At 11 weeks of pregnancy, your baby has reached a size of approximately 45mm. Imagine a whole die – it’s more or less there. Between this week and the 14th, you will be able to see your baby, inside the belly. This is because it is during this period that midwives recommend doing a morphological ultrasound in the first trimester. The examination, in addition to allowing the long-awaited peek, detects malformations and chromosomal alterations. Oh, and you’ll most likely be able to feel the racing heartbeat. What an emotion!
11 weeks of pregnancy and a lot of progress in sight
At this stage, a thin layer of skin forms on your baby’s body. Tiny nails also begin to appear and the bones become stiffer. The head is almost half the length of the body, which shows the accelerated pattern of growth in the last few days. It sounds a lot in your belly, even if you can’t feel it yet.
A completely new organ: the placenta!
Now, your baby no longer feeds through the yolk sac. He can already count on the very important functions of an organ, created by his body specifically to take care of him inside the uterus: “My pleasure, I am the placenta!”. Yes, your placenta probably started working at 11 weeks of pregnancy. It is she who provides, from now on, the nutrients and oxygen your baby needs to develop healthily. Also take your child’s waste outside.
Your body at 11 weeks of pregnancy
If you are expecting twins or if you have been pregnant before, your belly is probably already showing. If not, it may not be so clear to the world that, yes, there is new life inside. But rest assured that in the next few weeks it should change.
You are approaching the end of the term considered the most difficult by most moms: the first. Over the next few days, your hormones are likely to begin to calm down, and so it’s possible for nausea and fatigue to drop dramatically. Second quarter, here we come!
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