What’s Happening With Mom?
Even this soon, you might notice early pregnancy signs such as cramping, tiredness, sore or tender breasts, headaches, food cravings, or mood swings. These are all due to changing hormone levels. It’s also normal not to have any symptoms for another few weeks.
The cause of just about every aspect of pregnancy is hormones. Flash forwards to some questions you may have while pregnant: Why do I have morning sickness? Hormones. Why am I having a hot flush? Hormones. Why is my baby tirelessly kicking me in the bladder? Because you are pregnant, and that was due to hormones making you want to stay in on Saturday night with your man in the first place. See week 3.
Even though you are pregnant, you won’t be able to get a positive result on a pregnancy test yet. You’ll have to wait until first day of the next cycle, when your period would start if you were not pregnant.
Why do you have to wait to miss a period to take a pregnancy test? Home pregnancy tests measure a hormone released when the blastocyst (the medical name for your baby at this stage) implants in the uterus lining, which will happen sometime around the end of this week. The exact date can vary, so it’s even possible to test at the end of this week, but still get a negative result.
What’s Happening With Baby?
The cells in the fertilized egg are busy dividing. This week, baby looks like a tiny ball of cells, smaller than the period at the end of this sentence, but the cells are busy organizing themselves to form all the parts of your baby.
Sometime in this week the blastocyst reaches the uterus, lands on the uterus wall, and begins to implant firmly into the endometrium, the uterus lining. Now your baby is called an embryo.
Implantation often causes a little bleeding or spotting, called implantation bleeding, and some women think that this is their period.
The placenta starts to form, and begins producing ever increasing amounts of progesterone and estrogen hormones. These hormones cause all kinds of changes in just about every part of your body, helping you to nurture your baby.
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