What You Need To Know About Pregnancy

Pregnancy can be said to be the carrying of one or more offspring inside the body of a female or woman be from conception to birth. Among all the mammals, human pregnancy is the most studied of all. Pregnancy can be multiple in the sense that twins or triplets may occur.

Pregnancy lasts for about nine months, which means that the birth of the child occurs in 38 to 40 weeks from the day of fertilization. Medically the term embryo is used to describe the developing human for few weeks of fertilization and fetus is used for the same purpose from 2 to 3 months of development till birth.

Pregnancy is divided into three periods (1st, 2nd & 3rd Trimester). This helps to simplify and also refer to the different stages of prenatal development. The first trimmest has the highest risk of miscarriages, while the development of the fetus can be easily to be diagnosed and monitored in the 2nd trimester. The ability of the fetus to survive with or without medical help outside the mother’s uterus is determined at the beginning of the third trimester.

Medically, gravid 1 is used to qualify a woman who is pregnant for the first time while gravid 0 is used for a woman who has never been pregnant that means that Para 1 or 0 and other terms are used to qualify the number of times a woman has gotten pregnant or given birth to a child.

In conclusion, feelings vary from one woman to another in pregnancy. You as a pregnant woman should not have in mind that since your friends’ pregnancy is somehow that yours will be that way. All you need to do is to take time to study your body terms and languages for it will help you a lot.