Pregnancy Week Twenty Five

Baby’s Development Crucial work is going on deep in your womb this week. The spine acts as the ‘information highway’ in the human body and at twenty-five weeks, your fetus is busy building hers! This week, the vertebrae, joints, ligaments and rings are developing, building the pathway for communication through her entire body. Her nostrils [...]

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Pregnancy at Week 19

Baby’s Development–It’s time to accept the fact that those hideous maternity jeans may be the only viable option! This week, the top of your uterus should reach your belly button and the bad news is, it’s going to start to grow an inch a week from this point on. Your old skinny jeans are just [...]

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Pregnancy Week Thirteen

Baby’s Development At the start of your second trimester, your fetus is approximately 3 inches long, which is roughly the size of half a small banana. Your little banana is the same weight as your placenta at this time, but in the next few weeks, it will definitely start to put on some weight. This [...]

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Pregnancy Week Seven

Baby’s development This week marks the first huge growth spurt for your developing baby. Its size will increase rapidly, upward to 0.44 to 0.52 inches in seven days. If last week your embryo was a BB pellet, by the time week seven draws to a close, it will be roughly the size of a small [...]

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Week 1 of Pregnancy

Baby’s Development– Many women have a difficult time determining how far along they are as their pregnancy progresses. Are they in the fourth week? Almost fifteen weeks? The number of pregnancy calculators available online are testament to how common this question is. Women everywhere seem to be confused when it comes to gestational age, and with [...]

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Finances, Practicality & Emotions–Baby’s Coming!

The vast majority of preparing for a baby is great fun. The minute you hit one of those Baby-on-the-Way websites, you’re bombarded by pictures of adorable blue-eyed, peach-fuzzed infants and brown-eyed, black-mopped newborns. As soon as your hormones are on the fast track to “What-do-I-need-to-buy?” your computer screen is covered with pictures of furry teddy bears, [...]

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Help After An Abortion – East Bay, California

“I witnessed not only my own transformation but had the true joy of watching others change, grow and develop before my eyes. I watched cries of pain turn to tears of joy and stoic stares turn to tender, warm eyes, releasing years of denial. What a ministry! What a blessing!” This was just one comment [...]

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Baby On the Way

Our first (and only, at this point) child was born in a birthing center. As soon as we knew there was a baby coming, we started looking for alternatives to a hospital, for a number of reasons, none of which were that we are anti-modern-medicine. Being firm in our belief that many “everyday” tests associated [...]

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