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Understand development from conception to birth and routine screening programmes in the first year of life
Table of Contents
Click on the icon to the left to open an activity sheet containing tasks for you to read and complete.If you have any questions you should contact your tutor / assessor who will be able to offer guidance.
Table of Contents
Tutorial Video
Reading Materials
'Fetal development week by week’ webpage from the Baby Centre website
'Your antenatal care’ on the NHS website
'Screening tests for you and your baby’ from the NHS
Laser reading text: ‘Health before and during prgnancy’.
Presentation
Good Practice Example
Videos are widely available to show the developing child and show various stages in life from conception to birth. Watch some of those that can be accessed through this link.
Click to watch this video from the developing baby in the pregnancy videos on the Baby Center website ‘Inside pregnancy: Girl or boy’.
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Extended Learning
Click on the icons below to watch a series of videos from the Baby Center website, breaking down development by week.
Development from 1 to 9 weeks.
Development from 10 to 14 weeks.
Development from 15 to 20 weeks.
Development from 21 to 27 weeks.
Development from 28 to 37 weeks.
Click to read ‘Foetal alcohol syndrome’ on the NHS website.
This article from the NHS is about ‘Have a healthy diet in pregnancy’.
This article from the Inner Body website is on ‘Fertilisation and pregnancy’. Click on the link to read the articles and look at the diagrams about fertilisation.
Click on the link to the website of Diabetes UK to find out more information of diabetes in pregnancy, known as gestational diabetes.
Click to reopen ‘Screening tests for you and your baby’ from the NHS that was in the Reading section of this lesson and read the ‘Screening tests during your pregnancy’ section. This covers screening tests in pregnancy for sickle cell disease and thalassaemia, Down’s syndrome, Edwards’ syndrome, Patau’s syndrome and the 20-week scan.
Think And Challenge
