Find the stages of fetal development

Find the stages of fetal development

Pregnancy is a blessing from God, a mysterious stage but a beautiful experience, and the process of developing the fetus of things that the mother is eager to know and follow.

Pregnancy is often divided into three stages

The first stage

(Covering the first three months), phase II (including months 4 to 6) and phase III (including the last three months).

The first stage :

This period extends for 12 weeks, characterized by the following period:

In the fifth week, the brain and spinal cord are formed. The pregnant woman feels a slight swelling and stiffness in the breasts. The blood vessels and the heart begin to form in the fetus. In the sixth week.

In this period, the pregnant woman may experience nausea, increased urination, a feeling of fullness in the lower abdomen. The four limbs, bones, joints, face, neck, skeleton, toes and hands of the fetus may have formed during this period. The kidneys begin to work, the fetus begins with a simple movement, and a slight increase in weight and a slight increase in abdominal size occurs at the end of the first trimester.

The second phase

This phase of the week extends from 13 to 28, and this period is characterized by:

Where the mother’s weight increases clearly, and feel some pain in the abdomen and back, and complete the formation of the placenta, and the size of the abdomen to become significantly visible, and can determine the sex of the fetus in this period often, and moves the fetus vigorously and the mother moves, To hear, and the formation of eyebrows and eyelids, and also begins the fatty tissue with the body of the fetus and the fluff appears on the skin, and in this period the respiratory system begins to work.

third level

This stage of week 28 extends to birth, characterized by:

The size of the mother’s belly increases, rises and falls a little before birth, the number of urination increases in the mother due to the pressure of the uterus on the bladder, the fetus is vital and viable, it moves and changes its position in the womb, and the lungs continue to ripen. Fetal growth At the beginning of the ninth month, the respiratory system and the immune system of the fetus are ready to work outside the uterus.