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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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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…
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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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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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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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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…