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     You have made it to the third and last trimester! But the baby still has some developing to do before he/she is ready to meet the world. In the next 10-12 weeks, your baby’s head will triple in size, they will gain more weight, they will rotate to be head down in preparation for delivery, and the lungs will finally fully mature. (1) (2) Let’s take a closer look at some of the specifics of...

     In the last blog post, I covered the physical changes a baby goes through during the first trimester of pregnancy. This post is going to cover physical changes that occur during the second trimester. We left off at week 12 where the baby is fully formed and is moving around quite a bit (even though you can’t feel it). In the second trimester, the baby continues to grow, facial features...

      In the last blog post, I cover how and when pregnancy occurs. But what happens after fertilization and the baby starts to grow? How is your baby developing and what does their growth look like in the womb? In this blog post, I will be going through each week in the first trimester and discussing how your baby is developing physically. We will go through the second and third trimesters in...

Webster’s Dictionary defines a menstrual cycle as “the cycle of physiological changes from the beginning of one menstrual period to the beginning of the next.” (1) The average length of a woman's cycle is 28 days, but this can vary from woman to woman and even cycle to cycle. (2) During these 28 days, four different phases occur; menstruation, the follicular phase, ovulation, and the luteal...