Pregnancy week by week

You

You start feeling energetic and your pregnancy becomes more visible when your stomach is growing. Your body starts making preparations for breastfeeding – the veins on your thorax and breasts are expanding and your nipples become darker and wider.

Your baby

Your baby is about 9 cm long and weighs about 42 g. By the end of week 14 the hands of the fetus have become proportional compared to the body, the legs are stretching even more. The neck of the child is becoming longer and the chin is no longer resting on the breast. Its skin is thin, reddish and wrinkly, covered with sebiparous fetal ointment and little hairs. Hair is growing on head. The growing child is moving actively hands, legs and head, squints closed eyes, wrinkles eyebrows and makes other grimaces. It can also grasp and, when its thumb appears to be near the mouth, it can suck it. It still pees into the amniotic fluid – this is a normal process continuing up to the birth.

What does Dr. Marek Šois recommend?

The increased blood volume and hormonal changes cause constipation by many pregnant. If you have this trouble, eat high-fibre food and drink more. If your family or your partner’s family has encountered chromosomal diseases or malformations, surely notify your doctor of it.