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First Trimester Second Trimester Third Trimester

Time period: 0 – 13 weeks Time Period: 14 – 26 weeks Time Period: 27 – 40 weeks

Appropriate Weight Gain: Appropriate Weight Gain: Appropriate Weight Gain:


1 – 4.5 pounds 1 – 2 pounds per week 1 – 2 pounds per week

Structures Developing: Milestones: Structures Developing:


• Brain and spinal cord • You might start to feel movement • Bones are formed, but soft
development • You might be able to find out the • Eyes opening and closing
• Heart (& heart beat!) sex! • Practicing breathing
• Major organs • More body fat
• Arms, legs, fingers, & toes Structures Developing: • Organs are ready to function on
• Eyelids • Muscles, tissues, and bones their own (between 37 & 40
• Nerves and muscles • Skin weeks)
• Sex organs • Intestinal tract and lungs • Baby turns head-down
• Sucking reflex of the mouth
Possible Maternal Symptoms: • Eyebrows, eyelashes, fingernails, Possible Maternal Symptoms:
• Nausea toenails • Sometimes difficulty breathing
• Extreme tiredness • Hearing and swallowing • Heartburn
• Tender Breasts • Blood cells • Swelling
• Increased Urination • Hair • Hemorrhoids
• Constipation • Sex organs begin to get into place • Tender breasts
• Headaches • Leaking breasts
• Heartburn Possible Maternal Symptoms: • Belly button sticking out
• Cravings • Decrease in morning sickness • Problems sleeping
• Less tired • Baby lowering in your abdomen
What is Morning Sickness? • Body aches and pains in the back, • Contractions
Morning sickness is shown by symptoms stomach area, groin, or thigh
such as an upset stomach, sometimes • Stretch marks FUN FACT:
accompanied by throwing up. • Darkening of nipples Your baby is going to be here soon! Most
• Dark line down the belly babies are born between 6 pounds 2
FUN FACT: • Itchiness and swelling ounces and 9 pounds 2 ounces, but can
Your baby is about 3 inches long at the • Tingling or numb hands be bigger or smaller. Your baby will
end of 12 weeks! That’s about the size of probably be between 1.5 feet long and
FUN FACT: 1.75 feet long, but can be larger or
Your baby is about 1 foot long and is smaller!
about 1.5 pounds!
References:
What is normal weight
gain? https://www.ucsfhealth.org/condi
tions/pregnancy/trimesters.html
The Phases of Pregnancy:
Overall Weight Gain (single baby):
Underweight before pregnancy:
28 – 40 pounds
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/he
alth/articles/fetal-development-
Information about
stages-of-growth
Normal weight before pregnancy:
25 – 35 pounds https://www.womenshealth.gov/p growth of the
regnancy/youre-pregnant-now-
Overweight before pregnancy: what/stages-pregnancy
15 – 25 pounds Mother & Baby
https://www.cdc.gov/reproductive
Obese before pregnancy: health/maternalinfanthealth/preg
11 – 20 pounds nancy-weight-gain.htm
Overall Weight Gain (twins): http://americanpregnancy.org/pr
Underweight before pregnancy: egnancy-health/pregnancy-
50 – 62 pounds weight-gain/
Normal weight before pregnancy: Photo From:
37 – 54 pounds

Overweight before pregnancy: https://images.onhealth.com/ima


31 – 50 pounds ges/slideshow/pregnancy_stages_
s2_3_stages.jpg
Obese before pregnancy:
25 – 42 pounds

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