When you are 5 weeks pregnant, your embryo is a very small tiny creature. The root for your baby’s brain, nerves, backbone and spinal cord, which is the neural tube, is on its first stages of development. The formation of the heart and the circulatory system will also start in this week .Also the heart will continue on its development and will start to be divided into its different chambers. Then it will start its beating and blood pumping.

As you are 5 weeks pregnant, you may be noticing or suffering some uneasiness resulting from your pregnancy. Frequent urination and general fatigue may be some of your pregnancy symptoms. Other than that, no one can tell that you are 5 weeks pregnant. At this stage, you should start to check the different activities you are involved at, whether at work or at your leisure time since some activities might not be safe enough for you and for your developing baby. You should also change some of the bad habits that you may have. Smoking, alcohol, or drugs is not something that your baby need nor do you. You should also stay away from smoking areas. Healthy food should be something to start with. Try to keep a healthy menu for your meals. Actually, watching what you eat can speed up your weight loss after giving birth. Don’t listen to the myth of eating for two, just eat what is healthy in appropriate quantities that are enough for your nourishment. And always make sure that you have your prenatal vitamins. And consult your doctor about any medications that you regularly consume.

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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