The 1st term

The 1st term, the first twelve weeks of a pregnancy, also is called the first Trimenon. One also describes this phase of the pregnancy as time of the hormonal rearrangement and the new beginnings.

Changes at the nascent mother
The body of the woman who brings along a pregnancy adapts to the changes. The pregnant woman notices the first gestational signs like mamma spans, nausea, abnormal eating desires, changed feel taste and also external changes at her body, like the darkness coloring of the areola of the nipple. Some women suffer from pregnancy troubles now and must react to it with a change of their habits. The fat depots in the mammas are, filled out these mammas become enlarged due to the tense estrogen and progesterone production. The metabolism must work more now to provide the embryo optimally. The body functions are accelerated. The respiration goes more rapidly and the heart beats once in a while. The abdomen circumference increases only toward the end of the 1st term.

Development of the embryo
The ovulation takes place about two weeks after the first day of the menstruation bleeding The stimulated ovum walks indium of the third week to the womb in the oviduct . It is divided often. It settles in the womb mucosa as a cell heap. The embryo, the placenta and the cord arises from the cell heap. The embryo and the cord swim in the fetus water, surrounded by fetal membranes. Already as of the 5th pregnancy week the embryo is 2 mm of great and a differentiation into head and tail part is visible. The spinal cord is, closed this brain develops and first blood cells and veins arise. The heart as well as the leg and arm dispositions form. As of the 6th week the sense organs and the internal organs develop. As of the 7th week the great joints are, visible the dispositions for toes and fingers available. The internal organs are almost completely available.

In the 8th week the embryo is already 14 mm in size. The construction of the heart is ready. Fingers, toes and eyelids are visible. In the 9th week the formation of the body muscles almost is completed, the jaws are developed completely. Ears and nose stand out. The sexual organs are recognizable. As of the 10th week the fetal heart sounds are perceptible. The training of the taste nerves starts and the disposition of the milk teeth is already ascertainable.

Already in the 11th week all important organs of the embryo are developed and must only improve their performance to size. The internal sexual organs can become (testicles and ovaries) formed, the sex of the unborn certainly be by means of ultrasound. In the 12th week the features of the embryo very much already look like those of a man. The increasing muscle growth leads to spontaneous fetal movements. However, these are so weak that they aren't perceived by the mother yet. Having the finger and toes nails already now. The unborn can suck and swallow fetus waters. The pancreas starts to produce insulin. The embryo is seven to nine centimeters long toward the end of the 3rd month.

Important this period of time
Showing pregnancy test a positive result as of the fourth pregnancy week the. As of the sixth week you should go to the first pregnancy check-up. The mother passport issued and the birth appointment is calculated. As of the 10th week a chorionic villus sampling can be carried out with genetically handicapped mothers or pregnant women over 35 years. Notify your employer of the pregnancy. You then are under maternity regulations and enjoy protection against dismissal.


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