Getting pregnant is a wish for many women, some try hard to get pregnant while others get pregnant without even knowing it. No matter to which case you belong, you are probably anxious to know everything about it and to know (more…)

During pregnancy, a lot of changes take place to your baby and your body. The changes and processes are gradual and make take a long time to physically manifest themselves so you have to be very patient. Most of the subtle changes become more noticeable to you when you are 5 weeks pregnant. Even the crucial “life forming” changes in your baby happen during this week.

Changes in Your Body

The early pregnancy symptoms like morning sickness or nausea, frequent urination, spotting, sore breasts and fatigue can usually start to happen during this time. Although there are also some people who might not notice these changes because they mistakenly relate it to pre-menstrual symptoms.

At 5 weeks pregnant, you won’t actually notice a change in the size of your belly, but then again some women who have experienced being pregnant before claim that they notice that their lower abdomens seem bigger, much like feeling bloated.

Some doctors say that it is actually advisable to drink pre-natal vitamins at this stage, or even before this, to ensure the well-being of your baby. Because this is also a crucial stage in your baby, it is important that you are of a healthy condition to support this new life growing inside of you,

Changes in Your Baby

This week is also very crucial for your baby because this is the time when organs like the kidneys, liver and heart start forming. The heart starts to take shape and it also begins to separate into the four chambers. By the end of this week a small amount of blood will be pumping inside your baby’s body because by then blood vessels would have also been formed. This is also when the nervous system develops an important segment, the neural tube. This tube connects the baby’s spinal cord with the lower part of the brain and allows him to use his mental faculties more.

Although there are many changes that are occurring to your baby, his size would be pretty much the same as the week before. He is about 1/17 inches, or he can simply be compared to the size of a small grain.

At 5 weeks pregnant you might not feel that your baby is changing because it really hasn’t grown much. The fact that there are processes occurring in him, even if they are not visible, is the only assurance you can get that he is a healthy child.

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