Fetal Development

The doctor can see the baby as soon as the baby is about 3 months.... the baby is not fully developed but you can see the baby real little the doctor will show you the head arms, ect. but it wont be as clear......

At 14 weeks, your baby is about 3 1/2 inches long and weighs about one ounce! Your baby now has fully developed fingerprints. As your baby moves through your womb, ridges and folds are made in your baby's fingers create prints. This is why no ones fingerprints are identical! Your baby is also developing intestinal actions as well (poop, is building up in his little tummy!)!

No, they are not. The umbilical cord is an actual cord that connects the baby to the placenta. The placenta is the lining of the uterus that is developed over the course of the pregnancy. The placenta is a "filter" through which the baby's food and oxygen is delivered via the umbilical cord. Once the baby is born, the umbilical cord is clipped and severed. The final, 3rd stage of labor, is the passing of the placenta. That happens 15-30 minutes after the baby is born. The placenta is then checked thoroughly, to ensure that is in intact, and that no pieces are left behind in the uterus. This is VERY important, because if any of the placenta is left in the uterus, it will cause an infection, high fever, can lead to infertility. If not removed, the outcome can be lethal.

From my experience, the answer is MAYBE or SOMETIMES. My sister had an u/s at 6.5 weeks and they told her it was a blighted ovum. A sac, but nothing in it. She was so sad, but continued to have pregnancy symptoms, and waited until 9 weeks to have another u/s and that showed that there was a healthy, normal sized baby in there, just wasn't able to be seen for whatever reason at her previous u/s. Sometimes the uterus is tilted, so that the u/s can't view things correctly. Unfortunately, Dr's like you to think they KNOW EVERYTHING, so they rarely tell you that "Everything may be just fine, we may just not be able to see it yet." Check out a website called misdiagnosedmiscarriage. You'll find a lot of information.

Spotting in the second trimester needs to be evaluated by your doctor or clinic. The fact that you feel fetal movement is good. Call your doctor!.

Baby is fine. The Ultrasound is more accurate at estimating your term at 5.5 weeks, since you may not have gotten pregnant just after your period. The estimate of weeks is based on the baby's size and development. Unless the technician stated otherwise, the baby is fine. Actually, predicting the exact date of conception and birth is not an exact science, and can't be, since there are other factors that go into gestation.

Fetal demise can occur and at any gestational age, and even after an autopsy is preformed some parents never get the answer they desperately need. Sometimes it's related to umbilical cord accidents, other times it may be genetics. However the majority of fetal demise or stillbirths are never fully understood. Please support research for stillbirth and sudden infant death.

I had an ultrasound when I was around 5 weeks pregnant. Dont worry...we didnt see a fetus either... just the yolk sac and gestational sac. The fetus is still literally to small to see most likely. U will just go back to the doctors in a few weeks and you will see ur little one. I went back at 9 weeks and he looked like a little baby. It was incredible!!! Good luck and CONGRATS!!!

In a sense, yes, the baby does "breathe" through the umbilical cord. The mother does the breathing for the baby and the umbilical cord carries in fresh, oxygenated blood with nutrition in it. The mother eats and breathes for the baby as well as herself.

Many women experience "morning sickness" during the first trimester of their pregnancy and other women don't. However, women sometimes don't experience morning sickness until they are 6 weeks pregnant. If you do experience morning sickness you should have some relief by 14 weeks. Some women have a greater chance of having morning sickness - migraine sufferers, history of motion sickness, pregnant with multiples and if your family members experienced morning sickness. Consider yourself lucky if you are feeling well and don't worry about it!

You won't be able to feel the baby move until 16 - 22 weeks even though the baby starts to move around week 7. You will be able to see the baby move when you get an ultrasound. The baby's movement feels like butterflies in your stomach and will get stronger as your pregnancy progresses.

It is possible that your health care provider will be able to detect your pregnancy on an ultrasound as early as your fifth or sixth week of pregnancy. However, the sac containing your baby and its heart is so small at this stage that it will probably be difficult to detect. Sometime around the 8th week of pregnancy is the best time to start being able to see your baby on an ultrasound.

