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18 Weeks Pregnant: The Week You Might Feel Her for the First Time
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp You are going about your ordinary day, sitting still for a moment, or lying down in the quiet of the evening, when something happens that has no explanation from the outside. A flutter. A tiny pressure from somewhere internal that has no external cause. Something that stops you mid-thought and makes you…
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17 Weeks Pregnant: Your Growing Baby, Your Changing Body, and the Quiet Middle
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp There is no major milestone this week. No scan, no screening threshold, no specific developmental marker that everyone will ask you about. Week seventeen is simply the middle of the second trimester doing what the middle of the second trimester does: quietly, reliably, impressively. This is actually one of the better things…
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16 Weeks Pregnant: The Bump, the First Kicks, and Finding Your Rhythm
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Something is different this week. Not dramatically, not overnight but if you pay attention, you will notice it. The nausea that has been your companion since week six has either gone completely or reduced to something manageable. The exhaustion that made the first trimester feel like moving through water has lifted enough…
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15 Weeks Pregnant: Your Bump, Baby’s First Movements, and the Anatomy Scan Approaching
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Something is changing this week that is different from everything that came before it. The first trimester was largely internal, a private experience of symptoms that were invisible to everyone around you, a pregnancy that existed on a test and in a scan photograph and in the knowledge of a small circle…
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14 Weeks Pregnant (14 SA)
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp You have probably been looking forward to this since approximately week seven, when the nausea settled in and someone, or possibly several people, told you it would all be better in the second trimester. That the energy would return. That food would become enjoyable again. That you would finally feel like a…
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12 Weeks Pregnant: The Scan, the Exhale
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp This is the week most Mauritius parents have been waiting for. Not because anything magical happens at exactly twelve weeks, the science does not work on a clean calendar, and your baby does not know they have reached a milestone, but because twelve weeks is the milestone that the first trimester has…
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My Fibroid Grew From 2cm to 13cm During Pregnancy: Here’s What I Wish I Had Known
A note before you read: This article shares my personal experience alongside general educational information based on peer-reviewed research and clinical guidelines. Uterine fibroids, placental complications and pregnancy bleeding all require individual assessment by your obstetric team. Please don’t adjust your care, activity level or treatment plan based on anything you read here, or anywhere…
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Foods to Avoid During Pregnancy in Mauritius (And What to Eat Instead)
The day you find out you are pregnant, your relationship with food changes overnight. The dholl puri you have eaten from the same vendor since you were a teenager suddenly raises a question. The fish your mother-in-law is preparing for Sunday lunch, is it the right kind? The bowl of gato pima you grabbed without…
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11 Weeks Pregnant: The NT Scan Week and Almost the End
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp You are nearly there. Eleven weeks is close enough to thirteen that you can see the end of the first trimester from here, the milestone that has probably been sitting in the back of your mind since the day you found out, the point at which most women finally feel ready to…
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10 Weeks Pregnant: The Last Week of the Embryonic Period
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Something happens this week that most pregnancy content mentions only in passing, if at all, and that deserves more than a footnote. At the end of week ten, your baby stops being an embryo. From fertilisation through these first ten weeks, she has been technically classified as an embryo, a period defined…