Prenatal development: Week 6

When your prenatal development going to sixth week, morning sickness especially vomiting my occur. This is because of your hormone level increase. Your nipple portion (areola) becomes darker than normal days. Main symptoms of your sixth week are normally occurring in the morning. Women must avoid uncooked, half prepared meat during pregnancy. Some dramatic developments taking place your inner body and symptoms may occur outside. Nausea and Tiredness can make you feel bad. But you should know about it. This time you may not have told anyone that you are pregnant.

Baby’s growth

Your baby is like a seed. If you could see inside yourself, you can find dark spots where the eyes and nostrils are starting to form. You can find a large head also. The emerging ears are marked and the arms and legs look like bristled buds. The hands and feet are shaped like paddles, and fingers are beginning to form even now. The heart has divided into the right and left chambers and is beating about 140-160 times a minute (roughly twice the rate of an adult heart.) when the 6th week of your pregnancy, the embryo is
only 4th week old. That is about 8mm in size. At the beginning stage the spinal cord is an open position and gradually transforms into a closed one. Now the blood cells and the blood vessels start forming. The sixth week of pregnancy, your baby’s heart is like a small cylinder shape and starts beating. The heartbeats are easily detectable now. The brain develops and divides in five parts. The eyes and the ears are also developing from the optic pits and two folds of tissues respectively. The limbs are differentiated in their respective places.  Now the embryo’s size is around the size of a raisin. The brain develops very quickly and turns into a complex one. The baby looks somewhat like its original shape and continues to develop. The woman feels the same symptoms just like the last week.

Your Diet

During the sixth week of pregnancy you should concentrate your diet. These stage your body wants 250-350 extra calories per day. These days Baby is going through some distinct and crucial changes. You should split larger meals into smaller meals and munch throughout the day; this will help you to keep control of the morning sickness. Because some part of your morning sickness is much worse on an empty stomach. Don’t consume fatty foods because some fatty foods seriously affect your normal digestion. Drink plenty of water and get plenty of rest. You should avoid keeping your stomach completely empty or completely full. Because of your nausea and morning sickness.

The sixth weeks of pregnancy your uterus starts growing in size and you will gain some weight. In the whole first trimester, most of the pregnant women gain about 5 pounds. You will observe a little change in your waist size as it might become a little thicker. You will notice that some of your clothes are getting a bit tight. If it is your first pregnancy, then your body does not change that much.

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