Pregnancy Week 15

Your uterus can be felt about 3 or 4 inches below the navel. At pre-natal visits, "fundal height" will be measured, which is the distance between the top of the uterus to the pubic bone. The skin on the baby is almost transparent. Blood vessels can actually be seen through the skin. 'Lanugo' covers the baby's body, which is very fine hair.

There are various things happening to you during your pregnancy, which you may not be aware of right now. Here we have for you a detailed account of your pregnancy, week by week.

1. Lead a healthy lifestyle just prior to conception – this is vital to having a healthy child.
2. You may actually be pregnant already, if ovulation has taken place in you!
3. The tiny zygote tries to implant itself in your endometrial lining. You may experience some light implantation bleeding now.
4. Do you think you are pregnant? A urine test can confirm it by now.
5. Baby's heartbeat starts off as early as this week!
6. She is starting to develop – her little heart bulges outward from her chest.
7. Hand plates and nasal pits start forming now.
8. Baby's bones and internal genitalia start developing now.
9. Little toe rays start forming now!
10.hank goodness, baby loses her little tail now!

Know The Weekly Progress Of Your Child:
Pregnancy week by week developments should be discussed right from the stage when a woman’s body prepares itself by ovulating. In 14 days, the egg is fertilized into sperm. There will be rapid development in week 4, and it is during this stage that a woman realizes that she is pregnant. If you are interested in detailed pregnancy week by week maturity level of the child, then you must have heard that the primitive streak develops and through this primitive streak the cells usually expands into three layers. The bottom layer is responsible for the development of tongue, lung linings, associated glands and tonsils and so on. The middle layer outlines the muscles, heart, blood cells, excretory and reproduction system and so on. And the topmost layer, firms the skin, eye lens, tooth, mouth, anus, skin and all parts of the nervous system.

Preparing the uterus

While the donor’s ovaries are being stimulated, you will start preparing your uterus to receive the embryos. This means taking Lupron injections to prevent your ovaries from releasing an egg. Since Lupron also stops the production of estrogen and progesterone, you will need to take estrogen supplements to nourish and thicken your uterine lining. The development of your lining will be closely monitered via ultrasound or blood tests. As soon as the lining is approximately 7mm thick, you will stop the estrogen and take progesterone, the hormone that maintains the thickness of the lining and synchronizes the lining’s development with the growth of the embryos. Progesterone supplementation is usually continued until the 11th week of pregnancy.

Have the 40 weeks of week by week pregnancy begun? Am I pregnant? Is it time for paternity testing? If this is what you are thinking than taking a pregnancy test is on the cards.

Read about week by week pregnancy and also read about pregnancy week 13 and pregnancy week 14