Weekly Pregnancy Calendar

Weekly Pregnancy Calendar

A weekly pregnancy calendar is a chronological record of the changes a woman and her fetus will undergo during the course of her pregnancy. It describes at length the growth and development of growing baby and expected changes in the mother's body with advancing pregnancy, on a weekly basis. At the early sign of pregnancy, print out one such web weekly pregnancy calendar and put it on a spot where you can see it daily for monitoring your pregnancy progress.

Importance of a weekly pregnancy calendar

A visit to a doctor after experiencing the early signs of pregnancy will confirm your pregnancy. The doctor will calculate your probable due date of delivery. This date is usually about forty weeks from the first day of your last menstruation. A very small number of babies are actually born on their exact due date. Most are born two weeks earlier or two weeks later than the expected due date. This is where the weekly pregnancy calendar becomes important. It helps in keeping the dates of conception, expected due date, track of baby's development through various stages of growth per week and monitors mother's health by telling of body changes you will experience every week.

A full term of pregnancy is separated and divided into three trimesters.

First trimester. First week to twelfth week.

Second trimester. Thirteenth week to twenty- sixth weeks.

Third trimester. Twenty seventh week till the date of baby's delivery.