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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…
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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…