20 WEEK OF PREGNANCY…you have passed through half of your 40 week pregnancy trip. You should enjoy every moment that the pregnancy has to offer to you, every emotion, every new feeling that you experience, every pregnancy symptom that you have, every reaction of your baby. I think the women are blessed to experience the pregnancy period and to have the possibility to create and develop a new life inside their wombs. Women are lucky to experience the 9 months of pregnancy and to share their bodies with their babies and in this way to create the precious of all relationships that exist in this world between humans, the relationship between a mother and her baby.
Of course, in this world there are women who don’t know to appreciate this privilege that God gave to women, the privilege of carrying the babies inside the womb and giving birth to them and kill their babies, or abandon them, or don’t care for them, or give them for adoption. From your point of view, what should be the price that those women should pay? Is there any price for them to pay? I sincerely don’t think!
Now, let’s see what happens during the 20th pregnancy week with the mother and what is the development stage of the baby.
Starting with the 16th pregnancy week, you will start to feel your baby moving inside your womb, he starts to make you be more conscious of his presence inside your womb. Check this out.
By now, your bell has growth and your health care provider starts to measure it in order to check the baby’s development and growth. The health care provider measures the baby in order to see if he is developing properly and that there are no health problems regarding his state of health and development. The risk factors that may put in danger the growth of your baby and that you should take into consideration are:
-chronic hypertension;
-chronic medical illness;
-low weight of the mother before the pregnancy;
-not enough weight gain during pregnancy;
-abuse of drugs, cigarettes or alcohol during pregnancy,
-twingestation,
-anemia
As you can see the care that you have for yourself before and during the pregnancy as well as other medical conditions influence the health of your baby. I think that is no man on this planet to think that is other thing more important then the health.
By the 20 week of pregnancy the baby that grows inside your womb weight approximately 11 ounces and measures approximately 10 inches. As the measurements of the baby will proceed you will be surprised to see how remarkable are the changes in your baby’s development. Your growing baby practices breathing and swallowing and his head becomes more and more proportional with the rest of the body as your pregnancy evolves. The skin of the baby forms different layers and is more complex.
This is how your baby looks like at 20 week of pregnancy. Check it out! It’s actually very funny if you try with your partner to identify the baby’s body parts from the ultrasound picture. Try it now!