Pregnancy - Month 2

The second month of pregnancy is a critical month in foetal development. Your baby goes from being a blastocyst to an embryo. Early on in this month your baby's heart will begin to beat. First it beats slowly, then very rapidly, later in pregnancy the heart rate will slow a bit more. In the beginning of this month it's hard to tell which way is up on your baby. As this month progresses it becomes very easy to tell which end is your baby's head is and which end is your baby's bottom. By the end of the month your baby's upper and lower limb buds will also appear. And the primordia of the liver, pancreas, lungs, and stomach are evident. While your baby is a girl or a boy, it is not yet apparent without genetic screening. Your baby is now measuring between 8-11 mm from crown to rump (CRL). By the end of this month heart activity is always present on ultrasound. Toe and finger rays are present, though not quite enough for you to count yet.

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Get Your Baby Sleeping

Bringing a new baby into the world is a beautiful experience, but it can also be filled with a multitude of anxieties. One major source of that anxiety is in trying to figure out how to get your baby sleeping through the night. Hopefully this article will provide you with some important tips from the baby sleep book, Sleep Baby Sleep, and will get you started on your way to having a better sleeping baby and a well-rested house.

Behavioural Problems in Children

Any parent knows how annoying and stressful their children's bad behaviour can be, no matter what the circumstances. Fighting with their family, throwing temper tantrums, not doing as they are told and answering back their parents stand for just a small part of behavioural problems in children.

Parenting Issues

Welcome to our newest section, here we hope to be able to provide you with some requested information. As you may notice we do have a poll in place, the results of which are combined with other requests we receive. Information is then collated and passed on to our team of dedicated researches who are working valiantly to bring you all the information you require.

Bedwetting

Don't worry, bedwetting is surprisingly common. Around one in eight children starting primary school today still wet the bed regularly at night. Fortunately there is hope, as bedwetting becomes less common as children get older. Around 5% of 10 year olds (that's one in twenty) and 2% of 12 to 14 year olds (one in fifty) still wet the bed.