Connecting With Your Baby
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Babies’ Experience in the Womb
Studies have shown that babies’ experience in the womb has a big impact for the rest of their lifes.
Covering topics from connecting with baby, labor techniques to emotional readiness, these sessions provide hands-on practice and practical advice from certified professionals. Feel confident and informed as you step into parenthood.
In The Womb Development
1st Trimester (1-13 wks)
- Neurons begin to form (around 1st-2nd wk)
- Digestive system start develop (around 2-3th wk)
- Back bone starts developing (around 3rd wk)
- Spinal cord starts developing (around 3rd wk)
- Heart starts to develop (around 4th wk
- Limbs start to develop (around 7th wk)
- Central nervous system starts to develop (around 7th wk
- Palate starts to develop (around 8th wk)
- Rapid development of neurons (around 9th wk)
- Teeth start to form (around 9th wk)
- Neurons move to specialized region of the brain (11th wk)
- Ears and eyes start to develop (around 10th wk)
- External genitals start to develop (around 12th wk)
- Fingers and toes are distinct (around 12th wk)
- Placenta is complete (around 12th wk)
- Fetal circulation is complete (around 12th wk)
- Organ systems are complete (around 12th wk)
2nd Trimester (14-25 wks)
- Sex is differentiated (around 16th wk)
- Heartbeat is present (around 16th wk)
- Nasal septum and palate close (around 16th wk)
- Hair begins to grow (around 19th wk)
- Mother begins to feel movement (around 20th wk)
- Lanugo covers entire body (around 20th wk)
- Neurons connect with other neurons (around 22th wk)
- Electical and chemical bond between neurons (23th wk)
- Skin appears wrindkled (around 24th wk)
- Vernix appears (around 24th wk)
- Eyebrows and eyelibs appear (around 24th wk)
- Cerebral organization and myelination (around 25th wk)
3rd Trimester (26-38 wks)
- Bone mineralization (around 27th wk)
- Fat layers are forming (around 28th wk)
- Skin is red (around 28th wk)
- Pupillary membrane disappears from eyes (around 29th wk)
- Eyes open and close (around 29th wk)
- Lung development (around 29th wk)
- Organs are maturing during this period
- Chemical bonds are reorganized (around 32nd wk)
- Fingerprints are set (around 32nd wk)
- Vascular tree development (around 33rd wk)
- Neuralconnections are formed faster (around 34th wk)
- Vigorous fetal movement occurs (around 34th wk)
- Kidney development (around 35th wk)
- Baby can survive outside the womb
- Lanugo disappears (around 36th wk)
- Amniotic fluid decreases (around 37th wk)
- Lungs are finishing maturing (around 38th wk)
- Neuro branches keep growing faster (around 39th wk)
- Skin is smooth (around 40th wk)
- Eyes are uniformly state colored (around 40th wk)
- Bones of skull are ossified and nearly together at sutures
Trimester / Month / Week Gude in Pregnancy
| Trimester | Month | Weeks |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | 1 | 1 - 4 |
| 2 | 5 - 8 | |
| 3 | 9 - 15 | |
| 2nd | 4 | 14 - 17 |
| 5 | 18 - 21 | |
| 6 | 22 - 26 | |
| 3rd | 7 | 27 - 30 |
| 8 | 31 - 35 | |
| 9 | 36 - 40 |
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