Pregnancy week by week

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You

Similarly to your child you are gaining weight, but you should still feel quite well and you are probably quite active. The majority of the gained kilos are spent on the growing of the baby.

 

Your baby

Congratulations. According to the acts of the Republic of Estonia your baby is now the citizen of the Republic of Estonia. The light adipose tissue covering the baby’s body helps to keep warm already. Pancreas has started to work and produces hormones. The baby has eyebrows, lashes and fingers and its hair is growing. The nose is taking the shape, as the gristles are forming. The child’s vertebras are clearly visible.

 

The inner ear of the baby has developed and guarantees the sense of balance for it. The baby waves eagerly with hands and legs and puts hands together. It is most alert probably when you rest and think about it. If it sleeps, a part of its dream is REM, i.e. rapid eye movement dream, when the brain activity is active and eyes move under the closed eyelids. At the same time the tiny ears of the baby hear the sounds of the outer world and heavy noise could wake it up.

 

If you have had premature births before, you might be interested in our assessment of the length of cervix and premature birth risk.

 

Why is it important to know the existence of risk of premature birth?

One of the most important complications during pregnancy is the birth before pregnancy week 32. The majority of children who are born before week 24 die and the majority who are born after week 32, survive. One of the reasons of premature birth is the deficiency of cervix of the pregnant, as a result of which the cervix opens up, the amniotic fluid breaks out and the premature birth starts. This is the disorder of the composition of the cervix of the uterus – between collagen and elastin, as a result of which the cervix of the uterus is unable to offer supporting function and starts to open up in growing of fetus at the increase of pressure. The special FMF (Fetal Medicine Foundation, London) risk calculation programme enables, considering the anamnesis of mother and measuring the length of the cervix of uterus inside the vagina, to assess the risk of premature birth. The placing of the cervical suture could be offered to the mothers with higher prematurity risk. The given method decreases the premature birth risk by 25%. As a result of new scientific researches the intravaginal progesterone treatment by risk group pregnant gives the equal impact with the cervical suture in avoiding the premature birth.