Your Amazing Pregnancy Timeline

The pregnancy timeline, I would like to give you details of my partner’s pregnancy timeline from a guy’s point of view. We found out that my girlfriend was pregnant about 3 months ago. We were planning it but we still were a little surprised with how quickly that it happened.

Pregnancies last about 40 weeks, starting the count from the first day of your last period to the date of the baby’s delivery. It is divided into three sections called trimesters. Most people refer to pregnancy as lasting “nine months,” although it is truly 10 lunar months of 28 days more or less, including the two before the egg is fertilized and implanted in your uterus.

If you plan to get pregnant or try to have a baby, these are some things you can be doing to get your body, your family, and your budget ready for the big day when baby arrives.

If you take medications to treat a chronic condition, don’t stop on your own, but contact the doctor right away and review your medications. Find out what is safe to take as your pregnancy continues. Some medications, vitamin supplements, over-the-counter medicines and even herbal remedies can harm a growing fetus. Many of these should be avoided while you are pregnant.

Stop smoking and taking any illegal drugs.

Smoking cigarettes and taking any “street” drugs, including using marijuana, increases the risk of problems during pregnancy including low birth weight, miscarriage, stillbirth and other serious issues. The fetus is especially sensitive to nicotine, which passes through the placenta and slows its growth. The first trimester of pregnancy is the time when the fetus is most at risk to harm from substances like alcohol, drugs, and nicotine. Ask your partner to stop smoking and using drugs, too, especially around you and the baby. Reducing the risk of birth defects is worth not lighting up whenever possible.

Stop drinking alcohol.

Even one alcoholic drink per day increases the odds of lower birth weight and increases the child’s risk of learning disabilities and hyperactivity disorder. No one knows why this is the case, so it is best to avoid alcohol completely.

First Pregnancy Timeline

When you first find out your partner is pregnant it is very exciting. Soon after that though they start to experience the signs of pregnancy and can make it tough for you. It is normal for that to happen but I would like for you to understand beforehand the changes that this might have.

Well the first common symptom of pregnancy that nearly everyone has heard of is morning sickness. It wasn’t just in the mornings that she had this feeling. It tended to occur when she felt hungry. Although she was not actually physically sick, she did get the feeling a lot but by the 14 week along the pregnancy timeline these feelings do pass.

The amount of energy that she had dropped from their normal levels. She started to feel tired all of the time. She started to get out of bed later each day which impacted on her normal routine. Although that tiredness is a problem it is still important that your partner tries to maintain their normal daily routine for as long as she can.

You will also notice that in the evening that she will want to do a lot more sitting around and you may be required to take a more active role in the housework. This is something that you should be sympathetic of but remember the tiredness will pass further along the pregnancy timeline.

Your partner is likely to have different reactions than my girlfriend but here are a few things that she might suffer from. The other possible symptoms include mood swings, food cravings, constipation, headaches, backaches and weight gain. Obviously the last one is a joke.

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