![]() ![]() American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Morning Sickness: Nausea and Vomiting of Pregnancy, May 2020.American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Exercise During Pregnancy, July 2019.American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Skin Conditions During Pregnancy, June 2020.Mayo Clinic, Pregnancy Weight Gain: What’s Healthy? January 2020.American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, Weight Gain During Pregnancy, 2020.Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Weight Gain During Pregnancy, May 2021.American Dental Association, Chewing Gum, July 2019.KidsHealth From Nemours, How Can I Deal with Heartburn During Pregnancy? August 2019.National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, How Milk Gets From Breast to Baby, 2009.Johns Hopkins Medicine, Normal Breast Development and Changes, 2021.Society for Endocrinology, Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin, March 2018.National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine, Fetal Development, June 2021., Exercises to Avoid During Pregnancy, December 2019., Food Cravings and Aversions During Pregnancy, April 2021., How Much Weight Should You Gain During Pregnancy, October 2020., Cramping During Pregnancy: Normal or Something More?, November 2020., Melasma (Mask of Pregnancy), April 2021.What to Expect When You're Expecting, 5th edition, Heidi Murkoff.Keep your meals bland and boring, find substitutes for foods you have an aversion to - think quinoa for protein if you can't stand the sight or smell of meat - and rejoice if your aversions are to foods that you're supposed to be avoiding anyway. ![]() The best advice: Cater to your new tastes, by all means. Pregnancy food aversions are not only very common, they are also quite confusing, especially when your once-favorite food suddenly leaves you cold - and feeling nauseous. ![]() If one look at a chicken breast is sending you flying out the door these days - or if the smell of Swiss cheese is making your digestive tract yodel with anguish - you're in good company. These bumps, called Montgomery's tubercles, are sebaceous glands that supply lubrication to the areola.Īnd in case you're wondering why all these changes are taking place, here's your answer: They're all essential to the important task of breastfeeding your newborn in about 33 weeks! Coping with food aversions You'll also notice little goose-bump-like spots on the areola. The areola, the dark area around the nipple, has already gotten darker and larger - and will continue to grow and deepen in color over the months to come. Your nipples may be sticking out a little more than usual, but they're so sensitive and tender that they may hurt to the touch. The culprit? Those naughty-but-necessary pregnancy hormones again, estrogen and progesterone.įat is also building up in your breasts and blood flow to the area is increasing. Some women have grown a full cup size at 7 weeks pregnant - which might be welcome news if those boobs weren't so uncomfortably tender, tingly and achy. Though your baby is the size of a blueberry, your breasts probably look more like melons. Then there's that other early pregnancy sign you certainly can't miss, especially when you struggle to button your blouse over your ever-growing breasts (are these really mine?). Like that nagging pregnancy nausea that follows you around day and night or all that excess saliva pooling in your mouth (am I drooling?). Not in so many words, but in so many pregnancy symptoms. Your Body at Week 7Įven if you're not telling anyone you're pregnant yet, your baby's certainly telling you. Lucky for you, there's no need for diapers yet. Soon, your baby will start producing urine. The kidneys are in place now, too, and are poised to begin their important work of waste management. Baby's got kidneysĪlso forming this week are your baby's mouth and tongue. Her arm and leg buds begin to sprout and grow longer and stronger, dividing into hand, arm and shoulder segments and leg, knee and foot segments - though the limb buds look more like paddles than hands or feet at this early stage. How's that for a budding genius? Baby's arms and legs start developingĪnd talking about buds, your baby is going out on a limb this week. New brain cells form rapidlyĪt 7 weeks pregnant, most of that growth is concentrated in the head (the better to store all those smarts) as new brain cells are generated at the rate of 100 per minute. Sounds pretty tiny still? Consider this for a little perspective: Your baby is 10,000 times bigger now than she was at conception a month ago. Your baby's approximately a quarter of an inch in length now - about the size of a blueberry. Only 7 months left to go! Still have questions? Here's some more information on how weeks, months and trimesters are broken down in pregnancy. If you're 7 weeks pregnant, you're in month 2 of your pregnancy. ![]()
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