Your Pregnacy
Week 10
The roller coaster of nausea may almost be over, but the roller coaster of emotions (happy, sad, crying, mad; and that’s all in the last 30 seconds) is just revving up. No one will understand why Friends reruns are making you cry, so don’t bother trying to explain it. Wondering what’s up with your body, your baby and your life this week? Read on … What You’re Thinking: “Only 30 more weeks until I can eat raw fish and drink sake again.” Your Body The hormones raging through your body can wreak havoc on...
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If you’ve never kept a journal, do yourself a favor and start one today! Because despite the fact that your pregnancy is literally all you can think about right now, as soon as the delivery is over, you’ll barely remember what it was like being pregnant (except maybe those weeks you spent with your head in the toilet). Plus, keeping a diary will help you appreciate all that amazing work your bod is doing. If you’re going to spend nine months performing a miracle, you might as well document it. Wondering what’s up with...
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Your growing baby is now six weeks old, thanks to the fuzzy math of pregnancy. Yep, you were “pregnant” for two weeks before you even did the deed because the first day of your last period was considered day 1 of your 280 day pregnancy (wrap your brain around that one!). If only you’d known then what you know now you’d have been demanding foot rubs and ice cream from the get-go! Wondering what’s up with your body, your baby and your life this week? Read on… What You’re Thinking: “If I have to...
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If you’re one of the “lucky” pregnant women to experience morning sickness (a poorly named symptom of pregnancy as it can strike at any time of the day), remember that it won’t last forever. Most of the wooziness tapers off by the second trimester. Of course, mental wooziness can affect you throughout your pregnancy, as you think of your growing to-do list, or wonder about how you’re life will change, or worry if you’ll know how to handle it all. Luckily, the cure for that wooziness is laying your eyes on...
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While you won’t be able to find out the gender of your baby for several more weeks, the version you’ll give birth to is being determined right now. Of course, your mother-in-law already knows it’ll be a boy. And your sister is sure that it’s a girl. And the medical expert that is your 5-year-old nephew says it’s absolutely a boy (and if it’s a girl, he doesn’t want anything to do with it). Isn’t it wonderful how clairvoyant people are? Wondering what’s up with your body, your baby and your...
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Although you’ve been pregnant for four weeks now, you probably just found out. Congrats! Yippee! Woohoo! The fact that you’re actually growing a baby inside you probably seems completely surreal. Don’t worry, it’s common. Still, do your best not to overthink it. Instead, concentrate on making a nice home for the baby over the next nine months by taking care of you. That means eating right, moving your body (some call it exercise, but that sounds so strenuous) and taking it easy. Wondering what’s up with your body,...
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Is it? Could it be? Yep. At the very end of this week, which also bizarrely marks the end of your first month of pregnancy, you’ll miss your period. And the ride of your life will begin. Wondering what’s up with your body, your baby and your life this week? Read on … What You’re Thinking: “Instant messages. Instant coffee … Why the heck hasn’t anyone invented an instant pregnancy test?” Your Body This is when it all begins. Once Mini Me or He implants in your uterus and that placenta starts to...
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Congratulations! You might be three weeks pregnant!? Welcome to the bizarro world of “pregnancy math,” where 40 weeks somehow fit into just nine months, and your pregnancy begins nearly two weeks before you’ve even done The Deed! Wondering what’s up with your body, your baby and your life this week? Read on … What You’re Thinking: “I am so ready for this! Am I ready for this? Yes, yes, I’m a strong, confident, capable person! Wait, am I crazy? I cannot believe I might be somebody’s...
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Time to get down to the business of making a baby! You’re doing all the right things—and one “thing” in particular—to start that journey from “party of two and your best bottle of wine, please” to “do you serve chicken nuggets?” Get ready for a wild ride! Wondering what’s up this week with your body and that baby you’re trying to make? Read on … What You’re Thinking: “So this is what sex is like without contraception! OMG, OMG, OMG, we’re trying to make a...
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This week’s period may be the last one you have for a good long while. Enjoy it! OK, maybe not enjoy it, but at least appreciate the fact that if it weren’t for that egg-dropping, uterine-thickening, blood-shedding cycle you love to loathe every month, you wouldn’t be able to grow the baby you’re hoping to conceive! Yes, for once you can consider Aunt Flo a friend of yours. What You’re Thinking: “Goodbye menstrual cramps, period panties and chocolate cravings! Hello pregnancy cramps, preggy panties and even...
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