Pregnancy
Exercise and Pregnancy: Please Don’t Judge Me!
What kind of exercise is safe during pregnancy?
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Week 12
Your Baby: Is about two-and-a-half inches long. So still in the lemon/lime range. Comparison reruns! Sorry about that. Already has pretty much every structure, organ and system needed for life by this point. Everything will continue to develop and mature, but your baby really is…
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Week 11
Your Baby: Is the size of a small lemon or large lime. With a twist! Yeah, we’re done with the bean and nut comparisons and have moved onto fruit. Next stop, small household appliances! Is officially a fetus, and is downright human-baby looking with non-webbed…
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Week 10
Your Baby Will officially be considered a fetus by the end of this week. Is over an inch long, maybe by as much as 3/4 of ANOTHER WHOLE INCH. That’s almost TWO INCHES. That’s about the size of a…hmm…*glances frantically around room*…okay, it’s slightly bigger…
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Week 8
Your baby: Is about the size of a gummy bear or kidney bean, and dear LORD I promise to be done with the bean comparisons soon, because it is all entirely too precious. Is extremely jointy, with fingers and toes and elbows and knees that…
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Week 7
Your baby: Still with the growing. Always with the growing. Your baby starts off this week at four or five millimeters long, but is a whopping half an inch by the end. Has a two-chambered heart, air passages in the lungs, and cerebral hemispheres in…
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Week 6
Your baby: Has tripled or even quadrupled in size and is now three or four entire millimeters long! Godzilla baby! Is working on growing a nose, some ears and a mouth. Is also growing flappy little leg and arm buds. Has a heartbeat that…
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Week 5
Congratulations, you’re pregnant! So, it’s time to stop smoking, drinking, doing drugs and licking inner-city mailboxes, if you’re into that sort of thing.
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Week 4
Your baby is: Implanted snugly in the rich lining of your delicious uterus. Still less than a millimeter long. Seriously, a MILLIMETER. Go pull out a ruler and wrap your mind around that. I will wait. Okay, that little millimeter is growing three different cell…
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Week 3
Your baby is: A rogue band of cells, a’huntin’ and a’feudin’ and rapidly dividin’ while traveling the wilds of your fallopian tube, headed towards the uterine promised land. About the size of the head of a pin. Possibly already the cutest thing you’ve ever seen….
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Week 2
(Weeks 1 & 2 are the same. But from here on, all the other weeks are distinct. Pinky promise.) Your baby is: A hope, a wish, a gleam in your eye. Also does not actually technically exist yet. You are: Taking prenatal vitamins just in…
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Week 1
Your baby is: A hope, a wish, a gleam in your eye. Also does not actually technically exist yet. You are: Taking prenatal vitamins just in case. Drinking all the wine in the house so it won’t go to waste. Completely unaware that this is…
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Pregnancy: First Trimester Breakouts
Pregnancy can be rough on your body — and your skin. These simple tips will help you manage first-trimester breakouts and acne safely and easily.