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6-Week pregnant: Development and diet
Your child’s growth is in overdrive right about now. So many exciting developments on such a tiny little being! Read more about this week.
7-Week pregnant: Development and diet
Your unborn child is already a pretty impressive 18 mm long. Though you won’t feel it yet, she’s on the move. Read more about this week.
8-Week pregnant: Development and diet
About the size of a robin’s egg, your little one measures about 30 mm long. Learn more about this week.
9-Week pregnant: Development and diet
Two hearts beat as one, as the song says. In actual fact, your child’s heart is beating just fine on its own. Read more about this week.
10-Week pregnant: Development and diet
You are already at week 10 of your pregnancy. Still another 29 weeks to go before you get to meet your little love. Learn more about what’s going on this week.
11-Week pregnant: Development and diet
If you could look inside, you’d see thin little hairs developing on your little love’s eyebrows and above her lip. Read more about this week.
12-Week pregnant: Development and diet
You’re coming to the end of your first trimester. Congratulations! Read more about this week.
13-Week Pregnant: Development and Diet
The start of your second trimester is the start of lots of new development milestones for your unborn child. Read more about this week.
14-Week pregnant: Development and diet
Your little angel is about the size of a grapefruit! Have you felt her move or kick yet? If not, you should be able to in the next weeks! Read more about this exciting time.
15-Week pregnant: Development and diet
Though your little darling is planted deep inside you, this is the week where everything gets set up for his sense of smell. Read more about this week.
16-Week pregnant: Development and Diet
If you could see inside yourself and watch your growing child finally fidgeting with his limbs, you might soon see him sucking his thumb in your tummy! Read more about this week.
17-Week pregnant: Development and Diet
Your little one now weighs more than 200g and is looking more and more like a “real” person every day. Read more about this week.
18-Week pregnant: Development and Diet
Lots of leaps and bounds happening in week 18, from nerve cells multiplying to the beginnings of fingerprints. Read more about this week.
19-Week pregnant: Development and Diet
Your little lodger weighs between 300 and 400 grams – weigh a grapefruit in your hand and that’s about how heavy your child is. Read more about this week.
20-Week pregnant: Development and diet
There’s so much going on in your belly this week that you may want to take a little nap after reading about it! Read more about this week.
21-Week pregnant: Development and diet
Though the foetus now weighs around half a kilo, your little darling still has plenty of room in your belly. And likes to use it when not asleep! Read more about this week.
22-Week pregnant: Development and diet
If you could look inside, you may see your little angel sucking her thumb. It’s nature’s way of getting her ready to breastfeed from birth. Read more about this week.
23-Week pregnant: Development and diet
Your child’s feet are now 4.5 to 5cm in length now, and she weighs considerably over 700g. You have got around 16 more weeks to go! Read more about this week.
24-Week pregnant: Development and diet
Can you feel your little one reacting to noises and your caresses yet? Towards the end of the second trimester is when some women report that this starts to happen, so be on the lookout.
Helping your child build a healthy digestive system starts with having the right food and fluids to support the gut.
Enhancing Brain Development in Your Child
Your child’s growing years are a time of learning.
Is a Germ-Free Home Free From Allergy?
As a parent, one of your main concerns in raising your child is the germs around the house.
Educating Your Child about Allergy
As a parent, you’ve probably wondered more than once how you can help your child if he or she has an allergy, or an allergic reaction.
5 Things You Need To Know About Protein
What is “protein”, anyway? If we remember our high school biology right, it’s one of the building blocks of life, right?
Can the Right Amount of Protein Prevent Obesity?
As a parent, you want nothing more than for your kids to grow up strong and healthy. Pediatricians today highlight the importance of avoiding the risk of obesity in children.
Epigenetics: Making the Most of Your Genes
Did you know that the story of your health doesn’t just start with your personal health? It goes as far back as your grandparents.
Help Your Child’s Healthy Future Today
Have you ever watched your child build a tower of toy blocks?
Health Risks: It’s All In The Genes
Kids get their genes from their moms and dads. Because of this, traits like hair and eye color, handedness, blood type and even the presence of dimples are inherited.
3 Growth Nutrients That You Need To Know
Your child needs different nutrients for growth and development. While each one is important, there are three major nutrients that you need to know right now - proteins, carbohydrates and fat.
Nutrition is especially important during a kid’s early years. But this is actually a balancing act and not a “more is better” scenario.
4 Steps to Check If Your Child Is Obese
Did you know that you there is a way to check if your child is obese or not? It is through the Body Mass Index or BMI and it only takes 4 steps to calculate it:
The Benefits of Iron to Your Child: Cognitive Development and More
Although iron isn’t a nutrient that most people think about, it is still important in your child’s diet. You may be thinking, what is iron, and what’s so important about it?
