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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…
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9 Weeks Pregnant: Fingers, Toes, and the Week You Are Just Surviving
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp If you are reading this on your phone from the bathroom at work because the smell of someone’s lunch has sent you in here, or from your bed at two in the afternoon because the fatigue hit like a wall, or from wherever you happen to be that is not where you…
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Early Pregnancy Symptoms: What Is Normal, What Helps, and When to Call Your Doctor
Nobody tells you how strange the first few weeks of pregnancy actually feel. Not because it is unspeakable, but because it is so specific, the particular combination of symptoms, the particular quality of the exhaustion, the particular way your body becomes unfamiliar to you overnight, that it is genuinely difficult to prepare for in advance.…
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Managing a Difficult Pregnancy: Hyperemesis, Bed Rest, and Finding Support
A note before you read: This article shares my personal experience alongside general educational information. Hyperemesis gravidarum, uterine fibroids, placental complications and pregnancy bleeding all require individual medical assessment. Please don’t adjust your activity level, delay prescribed treatment, or change your care plan based on anything you read here or anywhere online. Your pregnancy is…
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8 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby, Your Body, and Surviving the Worst Week
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp If there is a week in the first trimester that most women would vote off the island, it is week eight. Not because anything is going wrong. Everything is going right, actually — which is the particular cruelty of the eight-week experience. Your baby is developing at a pace that is genuinely…
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7 Weeks Pregnant: When the Symptoms Peak
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp You were probably hoping it would have eased off by now. Seven weeks in, and instead of things settling, the nausea has often gotten worse, not better. The exhaustion that hit at five and six weeks has not lifted — if anything, it has deepened. Foods you loved a month ago have…
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6 Weeks Pregnant: The Heartbeat Week
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp If you have your first scan this week, or if your gynaecologist mentioned hearing for a heartbeat at your appointment, there is something worth saying before anything else: this is often the week pregnancy stops feeling like a concept and starts feeling like a person. The positive test told you something was…
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5 Weeks Pregnant: Your Baby, Your Symptoms, and What to Do Now
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp For a lot of women, this is the week it actually sinks in. Week 4 was the shock of the positive test, the staring, the disbelief, the retesting just to be sure. Week 5 is often where something shifts. The missed period has now been missed for long enough that there is…