Various Pregnancy Stages

Executive summary about Pregnancy Stages by Apurvashree Jain

Pregnancy is a joyous but stressful journey of pregnancy stages in an average woman’s life. Pregnancy is an individual experience and each woman reacts differently. Staying fit and healthy should be your goal throughout the rapidly changing stages of pregnancy during your journey to motherhood.

Each stage of pregnancy has an individual but predictable character with its unique effects on both the mother and the baby’s development. The three distinct pregnancy stages or trimesters are the distinct stages of baby’s growth in the womb.

The first trimester is the start of pregnancy. Hormonal changes during the first three months of pregnancy will increase fatigue, nausea, bowel movements, excessive urination and heightened emotional sensitivity. Guard against any infections and sickness to protect your baby’s health.
The second pregnancy stage is called the second trimester.

Your body starts showing the ‘baby bump’ and you can feel the baby’s movement. Keep a meticulous routine of personal hygiene, and take adequate calcium for the growth of baby’s skeletal system.

The third pregnancy stage is the last trimester, as baby completes its growth. Soon your baby will be born. This last stage of pregnancy culminates in labor. The three stages of labor are – the dilation of the cervix, the delivery of the baby and the delivery of the placenta. Do not be embarrassed by bowel motion, as it is common during this pregnancy stage of labor.

Observing Pregnancy Stages Through Ultrasound
Executive summary about Pregnancy Stages by Abhishek Agarwal

The ultrasound technology has evolved from the sonar used by the navies of the world in the Second World War. It was only in the 1950s the medical fraternity acknowledged the usefulness of the sonar in capturing ultrasound images of pregnancy stages.

A series of extremely high frequency of sound waves make Ultrasound. As high frequency sounds traverse her skin, and rebound off anything they contact within the abdomen, an image that looks like a blurry black and white picture is generated.

These images are today the recognizable ultrasound photos of the pregnancy stages. By that time, scientists had ascertained that the Doppler Effect could turn out pictures that are more precise provided the sound waves of high frequency were in constant movement.

Purely by accident, a discovery was made that the finest ultrasound images of the pregnancy stages were generated when the technique was applied on women whose bladders were full. Ultrasound pictures of the pregnancy stages are far more popular during middle and last trimesters of pregnancy. The fetus has grown quite large by then to be discovered without difficulty.

While the fetus develops, its organs, head, legs, arms, fingers, and toes become more identifiable, and making out the fetus or fetuses gender becomes quite simple.
Practicing physicians use ultrasound pictures during pregnancy stages to perceive likely problems that the fetus may face.

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Various Pregnancy Stages

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