Pregnancy week 25

Your baby at week 25

Baby responds to familiar voices. Hair begins to show colour and texture.

Your body at week 25

The bump grows visibly. Backache, leg cramps or mild swelling may appear. Baby's kicks become part of the day.

Garbh Sanskar practice for week 25

Baby can hear now — read stories aloud, hum, or chant softly. Invite your partner to speak to the bump.

This week's stories

• Day 169: Sudama's Handful of Rice

  Babies grow inside a body that has been generous from the very first day. This story reminds the mother that the smallest offerings — a breath, a hum, a hand on the belly — are received as treasure.

• Day 170: The Monkey King's Bridge

  A mother's body is already a bridge — between two worlds, between yesterday and tomorrow, between the unborn child and the breathing one. This story honours that quiet, magnificent giving.

• Day 171: Tukaram and the Sparrows

  Pregnancy invites a mother to feed many things at once — her body, her baby, her household, her own quiet self. This story softens the fear of 'there will not be enough' and replaces it with a quiet trust.

• Day 172: The Spring That Listened

  A mother's body knows the secret of giving water. Her own blood is the river that carries everything her child needs. This story honours that quiet, generous flow.

• Day 173: Rabia Looks for the Needle

  Pregnancy turns the eye inward. So much of what a mother needs is not 'out there' to be searched for. It is already inside, where her own light is gently growing.

• Day 174: The Sandals on the Throne

  A mother holds a space inside her body for someone who has not yet arrived. Bharata's quiet keeping-of-the-seat is the same noble waiting — full of love, full of trust, full of unseen work.

• Day 175: What Yashoda Saw in His Mouth

  Pregnancy is full of small, ordinary moments — and inside each one, if a mother pauses, lives the whole universe. This story honours that secret: the largest things hide inside the smallest faces.