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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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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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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…
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13 Weeks Pregnant: The End of the First Trimester
Take a breath. You have been pregnant for three months. Twelve weeks of nausea and exhaustion and anxiety and a hundred small fears you could not say out loud to most of the people around you. Twelve weeks of keeping a secret that changed the entire texture of your daily life. Twelve weeks of first…
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4 Weeks Pregnant: What Is Happening and What to Do Next
You are staring at the test. Maybe you have stared at it for five minutes, picked it up and put it down three times, held it under the light to check that you are reading it correctly. Maybe you took a second one just to be sure. Maybe you are sitting on the bathroom floor.…
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Preparing for Labour in Mauritius: What to Expect and How to Feel Ready
There is a specific kind of fear that arrives in the third trimester. It is not constant, and it is not always loud. It lives somewhere in the background of ordinary days while you are at work, while you are trying to sleep, while you are watching someone else’s birth story on YouTube at midnight…