| Pregnancy brings about a change in every woman's | | | | by an overstretching of your ligaments. Although these |
| world that gives you unlimited happiness, infinite | | | | pangs of pain are quite temporary and do not last |
| excitement and a whirlpool of queries. The most | | | | very 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 of | | | | exposing your back to any type of strain else the |
| pregnancy, and a lot more. There are various stages | | | | resultant backache may give you sleepless nights. |
| of every pregnancy that are counted on the basis of | | | | It is around this time, when you are 16 months pregnant |
| weeks. As is said that every pregnancy is different so | | | | that the baby develops the sense of touch and hold. It |
| can be the symptoms and stage by stage | | | | is now that he would start being his playful self. She is |
| developments of the fetus of each. But some | | | | big enough now to have discovered her very first toy |
| common symptoms and developments while you are | | | | that 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, you | | | | it 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 would | | | | umbilical cord so tightly that even the supply of oxygen |
| be somewhere around 2.8 ounces. So the mother is | | | | to her body gets interrupted. But this should not be a |
| supposed to have gained some four to eight pounds | | | | cause of worry to you as she will not clutch to it for |
| of weight. It is because with each passing day, your | | | | very long. This stage of your pregnancy is very crucial |
| angel is growing inside you and what is growing with | | | | as the baby already has developed her urinary tract |
| her are your placenta and uterus both. Your uterus | | | | completely and the circulatory system is also working |
| has started getting more fluid than it used to get earlier | | | | in full order. The baby has already started inhaling and |
| and this naturally causes the body weight to go up. It | | | | exhaling the fluid surrounding her through his lungs. |
| was just at the tenth week that you had just 5 ounces | | | | So, she is growing inside you and the amniotic fluid |
| of the amniotic fluid in the uterus that has now grown | | | | needs 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 your | | | | stage. Therefore, just eat well and guard your baby |
| pregnancy, you can feel your uterus around three | | | | against all odds by taking the necessary precautions. |
| inches underneath your navel. And your growing uterus | | | | This will help you shed off all the worries and enjoy |
| would have given you particular pangs of pain caused | | | | this golden period of your life. |