Fetal Development

Yes. All fetuses have a heartbeat, they're all alive.be happy. Hi Franky, Gustavo, and Alexis ! I told you a fetus has a heartbeat, it's in the answer. ;D

In the first three weeks, the embryo has formed the forebrain, the midbrain and the hindbrain. In your second trimester, the major structures of the brain are in place and functioning. From this point the brain and organs continue to develop.

Yes, it is the onset of a condition known as infinifetus, in which fetuses grow inside each other with no end, the result being a horrific M.C. Escher-esque conglomerate.

Or you could just learn to use Google. Until you do, search for 'Fetus in fetu', should be relevant to your interests.

You will be able to touch your abdomen and begin to notice the increased size of your uterus usually around the same time that you begin to "show", near week 10 of most pregnancies. You may start to feel the movement of the baby around the fifth month (20 weeks). Women who are overweight usually don't feel it as soon as smaller women, but most will feel the movement, pokes, and kicks by week 21.

In the second month, the embryo is only about an inch long. However, it's beginning to look much more like a baby at this stage.

The tail is gone, and arms and feet (along with fingers and toes) have formed. Eyes are developed with eyelids sealed shut. Also formed are the ears, a nose tip, and a tongue.

All major body organs and systems are present, but they all still have a great deal of development to go through.

Then embryo will make spontaneous movements, but it will be many weeks before those movements will be strong enough for you to feel them.

The placenta, which serves as the baby's life support system, is currently being busily built.

At week 26, the fetus can survive outside the womb. That is at about 6 1/2 months. Anything before this, the lungs will not be developed enough to live. Even at 26 weeks the lungs are extremely premature. A substance called surfactant is usually given to the newborn which basically makes breathing easier.

Answer: Usually at 5 weeks a fetus is a little bigger than the size of a quarter. So by about 8-9 weeks, which is 2 months, a fetus is about the size of a half-dollar coin. The baby is 1 inch (2.5 centimeters) and already has fingers. You can already see the baby's veins. The heart has divided into right and left chambers

The fetal heartbeat can be heard with a fetal scope between 22 and 24 weeks.

Most home use fetal dopplers can detect the heartbeat at 12-15 weeks.

Clinical level fetal doppler machines that your doctor uses can usually hear the heartbeat between 6-8 weeks.

I just had a US done today, at 6w0d gestation, so i;m about 7.5 weeks on the calendar. The HR was 104bmp. I'm really nervous about it, last m/c i had the hr was 120 at 6w4d, and i lost the baby at 8 weeks. SO, i just saw you question wasn't answered yet, so hopefully your babies HR is higher than mine, but the doc didnt say i should worry ( he say that last time too tho).

Feels pretty much like a pop. Sometimes you can actually see your stomach popping up and down depending on how often the fetus kicks or move.

A new test has been developed, called FASTER (First and Second Trimester Evaluation Risk), with which Down syndrome will be able to be detected during the first trimester of the pregnancy - about 11 weeks after conception - with 87% accuracy.

One of the most common phrases involving pregnancy is that the fetus undergoes what the mother undergoes. so, where can you even begin to answer this question?

Obviously any drugs, including alcohol, cigarettes, and coffee will negatively effect the fetus.

Healthy foods will probably help it. Definitely try to gain weight during pregnancy so that the baby will consume the appropriate nutrients to survive.

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Cortal is Aspirin and can cause fetal damage but not abort.

It can effect the body because you get larger but you would need bigger clothing if your skin around the stomach gets to soar.

At 10 weeks, the baby doesn't look like much, but you can usually see a little ball with a little body and nubs for arms and legs. If you look up 10 week ultrasounds in Google, then you should see a little better example.

i had an ultrasound when i was 6 weeks pregnant, but by ultrasound, the pregnancy measured to be 5 weeks, so no fetal pole was seen yet. i think the earliest fetal poles can be seen is about 6 1/2 - 7 weeks. hope this helps :)

A vessel called the ductus arteriosus (aka ductus Botalli) connects the pulmonary artery to the aorta in a developing fetus. Along with the foramen ovale, the hole connecting the fetal atria, this opening allows venous blood to bypass the non-functional lungs of the fetus and be pumped back into the arteries. Until birth, the oxygenation of fetal blood is through the umbilical cord.

It stands to reason that anger could affect a fetus in the sense that physiologically, anger causes people to breathe more shallowly, their heart beats faster, their digestion slows or stops and so on. However, if the emotion is not a constant thing, it is part of life (in or out of the womb!) the child should not be permanently affected.

I am 21 weeks into my pregnancy and i still can't feel my baby move!

The pregnancy cycle is pretty much done in three month increments, there is the first trimester 0-3 months second trimester 3-6 months and the third trimester is 6-9 months in the first trimester a lot goes on first the sperm fertilizes the egg then the egg divides into many cycles of cells once the egg implants around the 6th week of pregnancy everything starts to develop the placenta grows larger and your baby begins it's journey to being born in the second trimester the baby finishes its development and then starts to grow larger in your last trimester it is just all about weight gain the baby will gain about a pound a week until it is born, you can also go to pregnancy.org they even have color pictures to help you understand it all better.

No the vibrations are not intense enough to reach the baby. Although it could detect the emotions of the mother caused by the music.