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First Month Pregnant: Your belly will be the same size as pre-pregnancy, but you may experience some fatigue, breast engorgement and frequent urination,
Second Month Pregnant: The fetus head is growing more rapidly than the other parts as the brain has a crucial role in regulating the function of all the vital organs.
3 months pregnant (Weeks 9-13)
Third Month Pregnant: Your abdomen and breasts are growing larger. Baby is in a “floating” position, weighs about an ounce (about 28g.) and is 3inches (8cm) long.
4 months pregnant (Weeks 14-17)
Fourth Month Pregnant: Maternity clothes may be required by now. Baby is now about 6 inches (about 15cm.) long, and weighs 1/4 lb. (about 114g.).
5 months pregnant (Weeks 18-21)
Fifth Month Pregnant: The skin on your abdomen stretches considerably. The Doctor can hear Baby’s heartbeat with a stethoscope, and Baby’s movements are more easily felt.
6 months pregnant (Weeks 22-26)
Sixth Month Pregnant: As your abdomen continues to enlarge, Baby’s movements become more vigorous. The skin is red, wrinkled and covered with soft down, and hair has begun to grow
7 months pregnant (Weeks 27-30)
Seventh Month Pregnant: Baby’s eyes are open. If born at this time, Baby has some chance of survival. Weight is about 2 ½ lbs. (about 1 kilo 130g.) and about 15 inches
8 months pregnant (Weeks 31-35)
Eighth Month Pregnant: Baby’s movements are more forceful and may be seen from outside. Weight has increased to about 4 lbs. (about 1 kilo 812g.), and length to about 16 ½ inches
9 months pregnant (Weeks 36-40)
Ninth Month Pregnant: Baby settles lower into the abdomen, ready for birth. Most of the fuzzy down on the body has disappeared, and the head may be covered with hair.
The pregnancy is the fertilization and development of one or more off spring known as an embryo or fetus and it’s the period from conception till birth.
The egg is fertilized by a sperm then implanted in the in the lining of the uterus to develop to placenta and embryo, and later to fetus.
Pregnancy Guide
A home pregnancy test measures the presence of the hormone human chorionic gonadotrophin (hCG) in your urine. This hormone is first secreted at the time the fertilised egg implants in the uterus (about six days after fertilisation) by the cells which go on to form the placenta. Levels of the hormone build up rapidly in your body in the first few days following implantation. Usually, home-pregnancy tests should be able to pick up the hCG in your urine by the first day you miss your period. Levels of hCG peak between the 60th and 90th days of pregnancy.
If you have a negative result when you first test, it may be that the levels of hCG have not yet reached a level where they can be detected by a test, even by the day your period is due, so you may want to wait a few days then test again.
Not all pregnancy tests are the same. Some are more sensitive and usually more expensive as a result. The more sensitive tests can detect pregnancy even if you have only a small amount of hCG in your system. Concentrations of hCG are reported in milliInternational Units (mIU) or amounts equal to 1/1000th of an IU per millilitre. A test with a sensitivity of 20 IU/L is more sensitive than one with 50 IU/L. You should be able to find this information on any pregnancy test box.
There are many popular kits are available these days. like Acutest, Clearview, velocid pregnancy test kits. all these are based on HCG detection principle. not something special.
Remember you need to take early morning sample (First Urine In Morning). Take urine in dropper, put 3 drops of urine in a round well, do not put anything on rectangular block where you see “C T” is written. C means control and T means Test. You can read this test with in 5 minutes. If you see two pink lines one at C and another at T that means you are pregnant, i.e result is positive. If you see only one pink line at C that means test is negative. If you do not see any line, it means test is invalid. Either kit has expired, or proper urine sample is not taken.
Sometimes if you do the test early the other line is a bit lighter as hCG will be a bit lower, but don’t worry. You are definetly pregnant.
Below is a excellent Youtube video showing a Pregnancy test using test kit .