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NCM107 - ML1 How Your Baby Grows
NCM107 - ML1 How Your Baby Grows
NCM107 - ML1 How Your Baby Grows
baby grows
during
pregnancy
- Tiny limb buds appear, these grow into your baby’s arm and
legs
- Heart and lungs also begin to form
- By the 22nd day the heart starts to beat
- Nueral tube begins to form
- It becomes the brain and spinal cord
- It is important to take a multivitamin with at least 400
mcgs of folic acid before getting pregnant
- Folic acid helps prevent birth defects in the brain and
spinal cord
-by the end of the first month the baby is about ¼ inch long
Brain Heart and lungs are forming
- Placenta is working
- Placenta grows in the uterus and supplies the baby with
food and oxygen through the umbilical cord throughout
pregnancy
You can pass bad things through the placenta
- Alcohol
- Nicotine
- drugs
- Ears
- Wrist
- Fingers
- Toes
- Ankles
- Toes Are formed
- Eyelids form and grow but are sealed shut
- 1 inch long
- Weighs less than 1/3 ounce
Fingernails and toenails are formed
Baby’s mouth has 20 buds that will become
baby teeth
Fine hairs begin to form on the baby’s skin
You can hear your baby’s heartbeat for the first time
Ask you provider to let you listen
- 2 ½ to 3 inches long
- Weighs 1 ounce
4th month
- Baby moves kicks and swallows
Placenta keeps providing food
- Avoid harmful substances
- 6 to 7 inches long
- Weighs 4 to 5 ounces
5th Month