Pregnancy

• Pregnancy at 27 Weeks: Weekly Calendar

  At 27 weeks (the end of the second trimester) babies look like how they’ll appear at birth, just smaller and thinner.

• Pregnancy at 6 Weeks: Weekly Calendar

  This week, your baby’s heart begins to beat! The digestive and respiratory systems are forming, as are small buds that will grow into arms and legs.

• Pregnancy at 8 Weeks: Weekly Calendar

  Around week 8 of pregnancy, symptoms such as a missed period, nausea, extreme fatigue, or tight clothes may make your pregnancy feel more real.

• Pregnancy Calendar: Week 14

  Some fine hairs, called lanugo, have developed on your baby’s face. This soft colorless hair protects the skin and will eventually cover most of your baby’s body until it is shed just before delivery.

• Pregnancy Calendar: Week 15

  Muscle development continues, and your baby is probably making lots of movements with his or her head, mouth, arms, wrists, hands, legs, and feet.

• Pregnancy Calendar: Week 16

  Your baby can hold his or her head erect, and facial muscles now allow for a variety of expressions, such as squinting and frowning.

• Pregnancy Calendar: Week 17

  Your baby is still very tiny at about 5.1 inches from crown to rump this week.

• Pregnancy Calendar: Week 18

  Your baby’s bones had been developing but were still soft. This week, they begin to harden, or ossify.

• Pregnancy Calendar: Week 19

  A waxy substance called vernix caseosa is covering your baby to help protect the delicate skin from becoming chapped or scratched.

• Pregnancy Calendar: Week 2

  Week 2 is the midpoint of a typical menstrual cycle, when ovulation occurs and conditions are most favorable for fertilization of an egg by sperm.