![]() If you're really struggling with morning sickness - say, you've lost at least 5 pounds or can't keep anything down for more than eight hours - ask your doctor whether you should take a pregnancy anti-nausea drug like Zofran or Diclegis. Try to eat often but only a little at a time, which should also help your body battle another stubborn woe coming your way soon: pregnancy heartburn. ![]() Whatever the cause, take heart - your baby feels just fine, even while you're hugging the bowl. It could be because of the increased level of hCG and estrogen circulating in your body or the relaxation of the muscles of the digestive tract, making digestion less efficient, due to rising progesterone levels or the rapid stretching of the uterine muscles. No one knows for sure what causes that queasy feeling - and does it really matter when you're about to toss your cookies for the third time today? - though theories abound. If you're among the estimated 75 percent of pregnant women who have morning sickness, you know all too well that it may start in the morning - but it can linger all day and all night. Yes, it's that notorious pregnancy rite of passage: morning sickness - though the name can be misleading. But while it's unlikely you look pregnant from the outside, you almost certainly feel pregnant on the inside, especially when those insides threaten to come out all day long. That's because your uterus, usually the size of a fist, has grown to the size of a large grapefruit by week 8 of pregnancy.Īdmittedly, that's still pretty small. While your babe isn't exactly causing you to show yet, chances are your clothes are feeling a little tight around the tummy. ![]() Amniotic fluid volume is increasing and your womb is expanding to accommodate its growing tenant. Your baby's digs are getting bigger, too. How do you know? Even though you can't yet feel it, baby's tiny trunk and limb buds are now twitching and making spontaneous movements. Baby is on the move!Īll this growing is exciting for your baby, too. You'd see an upper lip forming, the protruding tip of that cute button nose and tiny, very thin eyelids. ![]() What else is changing at 8 weeks pregnant? A close-up view of your little embryo would reveal your baby is looking a lot less reptilian and a lot more baby-like.Įven though baby has webbed hands and feet, teeny fingers and toes are just starting to differentiate and the tail is almost gone. You can follow your baby's growth in the What to Expect app! Baby's got lips, a nose and eyelids Spurts can happen in the arms, legs, back and other parts of that tiny body, meaning big changes are coming every which way in the next few months. Though growth occurs at about the rate of a millimeter a day, it isn't necessarily just in height. Meanwhile, how big baby is has become a bit harder to estimate. How's she measuring up this week? At a length of about half to three-quarters of an inch right now, your little one has graduated from blueberry-sized to raspberry-sized. 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 8 weeks pregnant, you're in month 2 of your pregnancy.
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