All You Need to Know When You are 12 Weeks Pregnant

Each phase of pregnancy has its own features and contributes differently to the development of your baby. By being 12th weeks pregnant, it means this is the last week of your first trimester which is one of the most difficult phases in your pregnancy. With this week, tremendous fetal development takes place and your baby will have complete hands and will have control over his finger movement which he can open and close or even move to his mouth to suck his thumb. Even his toes now can be curled and the eye muscles as well can be contracted, actually the eyes now are in front of his head after they were at the sides. However, you will not be able to feel any of these movements since your baby size is still too small in your big uterus but fortunately, you will have the chance to hear his heart beating for the first time.

When you are 12 weeks pregnant, the baby intestines too will start to move to the cavity of the baby abdomen after it was emerging into his umbilical cord and the kidney also will continue its development and will start to function and excrete urine to the baby bladder. Many of the baby nerve cells will continue to increase in number and the ears will be positioned in their place. During this week an average normal baby will have a length of two inches and a weight of half an ounce.

At this point of pregnancy when you are 12 weeks pregnant, you will notice many changes that occur to your body, for example, the heart burns will be one of the experiences that you will start to encounter severely. Your size, especially at the waist area has probably increased and many of your clothes will not be appropriate anymore. Actually, you should start shopping for maternity clothes for soon you will not be feeling comfortable in your regular clothes.