Your pregnancy: 10 weeks
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What’s going on in there: Fetal development at 10 weeks pregnant
Your baby is the size of a strawberry this week! Her bones and cartilage are now forming, and she is able to kick her tiny legs?though you won?t be able to feel it yet. At ten weeks pregnant, her organs are fully formed and beginning to function, too. She?s practising her swallowing, and her fingernails and hair are starting to grow.
At your next prenatal visit, you?ll probably be able to hear your baby?s heartbeat with the use of a handheld Doppler device?you might want to bring your partner to this one. (However, if the technician or midwife can?t find a heartbeat, don?t freak out: Sometimes the baby is uncooperative or hanging out in a hard-to-locate position or the placenta is in the way. An ultrasound is a much more reliable method for hearing that rapid swoosh-swoosh-swoosh sound.) 10 weeks pregnant symptoms
Vivid dreams
If you?re bolting upright in bed because you?re sure that a huge bear was chasing you (or something much, much weirder), relax! It?s a common experience during pregnancy. Dreams commonly occur during REM sleep and, because you?re more likely to be waking up through the night (thanks to heartburn, restless legs syndrome and that pesky bladder), you?re more likely to experience REM sleep and remember your dreams. Add the anxiety and emotions that come with finding out that you?re having a baby and it makes se...
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