Week by week

Forty weeks, drawn at true size.

A flower for every week, and the real measurement printed beside it — so the comparison never has to be taken on trust.

Most week-by-week guides compare a growing baby to a piece of fruit and leave it there. Zohra draws a botanical instead, and always states the actual length in centimetres and inches next to it. The lengths come from a clinical fetal-development reference table; what is happening each week comes from the NHS. Both are linked at the bottom of every page.

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By trimester

First trimester

Weeks 1–13

From before conception to the end of the third month — the quietest, least visible, and often hardest stretch to hold on to.

Read the first trimester →

Second trimester

Weeks 14–27

The middle months, when the pregnancy usually starts to feel like something you can picture rather than only something you are told.

Read the second trimester →

Third trimester

Weeks 28–40

The last stretch — bigger, slower, closer, and the part people most often say they wish they had written down.

Read the third trimester →

Every week

Weeks one to three are dated from before conception, so they make no size claim — they are garden, not comparison. Week four is the implantation week, where the clinical table’s own words are “approximately the size of a pinhead” and no length is printed at all.