Pregnancy Information

- Perhaps you are looking ahead and want to familiarize yourself with what you might expect during pregnancy.

Take your time and have fun browsing the selection of pregnancy related articles. You will find tools to help with  Ovulation,  Due date,  Timeline,  Weight,  Contractions  and more...

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- Know when you might be fertile with a Basal Body Temperature [BBT] chart also know what other fertility signs to look for to help you conceive.

- Our free Ovulation Calendar can show your most fertile days in your cycles for getting pregnant.

- If you are trying for a boy or a girl, the Ovulation planner will also suggest some actions that you can take, which may, influence the sex of your future baby.

- What decides if it is going to be a boy or girl.  --  Gender prediction methods, do they work?

What better time to look at your lifestyle and make changes than before pregnancy.

- Prepare yourself and your body for pregnancy with a healthy lifestyle and balanced healthy diet.
- Your diet, weight, exercise, smoking and alcohol can all effect your fertility.

- Calculate your BMI - Find out your Body Mass Index and see if you need to lose weight.

- See how your Baby develops during pregnancy, amazing fetal changes,
      week by week,  month by month  and  trimesters.

- How much weight will I gain in Pregnancy?   How much of this bump is Baby?

- Conception Calculator Find out when baby was conceived, from Birth/Due date or LMP.

- Multiples in Pregnancy - What are your chances of twins, triplets, quads, identical and fraternal.

- Due dates for Multiples - Multiples - Twins | Triplets | Quads they arrive a little early

See the embryo and fetus changes in pregnancy

Enter you LMP date to find out what size and weight baby is, or just to see what is going on in your bump this week or month.

When will my bump start to show? When will I feel baby kick? When does baby get into the birth position and go head down?
Find out these answers and more...

As your pregnancy stages progress, your experience will be unique to you and your child and will be the beginning of a beautiful new stage in the life of your family.

Amillia Taylor was just 9.5 inches (24.13 centimeters) long and weighed less than 10 ounces (284grams) when she was born Oct. 24. She was delivered after just under 22 weeks of pregnancy.
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- If you remember the date of the first day of your last menstrual period (LMP) and would like a little help keeping all these dates straight, check out our Due Date Calculator.

- When does the first trimester end and second or third trimester begin?   Find out here.
- Trimester Calculator - The three methods of calculating the trimesters are also explained.

- How Pregnant will I be on.....?
- Are you tired of counting weeks off calendars?   How can you keep track of which week your in?
- Calculate and print out your personal Time line for your Pregnancy.

- Search for names by meaning, origin, sex, beginning letters or ending letters.

- Search for a Baby Names popularity over the past 100 years.

- Popular baby names from around the World.

- See the popular Baby Names of the Decades lists from 1980s to the 2000s.

- What are the Baby naming trends? Biblical? Creative Spelling? Foreign? Brand names? Unisex?...

A good diet is key to a healthy pregnancy. Take a look at some reasons why what you eat is so vital to you and your developing baby.

Calculate your BMI - Find out your Body Mass Index and see if you need to lose weight.

Exercise in Pregnancy

• Exercise before you are pregnant can give you an all around better feeling.

• Exercise before and during pregnancy can help prepare you for carrying around your new baby.

• Exercise during your pregnancy can help you better withstand the rigors of labor and delivery.

• Maintaining fitness during your pregnancy will prepare your body for an easier time of rebounding back to the way you want it. It also helps keep off unnecessary weight gain during your pregnancy which would only make bouncing back more difficult.

- Fill out the form, Print out and Keep with you.

Use this form to generate a medical summary card that you can print out and keep with you in case you need medical aid. You will have your medical info and contact numbers ready when you need them.

During pregnancy, its a good idea to carry your basic medical information.

Prenatal tests

Prenatal Tests Schedule Calculator Enter your dates and get a personal Routine Tests Timeline

What is an ultrasound scan?    What happens during an ultrasound examination?
Who will do the scan?   Why do I need an ultrasound scan?   When are scans usually carried out?
Can the scan show the gender of my baby?

What are Standard ultrasound 2D, Three dimensional 3D, 4D, Doppler, Echocardiograph or Transvaginal ultrasounds?
Examples of ultrasonography you may see used during your pregnancy.

Print out a Fetal kick count chart to record your baby's movements.

Medical Terms

Pregnant women can sometimes become overwhelmed with all the Medical Terminology.
Here are some of the more common words, terms and abbreviations you may come across when you read your notes, or may hear people talking about.

- Smoking in pregnancy ?   Drinking alcohol in pregnancy ?

- Your pregnancy gives you a special reason to quit. - Quit smoking now help and advice.
- By quitting, you protect your baby's health and your own.
- If a woman is smoking during pregnancy, it is never too late for her to stop.
- The sooner a woman stops smoking, the better it will be for both her baby and herself.

- Say No thank-you to alcoholic drinks while pregnant.

- It is not only your health and baby's that improves, your bank balance will also.
- Use the Cigarettes and Alcohol cost Calculator to see what you could save by quitting.
- This could be spent on some quality time together or some of the baby goods you need.