Pregnancy Week 5

Mother:-

1. Some women are plagued with morning sickness during their entire pregnancies, though most morning sickness gets better after the first trimester.
2. Morning sickness is often worse on an empty stomach.
3. ginger tea or lemon water helps relieve nausea.
4. Another remedy is supplementation with extra B-6.
5. The most common early pregnancy symptom at five weeks pregnant is a sense of fatigue.
6. One great way to take advantage of a natural pick me up is to exercise.
7. Many women decide to keep their pregnancies private until after the 12th week. This is because the chance of miscarriage is greatest during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
8. The central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), muscle and bone formation are beginning to take shape in your baby.
9. You may start noticing some early symptoms of pregnancy during this week.
10. Morning sickness, nausea and vomiting, frequent urination, breast changes; tenderness, tingling in the breasts or nipples are all early signs.
11. Fatigue or tiring easily is also common at this time.
12. the earliest blood elements and vessels have formed in your baby and developing placenta.

Baby:-

1. During 5 weeks pregnant, your baby is still just over a millimeter long.
2. Vital organs continue to develop through this week.
3. the central nervous system, muscles, bones and even the heart will begin to form.
4. the heart will begin to divide into separate chambers and start pumping blood.
5. The heart is formed from the middle layer of cells, called the mesoderm.
6. Other organs that will develop from this layer include the muscles, cartilage, and bone.
7. the primitive placenta and umbilical cord are also developing.
8. The neural tube will start developing from a top layer of cells called the ectoderm.
9. The baby's skin, hair, nails and sweat glands will also develop out of this layer.
10. A third layer of cells, called the endoderm, is also developing this week.
11. The lungs, intestines, thyroid and pancreas also develop from this layer.

Pregnancy Week 4

In The 4th week of Pregnancy, The mother have not gained weight at this point, since your baby is so tiny. The hormones in the mother are undergoing major changes, so mood swings are completely normal during this time and throughout your pregnancy. A pregnancy of 4 weeks is often noted as the beginning of the embryonic period. During your pregnancy at 4 weeks, your baby's organs will start developing. The early weeks of pregnancy are considered a critical time of development. Any exposure to harmful substances during pregnancy week 4 or later in the first trimester is most likely to cause damage to or harm your developing fetus.

Mother:

1. Your body is figuring out
2. A urine pregnancy test would probably be positive by now.
3. You are probably beginning to feel tired, urinate more frequently, experience mood swings, and possibly have tender or swollen breasts.
4. Be sure to avoid environmental hazards.
5. By the end of 4 weeks pregnant you would normally expect your period to arrive. If it does not there is a good chance you might be pregnant.
6. During the early weeks of pregnancy before the placenta is fully formed, an area of your ovary forms what is called the corpus luteum. This generally occurs at the site where your egg is released from the follicle. The corpus luteum is believed to produce progesterone during the early weeks of pregnancy.
7. call your healthcare provider to set up your first prenatal visit.
8. stress is a big hindrance to pregnancy.

Baby:-

1. Your baby at 4 weeks pregnant is still incredibly miniscule, about .014 to .04 inches long.
2. Your baby will be implanting furiously during pregnancy week 4 into the uterine lining and the amniotic cavity.
3. The amniotic cavity will be filled with amniotic fluid.
4. The early version of the placenta is forming .
5. Different germ layers are developing and the vascular networks that contain maternal blood are being established.

Pregnancy Week 3

Mother:

1. You have ovulated and have now been exposed to sperm!
2. When the egg implants some women have a tiny bit of spotting called implantation bleeding, where the egg burrows into the uterine lining, shedding a bit.
3. Your body also releases an immunosuppressant protein called Early Pregnancy Factor (EPF) to prevent your body from seeing the baby as an invader.
4. Fertilization occurs about the beginning of week 3 of pregnancy.
5. The fertilized egg of a divides until a solid ball of cells is formed.
6. Then, it travels down the fallopian tube into the uterus, during a seven to ten day trip, where it eventually implants into the uterine lining and continues to grow and develop.
7. You might experience some spotting or light bleeding at the time of implantation.

Baby:-

Cell division begins immediately and continues throughout this journey. Once in the uterus, it is generally about 72 hours before implantation occurs. Once it has implanted your baby is called a blastocyst and is about 0.1-0.2 mm in diameter. At 3 weeks pregnant, your baby is too small to detect with the naked eye, even though he is growing remarkable fast. By about this week, your baby consists of a ball of cells that can fit into the head of a needle.

Pregnancy Week 1 & 2

Weeks one and two are an extremely exciting and mystifying time for most women.

Mother:-

1. First get your due date from pregnancy calculator and start your countdown at that week pregnant.
2. Try to remember the day the period started. It makes a clear starting point for determining your baby's due date.
3. You should start taking prenatal vitamins or vitamin supplements.
4. Stop smoking, drinking alcohol and using over-the-counter meds now.
5. your menstrual period should have let up and your uterine lining begins to build up once again and the uterine lining thickens to soon receive the egg.
6. Several of your eggs are ripening and one ovary or the other is preparing to release a single egg that is ready for fertilization.
7. Your last period has just started and you may be considering a pregnancy.
8. Preconceptional health planning is a good idea.
9. Discontinuing any form of chemical birth control.

