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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 17: You can do sport, but avoid stomach exercises

The outside of baby’s body is growing like a weed but inside everything is growing and developing at a rapid rate, too. In baby’s stomach and torso, many organs work already. The liver functions, as do the kidneys and gall bladder. The heart is pumping blood; it’s quite a job, as it pumps about 30 liters per day! Until recently, your baby only moved occasionally. That calm period is now over. Your baby is moving all the time. Baby also has plenty of room to do that, even if they are getting quite big. Your baby is now 5.12 inches and weighs 4.94 ounces.
To do!
- You may have been thinking about a name for your baby for a while, perhaps not at all. You still have weeks, but start giving it some thought.
- Discuss with your partner whether you want to know your baby’s gender. You can get a non-medical ultrasound from this week to find out. You could also wait until the 20-week ultrasound and ask the ultrasound technician.
Stomach exercises make way for flossing
‘Gain a child, lose a tooth’, is the old saying. Fortunately, we know that this is not necessarily the case. But there is a grain of truth in every saying, so also with this one. Because your body is under the influence of the hormone progesterone your gums become less firm, softer and more vulnerable. Your jaw also becomes more pliable. It means that you are more vulnerable to mouth infections, for instance.
You can prevent most problems by giving additional time and attention to your oral hygiene. You have that extra time as you are no longer doing stomach exercises … well, if you did any to start with. From now on you should avoid doing any stomach exercises. You can of course still do sport. But be sensible and take care of your pregnant body.