Obstetrical Nurse Wanda Steele tells you what to expect, and when.
Only one-third of women take vitamins to help prevent serious birth defects - Only one-third of childbearing age women are taking a multivitamin containing the B vitamin folic acid daily to prevent serious birth defects of the brain and spine in their future babies, according to a decade of March of Dimes surveys.
Ozone levels may raise risk of underweight births - Babies born to women exposed to high ozone levels during pregnancy are at heightened risk for being significantly underweight, according to researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California.
Paxil and the risk of birth defects - Early results of new studies for Paxil (paroxetine) suggest that the drug increases the risk of birth defects, particularly heart defects, when women take it during the first three months of pregnancy. Paxil is approved to treat depression and several other psychiatric disorders.
Poor pregnancy outcomes linked to increased uric acid - Pregnant women with hypertension who also have elevated blood uric acid levels may face an increased risk of complications that could be fatal for mother and baby, University of Pittsburgh researchers have found.
Pre-pregnancy weight is increasing, bringing greater risk - A growing number of women are overweight or obese when they become pregnant, a condition that is risky to both mother and baby, a new study conducted by researchers at the University at Buffalo has shown.
Prenatal vitamins may reduce risk of brain tumors in children - Women who take multivitamins early in pregnancy may reduce the risk that their child will develop some types of brain tumors.
Small for dates at 8 weeks of pregnancy - At 8 weeks of pregnancy, what does it mean to be small for dates? Obstetrical Nurse Wanda F Steele has some information to help address this concern.
Smoking while pregnant causes finger, toe deformities - In the largest study of its kind, plastic surgeons found smoking during pregnancy significantly elevates the risk of having a child with excess, webbed or missing fingers and toes, according to the January issue of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, the official medical journal of the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS).
Ultrasounds show mothers' drinking shrinks fetal brain - Routine ultrasounds show that heavy drinkers who continue to imbibe after learning they are pregnant may carry fetuses with reduced skull and brain growth compared to those of abstainers or quitters, says a new study.
Viral infection at birth linked to cerebral palsy - According to a study published by the BMJ, exposure to certain viral infections shortly before and after birth (the prenatal period) is associated with cerebral palsy.
Week 10 - What your baby looks like now - Your baby is now about 1-1/5 inches long (about 4 centimeters) -- and his head takes up about half of that size!
Week 12 - What your baby looks like now - Your baby is about 2-1/2 inches from head to rump, and weighs just about 1-1/2 ounces. His heartbeat should now be detectable with an electronic doppler (or heart monitor).
Week 20 - What your baby looks like now - Weighing in at a hefty 10 ounces, your baby is now about 6-1/4 inches long from head to rump. He's big enough now that you may feel him moving!
Week 24 - What your baby looks like now - His lungs are just starting to develop to the point that some babies -- with major intensive care -- may survive, albeit with difficulty and some chance of disability.
Week 32 - What your baby looks like now - Just about an inch short of being a foot long, your little one weighs more than 3 pounds already.
Week 36 - What your baby looks like now - Your baby weighs somewhere between 4 and 6 pounds, and is growing rapidly (especially in the fat department).
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