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Congratulations! Till now you have completed half the path in your pregnancy and you need to complete another half.

Eating healthy, childbirth lessons, drinking enough water, petite maternity clothing, proper workouts, enough rest and a supportable maternity pillow can be the weapons to complete the remaining half journey.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 20?

During this time, engaging in a Lamaze course is a great way to get relief. This course will teach you a wide range of alternative breathing and birthing techniques. If you are already under the course, then do these activities along with yoga or swimming courses.

The Lamaze classes will teach you essential coping strategies for labor, along with focused breathing, labor support, positioning, relaxation, massage [pregnancy massage], hydrotherapy and also the use of heat and cold therapies.

Both of these pregnancy exercises will help you in focusing your breathing patterns and at the same time they will increase your strength, flexibility and energy flow. Now the size of your uterus is approximately 18-22 cm. You feel slight itching because of the wide stretching of your body.

Some radical changes take place during this week. Two reasons are there behind this, one is there are actually faster changes during this period and the second is now the changes are more noticeable.

As time progresses, there is considerable increase in the height. As your baby’s legs are developed and straightened up, your doctor can measure the fetal growth from head to toe but not from crown to rump.

Along with these, you will observe some more changes in you and your baby’s body during pregnancy week 19.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 19?

During this time, pregnancy exercise is the most important thing that you need to concentrate on. Most of the physicians recommend you to start the pregnancy-friendly exercise regimen for healthy development of you and your baby.

Walking, yoga [Pregnancy Yoga], and small weight training are the good ones for your heart and overall stamina during this physically challenging time. Regular exercise practice can greatly help you to increase the overall flexibility so that you will experience less tension and pain at the time of labor. Also, regular workout practice helps you to stay away from unnecessary weight gain.

The pregnancy week 18 ensures that the most apparent of pregnancy symptoms become real.

You love to eat a lot and your appetite goes beyond your control and sooner you will observe an enlarged belly.

Don’t worry about this, all these pregnancy side effects will disappear after 40th week of pregnancy. At present, eat and enjoy the life.

By this time, it is better to sleep on your side; otherwise it puts unnecessary pressure on your pelvic veins. Here are the changes that take place in you and your baby during pregnancy week 18:

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 18?

Still you can enjoy a lot with your little one’s kicks inside your belly. If you have strong abdominal muscles, you are obese or your fetus is hiding, then you may fall on the late end of scale. If this is the first pregnancy for you, then you cannot observe the fetal movements as early as in successive pregnancies.

You will feel that now your uterus is just below your bellybutton. Definitely, you should be showing a bit by now. Most of the pregnant women will gain the weights anywhere between 10-15 pounds. By this week, your uterus is about the size of a small melon.

During this period, you can feel your baby’s movements inside you. If you are a first time mother, then there is a chance that you do not recognize the movements inside your body. For first time mothers, there is a tendency to ignore the initial movements.

Some of the overweight mothers can also unable to recognize their child’s movements during the early stages. Some of the thinner mothers can feel these movements even earlier than pregnancy week 17.

Not only the movements, but also you will observe various changes during the 17th week of pregnancy.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 17?

During pregnancy week 17, your uterus starts to change its shape as your pregnancy progresses and looks like a large egg rather than a small ball. Gradually, the egg occupies most of your pelvis and abdomen. During this process, the organs along with your intestines get pressed to the sides.

By pregnancy week 17, your uterus should be about 1.5-2 inches below the bellybutton.

Changes during pregnancy week 17:

• By this week, gradually, you are about to gain some more weight.

Week 16 is the best time to join the pregnancy clubs, meetings and chat with other women who are under similar conditions. This will greatly help you.

In these meetings, you might very commonly come across few concepts, which you have heard but you are not very clear about.

You will come across various changes during week 16 pregnancy.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 16?

Some women experience nasal congestion and nose bleeds. This is due to altered levels of hormones. This leads to the swelling of mucus membrane in the nose.

Softening of the tissues and increased blood levels can also cause this condition. Unfortunately, this condition can continue throughout the pregnancy. Increased blood volume makes your heart to work harder in order to support the pregnancy.

Deficiency of vitamin C can also lead to nose bleeds, so increase the intake of vitamin C rich foods. Avoid the usage of nose drops except saline, unless your doctor suggests.

