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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 21: Your baby can hear

From this week, your baby can hear! They of course don’t hear things in the same way as we do, but from now, they can hear daily sounds much better and baby starts getting used to these sounds. Your baby listens to the beating of your heart, the sound of your blood flowing, the grumbling of your bowels and all the other sounds your body makes.
As baby will be hearing these sounds for the next twenty weeks, they are also comforting sounds after birth. After your baby is born, they will enjoy these sounds when you carry them around in a baby sling. And baby will also recognize your voice and that of your partner and any siblings!
Don’t overwhelm your baby by going to a concert with loud music and vibrations that will penetrate your belly. You are best avoiding such loud noise from now. Your baby now weighs 12.70 ounces and measures about 10.5 inches!
To do!
Talk to your baby! It may feel a little strange to start with, but talking to your baby encourages the bond between you both. Baby gets familiar with your voice and it is comforting.
Rest
Your midwife or doctor will tell you, just like your mother will and anyone else you talk to, and you read it in every book: you have to take things easy when you are pregnant. You will undoubtedly have thought a hundred times: easily said, but not easily done in daily life, especially if you have other children running around to care for. Although you may not find it easy to follow this advice, the time has come to find a solution.
Set priorities and put things off that can wait. Getting some rest is not only important for you, but also for your baby growing inside of you.