Feeling the Presence of Your Baby at 16 Weeks Pregnant

Pregnancy brings about a change in every woman'sby an overstretching of your ligaments. Although these
world that gives you unlimited happiness, infinitepangs of pain are quite temporary and do not last
excitement and a whirlpool of queries. The mostvery long, the cause of the pain is going to stay for
important ones being your Pregnancy Symptoms,long. Therefore, you must be extra cautious about not
worries about what would happen at each stage ofexposing your back to any type of strain else the
pregnancy, and a lot more. There are various stagesresultant backache may give you sleepless nights.
of every pregnancy that are counted on the basis ofIt is around this time, when you are 16 months pregnant
weeks. As is said that every pregnancy is different sothat the baby develops the sense of touch and hold. It
can be the symptoms and stage by stageis now that he would start being his playful self. She is
developments of the fetus of each. But somebig enough now to have discovered her very first toy
common symptoms and developments while you arethat is the umbilical cord. She may have learnt to start
16 weeks pregnant are listed as under.clutching it by now. She would actually enjoy tugging at
As you reach the 16th week of your pregnancy, youit and grabbing it with her tiny hand. While you are 16
have a life about 4.3 to4.6 inches breathing within you.months pregnant, your baby at times may clutch the
The average weight of the fetus at this stage wouldumbilical cord so tightly that even the supply of oxygen
be somewhere around 2.8 ounces. So the mother isto her body gets interrupted. But this should not be a
supposed to have gained some four to eight poundscause of worry to you as she will not clutch to it for
of weight. It is because with each passing day, yourvery long. This stage of your pregnancy is very crucial
angel is growing inside you and what is growing withas the baby already has developed her urinary tract
her are your placenta and uterus both. Your uteruscompletely and the circulatory system is also working
has started getting more fluid than it used to get earlierin full order. The baby has already started inhaling and
and this naturally causes the body weight to go up. Itexhaling the fluid surrounding her through his lungs.
was just at the tenth week that you had just 5 ouncesSo, she is growing inside you and the amniotic fluid
of the amniotic fluid in the uterus that has now grownneeds to be increased in the coming weeks as you
to 7.5 ounces as you are 16 weeks pregnant.graduate to the next stage from 16 weeks pregnant
At this stage when you are in the 16th week of yourstage. Therefore, just eat well and guard your baby
pregnancy, you can feel your uterus around threeagainst all odds by taking the necessary precautions.
inches underneath your navel. And your growing uterusThis will help you shed off all the worries and enjoy
would have given you particular pangs of pain causedthis golden period of your life.