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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 20: Can you feel your baby?

Your now 6.46 inches long baby has real nails at this point. Although, they are not quite the same as ours nails yet. They are much softer and comparable to thin membranes. They will remain so for the first weeks after birth. That is why you are told not to cut a baby’s nails in that period.
To do!
You will probably have the 20-week ultrasound this week. This is a medical ultrasound, not just for fun. It looks at how your baby is growing, the placenta, and whether there are any abnormalities such as a cleft lip, clubfoot or open back (Spina Bifida). It is also possible to see your baby’s gender during this ultrasound. Say in advance whether you want to know the gender.
Can you feel your baby?
No one can predict the exact day you will feel your baby for the first time. Some will have felt their baby a few weeks ago (often those who have been pregnant before) and others will still have to be patient. But this week is when many women say they feel their baby for the first time. And what a milestone! You may feel a little uncomfortable when you feel your baby because you don’t actually feel their limbs but only the effects of their movements.
Your baby still has so much room that it doesn’t touch the womb or the abdominal wall. When baby moves, a lot of amniotic fluid shifts around, and that’s what you can feel. In the beginning it feels a bit like a rumbling tummy. Many women describe it as a butterfly flapping around in their belly. What is Amniotic Fluid made of?
Your belly has grown considerably by now. Your belly button may have ‘popped out’, so you have a bump instead of a belly button. Don’t worry, it will go back to normal after the delivery.