Fetal Development Information about the developmental stages of your fetus.
Fetal Phone Send your voice straight to your baby in the womb. Expecting mothers will cherish this product. You can even play music to your unborn child by simply placing the mouthpiece to speakers or to a musical instrument.
How Active Should Your Baby Be? There's nothing like the first time you feel your baby move. You'll always remember that first flutter of life, the gentle tap that lets you know your baby is there. Most expectant mothers feel the first signs of life between 16 and 22 weeks.
How Chemical Exposures Affect Reproductive Health One page fact sheets for download and distribution. Each fact sheet includes a Reproductive Outcomes and Routes of Exposure Table which includes information on nearly 50 chemicals/substances, their health effects and where the chemicals are used/found. All health effects data are derived from peer-reviewed literature referenced in Generations at Risk.
How Your Baby Develops Follow your baby's development week by week through your pregnancy with our Fetal Development articles! Want more? See our month-by-month fetal development illustrations below. Each thumbnail illustration links to a larger version for easier viewing.
Obstetric Ultrasound: A Comprehensive Guide to Ultrasound Scans What is Obstetric Ultrasound Scanning? Since its introduction in the late 1950’s ultrasonography has become a Obstetric Ultrasound is a very useful diagnostic tool in Obstetrics. Currently used equipments are known as real-time scanners, with which a continous picture of the moving fetus can be depicted on a monitor screen. Ultrasound scan is currently considered to be a safe, non-invasive, accurate and cost-effectiveinvestigation in the fetus. It has progressively become an indispensible obstetric tool and plays animportant role in the care of every pregnant woman.
Pregnancy Week by Week Welcome! This phase of Pregnancy/Childbirth is trying to help you understand your pregnancy and the fetal development taking place. You will find lots of pictures from the smallest embryo to the largest fetus! We hope you enjoy this section!
Stages of Embryo Development Stages of Embryo General Development shows whole mount views of human development. This is a prototype project.
StorkRadio StorkRadio lets parents-to-be experience the excitement, joy and (perhaps most importantly) peace of mind of listening to your baby's actual heartbeat as it grows in your womb.
Teratogens: The Tests of Time Women have traditionally been cautioned against taking medications during pregnancy, because there are no guarantees that any drug is safe. The only way to do that would be to put the drugs through controlled trials with pregnant women, and no one wants to assume the ethical or legal liabilities of exposing a pregnant woman and her fetus to potential harm.
The Visible Embryo This illustration represents the 23 stages occurring in the first trimester of pregnancy and every two weeks of the second and third trimesters.
