Get in your belly!
Sep 06, 2019
4 minutes
0-4 WEEKS
A lot happens in the crucial first month of your pregnancy. Your embryo is growing by around 1 mm every day and by the end of the fourth week, it will be as big as the nib of a ballpoint pen, with its brain, heart, lungs, liver and kidneys already starting to form.
FOCUS ON The heart
By the end of the third week, your baby’s first blood vessels will start to grow. However, at this early stage, they’ll be no thicker than a single strand of hair. Then, in the fourth week, the single cell that will become your baby’s heart will kick-start, encouraging the surrounding cells to move to the same beat and divide
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