What’s Happening With Mom?
What’s your life like now? Do your basic needs include going out on Saturday night, sleeping in on the weekends, having a shower in peace, having time to choose what you’ll wear, browsing the stores at the mall, going to movies, and putting on makeup? Once you become a mom to a newborn baby, all those things become luxuries.
Saturday night excitement is likely to become falling asleep in front of the TV. Babies never sleep in, and you’ll be choosing clothes based on what you can nurse in and doesn’t show milk/spit up/poop stains too badly. Your baby is worth the way they’ll warp your life into unrecognizable sleeplessness and servitude a million times over, but do appreciate all those simple things while you can.
This week, your heart rate increases to pump more blood to your uterus and growing baby. As well as delivering vital nutrients and oxygen to your baby, it can make you feel very energetic, or more likely, very tired. You are likely to feel physical symptoms like dizziness, headaches and insomnia too. Rest when you can because sleep during pregnancy is important. If you need to take something for that headache, consult your doctor before you take any medicine, even over-the-counter ones.
One of the curious things about pregnancy is how completely differently it affects each mom-to-be. Growing a baby may make you feel exhausted, or full of energy, or give you trouble sleeping.
Similarly, your sex drive may increase, or vanish, or you might want intimacy with your partner but feel insecure about your changing body. When your breasts are sore, you are in the swing of morning sickness, and too tender/nauseous/exhausted/hormonal, you might not want your man anywhere near you.
And the way you feel will probably change throughout your pregnancy. Talk to your partner about how you are feeling, and how he is feeling. Men often don’t realize that pregnancy is full of emotional changes as well as physical ones, and are affected by your changing body too. So keep talking to each other, and explore other ways of being intimate with each other as well as sex.
What’s Happening With Baby?
Your baby is starting to look less alien and more human. Until now, your baby had a tail, but this week the tail begins to shrink away. The antenna are gone too. OK, kidding about those. The framework of baby’s internal organs is complete this week, with baby’s internal reproductive organs and digestive system forming.
More detail is developing in baby’s hands, fingers and toes, and by now your baby can probably move, But you won’t be able to feel any wiggling and booty shaking yet – baby is just 1 inch long and weighs 1/8 ounce.
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