Baby:-
As the uterus sheds its lining, the hormones are preparing another egg for release is called ovulation.

Early Signs and Symptoms of Pregnancy:-

There are some signs and symptoms that most women experience during the first weeks of pregnancy. The most common symptoms that women experience during ovulation include some mild cramping, which may occur on one or both sides of the body.
It is not uncommon to feel some ovarian cramping during ovulation.

If you are trying to conceive, this can be an effective and natural way to determine your most fertile days. During the first two weeks of your menstrual cycle, your body temperature should be lower than normal, typically between 97.0 and 97.5 degrees Fahrenheit. During ovulation however, your body temperature increases, a change caused by increasing levels of progesterone. A rise of .4 to .6 degrees is common among ovulating women.

Forty weeks and three Trimesters of Pregnancy

Pregnancy is an exciting time for any first time parent or seasoned mom. Here you will find helpful and informative information for each of the approximately forty weeks of pregnancy, and even information to assist you during the postpartum period.
Visit our pregnancy week by week section to see more common signs,

There are three Trimesters of Pregnancy inwhich forty weeks are divided,

First Trimester (Weeks 1-12) of Pregnancy,
Pregnancy Week 1 & 2
Pregnancy Week 3
Pregnancy Week 4
Pregnancy Week 5
Pregnancy Week 6
Pregnancy Week 7
Pregnancy Week 8
Pregnancy Week 9
Pregnancy Week 10
Pregnancy Week 11
Pregnancy Week 12
Second Trimester (Weeks 13-28) of Pregnancy,
Pregnancy Week 13
Pregnancy Week 14
Pregnancy Week 15
Pregnancy Week 16
Pregnancy Week 17
Pregnancy Week 18
Pregnancy Week 19
Pregnancy Week 20
Pregnancy Week 21
Pregnancy Week 22
Pregnancy Week 23
Pregnancy Week 24
Pregnancy Week 25
Pregnancy Week 26
Pregnancy Week 27
Pregnancy Week 28
Third Trimester (Weeks 29-40) of Pregnancy,
Pregnancy Week 29
Pregnancy Week 30
Pregnancy Week 31
Pregnancy Week 32
Pregnancy Week 33
Pregnancy Week 34
Pregnancy Week 35
Pregnancy Week 36
Pregnancy Week 37
Pregnancy Week 38
Pregnancy Week 39
Pregnancy Week 40

What are lymph Nodes? What is function of lymph nodes?

There several definations available on Internet Some of them are listed below.
Definitions of Lymph Nodes:
1. small bean-shaped structures scattered along the vessels of the lymphatic system. The lymph nodes filter out or remove waste, bacteria, and cancer cells that may travel through the lymphatic system.

2. Small pearl-like glands that are connected to the lymph system and filter out stray bacteria or cancer cells. They also produce lymphocytes which are one of the types of white blood cells in the body. When bacteria or cancer cells reach these nodes they can become enlarged.

3. Normal, round, raisin to grape-sized collections of lymphocytes (white blood cells) found throughout the body. Lymph nodes are connected to each other by lymphatic vessels. They normally help fight infection, but also are one of the first sites to which cancers spread. In general, the spread of cancer to lymph nodes portends a worse prognosis for the patient. There are exceptions to this.
4. part of the lymphatic system; a thin, clear fluid that circulates through the lymphatic vessels and carries blood cells that fight infection and disease.


There are several places in the body where lymph nodes are strategically located for immunological purposes. These include areas such as the neck, groin, axillae, mediastinum, and abdominal cavities because antigens, or foreign pathogens, are commonly encountered in these places. We are probably most familiar with the lymph nodes located in our neck area. These lymph nodes commonly swell up and are detectable by touch when we have a sore throat. You can feel them under chin as two tender lumps on your neck just below you jaw bone. Or perhaps you have had your tonsils removed these too are lymph nodes.

Functions of Lymph Nodes:

1. Defense functions--filtration and phagocytosis
2. Hematopoiesis

Tonsils
Masses of lymphoid tissue located in a protective ring under mucous membranes in the mouth and back of the throat. It Helps to protect against bacteria that may invade tissues in the area around the openings between the oral and nasal cavities. Palatine tonsils--located on each side of the throat.

Thymus
In an unpaired organ consisting of two pyramid-shaped lobes with delicate and finely lobulated surfaces. Is located in the mediastinum, extending up into the neck as far as the lower edge of the thyroid and inferiorly as far as the fourth intercostal cartilage.

Spleen
Located in the left hypochondrium directly below the diaphragm, above the left kidney and descending colon, and behind the fundus of the stomach.

Functions of the Spleen
Defense :As blood passes through the sinusoids, reticuloendothelial cell (macrophages) lining these venous spaces remove microorganisms from the blood and destroy them by phagocytosis.
Hematopoiesis :Monocytes and lymphocytes complete their development to become activated in the spleen. Before birth, red blood cells are also formed in the spleen.
Red blood cell and platelet destruction. :Macrophages lining the spleen's sinusoids remove worn-out red blood cells and imperfect platelets from the blood and destroy them by phagocytosis.
Also break apart the hemoglobin molecules from the destroyed red blood cells and salvage their iron and globin content by returning them to the blood stream for storage in bone marrow and liver.
Blood reservoir : Pulp of the spleen and its venous sinuses store considerable blood which can be released during hemorrhage.