Pregnancy & Baby Guides
Pregnancy by week (1–40), then baby's first year by month.
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Pregnancy (1-40)
Months (1-12)
🤰 Pregnancy — Week by Week
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Week 1
1st Trimester
🌱 Journey Begins
Your uterus is preparing its lining for a potential pregnancy. Estrogen levels are rising, and your body is building the...
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Week 2
1st Trimester
This is the fertile window — conception is most likely to occur in the 5 days before ovulation and the day of ovulation ...
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Week 3
1st Trimester
The zygote divides rapidly — from 1 cell to 2, 4, 8, 16, and so on. The outer cells will become the placenta; the inner ...
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Week 4
1st Trimester
Your body is now pumping out hCG — the hormone a pregnancy test detects. By the end of this week, most home tests will s...
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Week 5
1st Trimester
Your hCG levels are rising fast right now, which is why pregnancy symptoms can hit harder this week. Nausea, sore breast...
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Week 6
1st Trimester
💓 Heartbeat Detected
Week 6 is often when pregnancy symptoms really kick in — nausea affects around 80% of pregnant women in the first trimes...
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Week 7
1st Trimester
By 7 weeks, every essential organ has started forming — heart, brain, liver, kidneys, lungs, stomach. This is one of the...
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Week 8
1st Trimester
This is typically when your first prenatal appointment happens, and it's a big one — expect it to last around an hour. Y...
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Week 9
1st Trimester
Nausea is often at its peak around Week 9, which makes sense because hCG levels are at their highest right now. Your ute...
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Week 10
1st Trimester
Week 10 is often when providers offer or discuss the NIPT (non-invasive prenatal test) — a blood test that screens for c...
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Week 11
1st Trimester
Your uterus is now about the size of a grapefruit and your doctor can feel the top of it just above your pubic bone. The...
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Week 12
1st Trimester
The risk of miscarriage drops significantly after Week 12 — this is why many people choose this week to share their preg...
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Week 13
1st Trimester
🎉 Second Trimester
For most people, the second trimester brings real relief: nausea starts to ease, energy begins to return, and the risk o...
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Week 14
2nd Trimester
Your blood volume is increasing dramatically right now — by the end of pregnancy, you'll have about 50% more blood than ...
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Week 15
2nd Trimester
Between Weeks 15 and 20, a quad screen or AFP blood test may be offered as a second round of screening for chromosomal c...
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Week 16
2nd Trimester
Many people start feeling their baby move for the first time somewhere between Weeks 16 and 22 — it's described as a flu...
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Week 17
2nd Trimester
Your own body is working harder than ever — your heart is pumping about 20% more blood per beat than pre-pregnancy, and ...
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Week 18
2nd Trimester
Your anatomy scan — the big mid-pregnancy ultrasound — is typically scheduled around Weeks 18–20. The sonographer will c...
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Week 19
2nd Trimester
The anatomy scan is happening this week for many people. Beyond the exciting part of possibly finding out the sex, the s...
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Week 20
2nd Trimester
🎯 Halfway There!
From Week 20, your uterus is roughly level with your belly button and will grow about 1cm per week from here on. Your pr...
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Week 21
2nd Trimester
You may notice your baby is most active when you're lying still or trying to sleep — that's because when you're moving a...
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Week 22
2nd Trimester
The glucose challenge test — a screening for gestational diabetes — is typically done between Weeks 24 and 28, so your p...
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Week 23
2nd Trimester
Week 23 is significant medically: babies born this early, with intensive NICU care, have a chance of survival — though i...
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Week 24
2nd Trimester
Week 24 is the standard viability milestone — from this point, most hospitals will provide full neonatal care if a baby ...
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Week 25
2nd Trimester
From about now, your provider may recommend starting kick counting — choosing a time each day to count your baby's movem...
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Week 26
2nd Trimester
You're approaching the end of the second trimester, and prenatal visits will start becoming more frequent from Week 28 o...
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Week 27
2nd Trimester
✨ Third Trimester
Third trimester — welcome. From here, visits become more frequent and the focus shifts from development to growth, posit...
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Week 28
3rd Trimester
From Week 28, your provider will recommend kick counting as a regular practice — tracking 10 movements within a 2-hour w...
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Week 29
3rd Trimester
Heartburn and indigestion often become significant from now on, as your growing uterus pushes the stomach upward. Smalle...
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Week 30
3rd Trimester
Your centre of gravity has shifted significantly, which can affect your balance and make you feel clumsier than usual. T...
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Week 31
3rd Trimester
Shortness of breath is very common around now as your uterus pushes up against the diaphragm, leaving less room for your...
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Week 32
3rd Trimester
From Week 32, appointments become weekly or every two weeks depending on your provider. They'll check your blood pressur...
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Week 33
3rd Trimester
If your baby is in a breech position, your provider may discuss ECV (External Cephalic Version) — a procedure where a do...
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Week 34
3rd Trimester
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) swab testing typically happens between Weeks 35–37. GBS is a common bacteria that lives harm...
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Week 35
3rd Trimester
At 35 weeks, most babies are in their final position. If yours is still breech, this is the week to have a more detailed...
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Week 36
3rd Trimester
From Week 36, appointments are weekly. Your midwife will check the baby's position at every visit and monitor for signs ...
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Week 37
3rd Trimester
Full term officially starts at 39 weeks according to the American College of Obstetricians — 37–38 weeks is early term, ...
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Week 38
3rd Trimester
Only about 1 in 20 babies are born on their actual due date. Labour can begin naturally any time from now to Week 42 and...
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Week 39
3rd Trimester
At 39 weeks, you're at the lowest risk of any complications associated with either prematurity or post-maturity. Babies ...
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Week 40
3rd Trimester
🎊 Due Date!
Only about 5% of babies are born on their actual due date — the other 95% arrive either side of it. If you reach 40 week...
👶 Baby's First Year — Month by Month
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Month 1
Baby's First Year
Your newborn is running entirely on instinct right now — and those instincts are impressive. They can root for the breas
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Month 2
Baby's First Year
Month 2 brings the moment every parent is waiting for: the first real social smile. Not a wind smile — a genuine, eyes-l
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Month 3
Baby's First Year
Month 3 is when your baby really starts communicating — cooing, gurgling, and making a range of vowel sounds as if testi
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Month 4
Baby's First Year
Month 4 is big developmentally — and if sleep suddenly goes haywire, that's why. Your baby's sleep cycles are maturing f
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Month 5
Baby's First Year
Your baby's hands have become their favourite toys. They examine them endlessly, swap objects from one hand to the other
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Month 6
Baby's First Year
Six months is a landmark. Your baby has likely doubled their birth weight, can sit with minimal support (and some can si
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Month 7
Baby's First Year
Month 7 is the month things start disappearing from coffee tables. Crawling — in whatever form it takes, whether classic
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Month 8
Baby's First Year
Your baby now fully understands object permanence — they know that things and people exist even when out of sight. This
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Month 9
Baby's First Year
Cruising — walking sideways while holding onto furniture — is the defining skill of Month 9. Your baby is testing their
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Month 10
Baby's First Year
There is nothing in your home that is safe. Your 10-month-old is curious about everything, increasingly mobile, and has
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Month 11
Baby's First Year
Your baby is teetering on the edge of toddlerhood in every sense. Many are taking their first solo steps this month — an
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Month 12
Baby's First Year
Your baby has completed their first trip around the sun — and the transformation from that tiny, helpless newborn to thi