Pregnancy Calendar - 7th Week
- Do not worry if you have a sense of heaviness in the lower abdomen, if you feel the swelling or feel weakness and fatigue.
- Avoid coffee and tea and smells that bother you.
- Do not have a completely empty stomach or a too full one. Eat small portions frequently.
For the mother:
- It makes sense that you have already felt some of the early symptoms of pregnancy. One of the most striking symptoms is the changes in the breasts, caused by hormones that stimulate the lactiferous glands. The chances are that your breasts feel "fuller" and softer than usual, while the veins underneath the skin surface are more clearly distinguished due to the increased blood flow to your breasts. You might even have noticed that your nipples have started to protrude, and the areola, the area around the nipple, has become even darker.
For the baby:
- The fetus now has a disproportionately large cranium, which leans forward of a curved spine while some features of the limbs are slowly projected, the first indications of the hands, feet and elbows. The fetus’s heart is now consisting of four ventricles and beats at double rates of those of your own.
- The fetus has grown to the point now exceeding the size of the yolk sac, which nevertheless continues to feed it, since the functions of the placenta have not yet occurred.
