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3 Weeks Pregnant: Fertilisation, Implantation, and the Wait
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp This is the week where you might be pregnant and have absolutely no way of knowing it yet. If you are trying to conceive, week three is its own particular kind of difficult, quieter than the disappointment of a negative test, less dramatic than the hope of a positive one, but in…
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The Best TTC Decision We Made Before Getting Pregnant: Why We Saw Our Gynaecologist Before We Even Started Trying
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp When my husband and I decided we were ready to try for a baby, our plan was about as simple and as common as plans get. Stop the contraception. See what happens. That was the entire strategy. Looking back now, I find it a little funny how unprepared we were for something…
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24 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby, Viability, and the Halfway Feeling
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp There is a word that comes up at 24 weeks that does not come up at any other point in the pregnancy with quite the same weight. Viability. Most pregnancy apps mention it matter-of-factly, almost in passing “congratulations, your baby is now considered viable” and then move on to the fruit comparison…
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Is This Labour? 12 Signs Labour Is Starting — and When to Go to the Clinic
Facebook Pinterest Threads WhatsApp You are in your third trimester, and you have been here for a while now, the weeks where every cramp, every tightening, every unusual sensation in your lower back sends a jolt of adrenaline through you before you remember to breathe and ask the question you have been asking approximately forty…
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The 12-Month Sleep Regression: Walking, Words, and Why Sleep Changed Again
Baby just turned one. There is a particular weight to that milestone, the candle, the cake baby mostly threw on the floor, the photographs, the slightly disbelieving feeling that an entire year has passed since the night you met this tiny human being. And underneath the celebration, if you are honest, there was probably also…
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36 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby, Your Body, and the Final Stretch
Four weeks. Give or take. Probably less, possibly a little more. But roughly 4 weeks, 30 days, the same amount of time that separated you from each of the big milestones of this pregnancy, except that this time what is waiting on the other side is not a scan or a test or an appointment.…
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The 8-Month Sleep Regression: Why Your Settled Baby Stopped Sleeping
This one is different from the four-month regression. At four months, you were still in the thick of new parenthood where the sleepless nights were brutal but they felt like part of the territory you had signed up for, the chaos of those early weeks when everything was still unknown. You had not yet had…
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Feeling Overwhelmed After Having a Baby — Is This Normal?
You spent months imagining this. The birth. The first cuddle. The moment they placed baby on your chest and everything you had been waiting for finally arrived. Everyone told you it would be the best moment of your life, and in some ways it was, you felt something you had no word for, something so…
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20 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby, the Anatomy Scan, and the Halfway Point
You are halfway there. Twenty weeks. Five months. The exact midpoint of a forty-week pregnancy, and one of the weeks that most mothers look back on as the one where something shifted, where the pregnancy stopped feeling like something that was happening to them and started feeling like something they were genuinely, consciously living. There…
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Newborn Sleep Schedule by Age: What to Expect From Week 1 to Month 12
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Reddit Nobody warned me about the exhaustion before the exhaustion. I knew newborns were tiring. Every person I had ever met who had a baby told me to sleep while I could, which is advice that is both accurate and completely useless to anyone who has not yet experienced what newborn sleep…