This is one of the first stages of pregnancy that can give vital information about the sex of your baby.

Though it is not 100% accurate, the pregnancy ultrasound examination can give results related to your baby’s sex within few weeks.

You will know whether the child inside you is a boy or girl. Also, you will come across various changes during this week.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 15?

You will feel that your ligaments are stretching in your stomach. Whenever the uterus expands, the ligaments that hold the uterus stretch to accommodate its growth. This process can lead to cramps, twinges and pulling sensation on one or both sides of your lower abdomen. Warm bath can help to relieve from the symptoms.

Your uterus starts growing past your hip bones any moment from now. Also, you can feel this at three to four inches below the navel. Your doctor will measure the “fundal height” in order to ensure that your baby is developing adequately and consistently. Fundal height is the space between the top of the uterus and the pubic bone.

Symptoms that you will experience during pregnancy week 15:

The growth of your baby is very fast in pregnancy week 14. There is so much to happen inside you, then why don’t you connect with the life inside you.

Everyday try to spare few minutes with your baby. Experts suggest that being with your little one during the pregnancy aids in creating a special parent-child bond.

Just keep your hands on your belly and think about your little one, which makes a great difference.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 14?

If you experience little gas or any kind of odd bowel obstruction at this time, then this is actually your little one pushing you to say hello. You will become more familiar with the sensation because of the increase in intensity and frequency.

During the second trimester of your pregnancy, you will experience some of the following symptoms, but not all. They include: back pain, headaches and dizziness. Similar to the morning sickness during the first trimester of pregnancy, these symptoms present if you already have them in your previous pregnancy.

If you feel back pain at this time, then it will become more severe as you gain more weight till the end of the trimester.

Now you have entered into the second trimester of pregnancy. The energy that you lost during the first weeks of pregnancy now comes back to the initial level and also the physical desires come back to the normal level.

A new energy replaces the dreadful feelings that you have experienced during the initial weeks such as nausea, morning sickness and tiredness.

Second trimester during the pregnancy is usually smoothest period for most of the pregnant women. You will notice great changes during this pregnancy week 13. Second trimester of your pregnancy is usually referred to as the “honeymoon of the pregnancy”.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 13?

Till now various things have happened. You need to feel proud of yourself with the hard work and your sacrifice. Quitting up the alcohol, tobacco, sodas, and lattes is not that much easy. This period is the great time to devote yourself on your pregnancy.

Don’t forget that everyday during the pregnancy is a new opportunity to improve your exercise [Pregnancy exercise] and eating habits [Pregnancy nutrition]. For this, your body and also your baby will thank you in the long run.

Various things happened in your life for the last 12 weeks. Till now you got relief from the conditions like nausea and morning sickness. Week 12 is also full of various changes in you and your baby.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 12?

Your uterus grows in size along with the growth of your baby. By this week, the flat and relatively small uterus is stretched to the size of soft ball i.e. up to 12-14 cm. This is a very small change. At the time of your delivery, the uterus stretches up to 15-17 inches.

The size of the uterus will grow slowly i.e. one centimeter per week. With this growth, the uterus shifts up and forward as it increases in size.

Generally, 11-12 weeks is the right time to share your pregnancy with others.

You will notice lot of skin changes during this week. If you have lot of freckles during your pregnancy, then they will become dark after pregnancy week 12. The skin surrounding the areolas and nipples will become darker.

As you approach towards the end of first trimester of the pregnancy, for most of you, your pregnancy begins to appear. This is the right time to inform others about the good news particularly in professional circle.

During this week, various changes are observed in you and your baby’s body.

What are the physical changes that occur in your body during pregnancy week 11?

If you still experience morning sickness, this comes to an end by the end of this week. Growing placenta along with your baby’s growing pituitary gland gives you a break on the production of hormones by this week.

Now the focus is on the beginning of second trimester of pregnancy. The second trimester is most appropriately characterized by plenty of growth for both you and your little one.

By the end of this week, your uterus will rise above the pelvic bones; your doctor can recognize it with an external examination. A vertical dark line of pigmentation called as linea-nigra, which comes from your naval down to your pubic hair will appear shortly.

Care you need to take during pregnancy week 11: