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A more recent trend in the United Kingdom has been the replacement of the kick chart with jewelry-based counters. A pregnancy bracelet is a wearable form of kick counter. The bracelets available work on similar principles: the baby kicks, the mother moves a marker. The idea is that this is more practical than using a pen and paper.
Also starting about week 12, the thoracic diaphragm moves up and down as if the fetus were breathing, but this movement disappears about week 16 and does not resume until the third trimester. [16] Movements such as kicking continue, and the mother usually feels movement for the first time, an event called quickening, during the fifth month. [17]
Gestational age: 5 weeks and 0 days until 5 weeks and 6 days old. 36–42 days from last menstruation. Embryonic age: Week nr 4. 3 weeks old. 22–28 days from fertilization. The embryo measures 4 mm (1 ⁄ 8 in) in length and begins to curve into a C shape. The heart bulges, further develops, and begins to beat in a regular rhythm.
Labor induction if gestational age >32 weeks; Repeating test same day if <32 weeks, then delivery if BPP <6; 6 Labor induction if >36 weeks if favorable cervix and normal AFI; Repeating test in 24 hours if <36 weeks and cervix unfavorable; then delivery if BPP <6, and follow-up if >6; ≥ 8 Labor induction if presence of oligohydramnios
The fetus is considered full-term between weeks 37 and 40 when it is sufficiently developed for life outside the uterus. [14] [15] It may be 48 to 53 cm (19 to 21 in) in length when born. Control of movement is limited at birth, and purposeful voluntary movements continue to develop until puberty. [16] [17]
The third trimester is defined as starting, between the beginning of week 28 (27 weeks + 0 days of GA) [36] or beginning of week 29 (28 weeks + 0 days of GA). [4] It lasts until childbirth . Timeline of pregnancy, including (from top to bottom): Trimesters, embryo/fetus development, gestational age in weeks and months, viability and maturity stages