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30 Weeks Pregnant: Ten Weeks to Go and Your Baby Is Getting Heavy | Nutura Mauritius
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Ten weeks. That number lands differently at 30 weeks than it would have at 20. At 20 weeks, ten weeks felt like a long way. At 30, ten weeks is close enough to feel. Close enough that the conversations you have been half-having in your head about the birth, the hospital bag,…
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29 Weeks Pregnant: Welcome to the Third Trimester | Nutura Mauritius
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp The third trimester starts this week. You have been building toward this for 28 weeks. The first trimester with its private nausea and exhaustion and the held breath of the early weeks. The second trimester with its returning energy, its visible bump, its anatomy scan and first unmistakable kicks and the gradual…
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28 Weeks Pregnant: The Last Week of the Second Trimester
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp This is the last week of the second trimester. Next week the third begins, and with it a different quality of pregnancy altogether. The final stretch. The countdown that has felt like an abstraction through all the weeks of the first and second trimesters becomes, from next week, something with a specific…
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27 Weeks Pregnant: The Last Weeks of the Second Trimester | Nutura Mauritius
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp The second trimester that started at week fourteen with the gradual lifting of first-trimester nausea is ending. The relative comfort of these middle weeks, the energy that returned, the anatomy scan, the first clear kicks, the bump that became visible and then undeniable, the developing familiarity with the particular rhythms of your…
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26 Weeks Pregnant: Baby Is the Size of a Cauliflower
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp You are almost at the third trimester. Not there yet, that threshold is week 28, still two weeks away but close enough that this week has a particular quality of almost. The second trimester that felt like it stretched indefinitely when you were in the first half of it is now almost…
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25 Weeks Pregnant: Strong Kicks, the GD Test, and the Third Trimester
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp Something has shifted in the quality of the movement. It is not the flutter of weeks sixteen and seventeen, not the uncertain sensation that you second-guessed in the quieter moments of the second trimester. The kicks at 25 weeks are something different. They are definite. They are sometimes strong enough to be…
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23 Weeks Pregnant: The Kicks Are Real and the Third Trimester Is Closer Than It Feels | Nutura
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp The middle of the pregnancy has a particular quality that is difficult to describe to anyone who has not been inside it. There is no scan this week. No significant threshold. No appointment on the horizon that is counting down days. Just the pregnancy, doing what the pregnancy does, in the weeks…
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22 Weeks Pregnant: Real Kicks, Real Bump, and the Sweet Spot of Pregnancy
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp If there is a week in the entire pregnancy that earns the description of sweet spot, it is somewhere around here. The first trimester is behind you. The anatomy scan is done. The third trimester has not yet arrived with its particular physical demands. You are past the halfway point, your bump…
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21 Weeks Pregnant: After the Scan, the Kicks, and the Second Half Beginning
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp You are on the other side of the anatomy scan. If it went the way most anatomy scans go, you are carrying something in your chest that is difficult to name precisely. Not just relief, though there is relief. Something larger than that. The photographs in your phone. The particular image of…
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19 Weeks Pregnant: One Week Before the Anatomy Scan
Facebook Pinterest WhatsApp If your anatomy scan is scheduled for next week, there is a very specific quality to this particular seven days. You are not anxious exactly, or not only anxious. It is something more complicated than that. Anticipation of the kind that sits in your chest and makes it slightly difficult to concentrate…