Want to know what happens to you and your bum, while you grow?
Check your progress in this week week of pregnancy guide ...
Weeks 1 / 4
You: Blissfully knows what will happen, you have time. Midway through your cycle, you release an egg and it begins its journey down the fallopian tube.
Your boom: Egg meets sperm, egg fertilization happens, and boom! Sex of your baby is already determined. In fertilize an egg made to the womb, its cells dividing all the time. Once the implants are ozove in the wall of the uterus you, you go - you're pregnant!
Hot Tip: If you have not already, start taking a daily vitamin and mineral supplement pregnancy with folic acid - has a choice of marks of all good chemists.
Weeks 5 / 8
You: Around now likely to piss on a stick and received a shock in my life! Whether you were for centuries trying to pregnancy or a total surprise, suddenly is real and which can be much to take in. You may feel very sick right now also because all these hormones will be crazy, so try to take it easy.
Your boom: In Week 8, your baby will be the amount of grapes as buds appear, indicating the beginning of arms, fingers, feet and your toes.
Top Tip: Contact your community midwife (ask your GP surgery) and seminal book in its first meeting.
Weeks 9 / 12
You: You may be trying to keep the pregnancy secret until they hit 12-week mark. It can be really difficult to maintain such great news is secret, but if that's your decision enjoy the excitement and this special time with your partner.
Your bump: Your baby bones are forming, her facial features will appear and it grows very quickly. Up to 12 weeks, all his major organs and structures will be fully formed, and it is about the size of a large strawberries now!
Top Tip: feeling tired? Switch from white, refined foods to wholewheat bread and pasta and brown rice, as they help to balance blood sugar levels, which should help to relieve your fatigue.
Week 13-16
You: It is time to bask in the excitement of others when they say that I expected (and indeed disease should fall). Your heart is difficult to work extra pump blood round your body and you can feel breathless. But many women find the second trimester at least.
Your bump: Your baby will practice inhaling and exhaling and using her facial muscles. It is covered with fine hair called lanugo.
Top Tip: Studies show that baby can react to what they heard about the 16th week. Try playing your favorite songs.
Week 17-21
You: Your fetal anomaly scan will check your babies development and you can understand what sex is, if you choose to. The skin can be changed at that time, so if that is normally dry becomes oily, and vice versa.
Your boom: the legs are becoming more and you can feel those tiny fluttering portend for the first time - a magical moment, which is often mistaken for the wind! It can suck, swallow and blink and your heart gets stronger growth starts to slow. It is in the size of a large banana.
Hot Tip: Your appetite may increase, but do not need extra calories until the third trimester.
Week 22-26
You: Your breasts may begin to leak colostrum - your first baby food. This is quite normal, so do not worry. You may find that your hair is especially thick and glossy - bonus time!
Your boom: By the end of this month, your baby will be approximately 23 centimeters long and perfectly formed (if a bit skinny). In lanugo thickens and darkens his lungs develop and nostrils begin to open.
Top Tip: Snack on bananas, most potassium intake - leg cramps are common and can be caused by lack of potassium.
Week 27-30
You: You may notice that your boom tightens around now - these are Braxton Hicks contractions that you tone the uterus to work. As your constantly expanding uterus presses against the stomach, you may experience heartburn, so eat little but often sleeps propped with pillows will help.
Your bump his eyes are open and she could suck her thumb. She has eyebrows, eyelashes and is sensitive to light, sound and smell.
Top Tip: Finding it hard to sleep with the growing boom? Investing in pregnancy wedge pillow.
Week 31-34
You: Your uterus is about 500 times bigger than its size before pregnancy! Braxton Hicks contractions strengthen and just stop your breath. If you suddenly developed severe headache and feel very sick, call your midwife. You are exposed to the risk of pre-eclampsia now, so be sure to attend all antenatal appointments.
Your boom: Fat deposits under the skin hides the blood vessels that are visible now. Loose skin on his face filled, so no more wrinkles! Her nails are at the end of your fingers and grow so that they have cut soon after birth.
Top Tip: As your baby bones continue to draw, make sure gets a lot of calcium.
Week 35-38
You: Do you have written your birth plan? If not, do so now! But remember, things often do not go to plan, so although it is great to Will type of birth you want, do not be too disappointed if it does not happen the way you want it.
Your bump: Your baby will start moving around now pelvis and is almost ready to go. She gets a good supply of antibodies from you through the placenta, and most of lanugo has disappeared. But the hair of his head can be up to 5 cm long.
Top Tip: Pack your hospital bag. Include toiletries, diapers, clothes for you and baby, maternity and breast pads and nursing bra. Even if you plan to be born at home, this is a good idea to have these things prepared in case you need to transfer.
Week 39-42
You: On your marks ... is determined ... procreate! Many babies are overdue by two weeks. However, I will go to work every day now. Signs to look out for are "Show" (a bloody, gel-like substance in knickers), water breaking or contractions that increase in strength and frequency.
Your boom: Position your baby lying at the moment is important because it will probably remain so right up to birth because the space is too spiffy for somersaulting! If she is born, may be advised to consider a Caesarian operation.
Top Tip: Try to relax and rest as possible in the days leading up to birth - you'll need power!
Banana snack industry goes stale
Not so long ago, the Central Java town of Majenang was famous for being the home of sale pisang, a unique snack made with bananas, but recently the market changed and the local snack industry faded to a fraction of its former success.
Majenang, one of 23 districts in Cilacap regency in the far west of the province - bordering with Banjar and Ciamis regencies in West Java - has about 30 small factories producing the snack.
Before the 1998 economic crisis, there were around 100 such producers, leading Cilacap administration to come up with the idea of making the snack the icon of Majenang.
But with the crisis, the plan hit snags and many cottage industries were forced out of business. More than a decade later, the situation has yet to improve.
"Before the crisis I could sell 2 or 3 tons of fried banana sweets to Jakarta. But things are difficult now," Yayat, a 61-year-old sale pisang business owner, told The Jakarta Post in Majenang.
Today, Yayat produces only about 200 kilograms of sale pisang a month, and 99 percent of this is sold in Majenang. The snacks are sold in 250-gram packages, each costing around Rp 25,000 (US$2).
Another snack producer, Juremi, said that before the crisis she could send 2 tons of sale pisang to Jakarta, Bandung and Surabaya each month.
"Now we only sell sale pisang for the local market," the 60-year-old said.
Juremi said most of the snack producers were struggling to survive.
"What's important is that business survives. If there are buyers in the city, that's enough. Sometimes we get an order from outside the city, but this is unreliable," she said.
"Once, a distributor from outside the city wanted to place an order, but the price he offered was too low to cover our production costs. Rather than suffering losses, we preferred not to take it."
Making sale pisang does not take long. Ripe bananas are cut into slices and dried in the sun.
"If the sun is bright, the bananas will dry out in two days. But in a rainy season like this, it takes about four days," Juremi said.
The dried bananas are then smeared with flour and deep-fried. After being drained, the banana chips are ready to be packaged and sold.
The sale pisang business has supported many, including farmers and traders who sell raw bananas to cottage industries in Majenang, as well as banana snack makers such as Juremi and Yayat, and the vendors.
Majenang district head, Heru Susedyo, said he was aware of the stagnant business situation.
"Sale pisang was once so popular that the Cilacap administration planned to make it the icon of Majenang city, but the plan could not be realized because sales keep decreasing."
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/03/06/
Thursday 1 January 2009
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