A home pregnancy test ,when taken correctly, is considered accurate 14-16 days after ovulation or unprotected sex.

The reproductive system of the female, particularly the placenta which is attached to the uterine wall (the uterus). Maternal blood vessels are "coiled up" next to placental blood vessels and nutrients and oxygen, as well as waste products from the developing fetus, pass the walls of both sets of vessels through a process known as osmosis. Their is probably some active diffusion as well, if I remember correctly, to aid in the transfer of larger molecules. Blood does not typically exchange in large quantities between the mother and baby in a healthy pregnancy, though their may be some incidental exchange, particularly during birth.

The nutrients and oxygen exchanged and given to the infant then travel through the umbilical cord to the developing child.

I'm 7 months pregnant and as far as my doctor tells me, constant or almost constant movement is normal. We're up and moving around all day, why shouldn't the baby? You should see it start to decrease as your pregnancy progresses because the baby will be running out of room to move around, but even now (at 30 weeks) my baby is constantly kicking. Each fetus is different; some may move more than others and more activity in the womb may lead to a more active child once he/she is born.

Through the uterine wall

Through the umbilical cord. The waste products in the blood stream of the fetus is passed into the blood stream of the mother. Then, she, ahem, gets rid of the waste herself for the both of them. Through the umbilical cord and placenta.

It should be, if you are concerned talk to your OB/GYN. You probably won't feel your baby kick until around week 16 and 22, even though the baby has been moving since week 7 or 8. You may have already witnessed these movements during an ultrasound. This is often felt as a fluttering feeling or a grasshopper walking across your belly during the first movements.

no. babies take their first breath when they are born. the baby does not need to breathe as the mother is breathing so there is oxygen in her blood. the mothers blood exchanges oxygen for the babies carbon dioxide and the baby's tissues get oxygen from its blood.

During pregnancy, both nutrients and oxygen pass from the mother's blood to the that of the fetus. by way of the placenta. When the baby is born, then the mother can provide milk (if she breast feeds).

The heart is the first organ to develop in a fetus. Together, blood and the circulatory system, that is powered by the heart, form the first organ system.

First time moms, not usually until 19 wks. Second time mommy's however, it begins as early as 15 wks. That's usually because the first time around you might be confusing your bubbling hungry belly for baby movements, where as the second time you know exactly what it feels like and you can tell if its just hunger bubbles. :)

8 weeks from conception is 10 weeks of pregnancy, is your sonographer confused?

It all depends on what part of the seventh month you are talking about. You need a gestation wheel to figure it out. But it could be 28 to 32 weeks.

First off it is not your stomach per say that grows, it is your uterus. The uterus sits deep in the pelvis and usually fits in there until month 4 when it flips up over your symphysis pubis in need of more room. Every woman is going to be different though with our various body shapes and will be different with each pregnancy as the abdominal muscles change with each.

Yes and No. During the normal course of a pregnacy, No. The mothers and babies blood does not mix or circulate together. The umbilical cord attaches to the placenta. The placenta is the "container" that keeps the baby "isolated" from the mother. The fetal blood flows through the baby, out the umbilical cord to the placenta and no further.

The placental membrane separates maternal blood from fetal blood.

Oxygen and nutrients in the maternal blood in the intervillous spaces diffuse through the walls of the villi and enter the fetal capillaries. (this unfortunately means that bad things like alcohol and drugs diffuse through the membrane, also.)

Carbon dioxide and waste products diffuse from blood in the fetal capillaries through the walls of the villi to the maternal blood in the intervillous spaces.

Just like the walls of your own digestive system, the food you eat does not come into direct contact with your blood, but the nutients get into your blood and are transferred to all parts of your body. Now for the Yes part of the answer. Certain circumstances can cause them to mix, like miscarriage, abortion, and birth. This is when diseases can be transmitted, or problems with blood RH incompatibility can occur, but that's a whole other WikiSubject.