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Pregnancy Week 1: Not really pregnant yet
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Pregnancy Week 2: The egg is fertilized!
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Pregnancy Week 3: Your body produces the hormone HCG
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Pregnancy Week 4: Time to take the test
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Pregnancy Week 5: Pregnancy ailments: nausea and tiredness
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Pregnancy Week 6: Your baby’s heart is beating!
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Pregnancy Week 7: Your womb makes room for baby
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Pregnancy Week 8: Frequent surprise visits from the Sandman
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Pregnancy Week 9: Your breasts prepare for breastfeeding
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Pregnancy Week 10: Take supplements for pregnant women
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Pregnancy Week 11: You can feel your womb
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Pregnancy Week 12: You can hear the heart beating
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Pregnancy Week 13: Your body is used to being pregnant
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Pregnancy Week 14: The fingers and toes take shape
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Pregnancy Week 15: Your baby bump is now a fetus
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Pregnancy Week 16: HCG makes way for the hormone progesterone
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Pregnancy Week 17: You can do sport, but avoid stomach exercises
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Pregnancy Week 18: Belly, bottom, breasts: your body is becoming rounder
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Pregnancy Week 19: Have heartburn? Eat healthy snacks
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Pregnancy Week 20: Can you feel your baby?
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Pregnancy Week 21: Your baby can hear
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Pregnancy Week 22: No need to eat for two
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Pregnancy Week 23: Your baby is as long as a ruler!
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Pregnancy Week 24: Avoid stress and get plenty of rest
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Pregnancy Week 25: Your baby has a different sleeping and waking rhythm
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Pregnancy Week 26: Round ligament pain - watch your posture
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Pregnancy Week 27: Your belly baby is aware of sounds
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Pregnancy Week 28: More frequent visits to the midwife
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Pregnancy Week 29: Starting to nest
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Pregnancy Week 30: Lower back and pelvic discomfort
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Pregnancy Week 31: You are sensitive and emotional
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Pregnancy Week 32: Your dreams are intense
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Pregnancy Week 33: Are you nesting?
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Pregnancy Week 34: Maternity leave
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Pregnancy Week 35: Has your baby's head engaged?
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Pregnancy Week 36: Discharge or amniotic fluid?
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Pregnancy Week 37-41: Your baby can be born…!
Pregnancy Week 16: HCG makes way for the hormone progesterone

Your baby is and continues to be busy with the biggest growth spurt of their life. Baby is now 4.57 inches long and weighs 3.53 ounces. Baby’s whole body no longer fits entirely on the image of an ultrasound! Another milestone … time is flying by. Enjoy it!
HCG makes way for progesterone
Until now your body has been under the influence of hCG. That hormone was responsible for the known and typical pregnancy ailments. From this week, the hormone progesterone takes over from hCG. Unfortunately, that doesn’t mean you won’t have any more pregnancy ailments. The common ailments make way for a ‘soft body and weak mind’. Progesterone namely softens and weakens, you literally and figuratively become a softer person. But this process is so gradual you won’t feel any discomfort.
From now on, you are back to being ‘on top of the world’. You will also notice that you don’t need to use the toilet as often. That is because your womb is now above the pelvic bone and your bladder has more room. You can feel your womb easily now. Lay down flat on your back with your legs pulled up and feel your stomach. That ‘ball’ you feel is your womb. It’s quite natural that your womb feels like a hard yet flexible ball, after all it has become ten times heavier since fertilization.
Whereas baby initially weighed 3.5 ounces, your belly bump is now 2.2 pounds! Some women’s stools are also harder than before because of the hormone progesterone. As it makes your body softer and weaker, stools can accumulates making them harder. By eating properly and keeping in mind that your intestines are now weaker, you can avoid ailments such as hemorrhoids.