Your baby has officially graduated this week from embryo to fetus, and with that change are a whole bunch of others happening in his development.
If ...
The basic building blocks of your baby’s body are almost in place.
This week will mark the end of your baby’s embryonic stage. This means that the basic buildi...
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The first trimester of pregnancy is marked by an invisible, yet amazing transformation. Your body is going through enormous changes as it accommodates a gr...
Having a baby and feeling a new life developing inside your womb is a wonderful journey full of emotions, changes, enrichment and challenges.
During this perio...
Microdeletions are a group of clinically recognisable genetic disorders characterised by a small deletion of a chromosomal segment spanning multiple disease gen...
Recent technological advances are enabling the development of new screening tests that make medical procedures less invasive and more affordable.
Indeed, new m...
Down syndrome is a genetic disorder that encompasses a set of cognitive and physical symptoms caused by the presence of an additional copy of chromosome 21 and ...
The UK National Screening Committee advises pregnant women to attend a non-invasive screening test (NIPT) to detect the presence of Down Syndrome, and pleads fo...
