Pregnancy Week 5

Mother:-

1. Some women are plagued with morning sickness during their entire pregnancies, though most morning sickness gets better after the first trimester.
2. Morning sickness is often worse on an empty stomach.
3. ginger tea or lemon water helps relieve nausea.
4. Another remedy is supplementation with extra B-6.
5. The most common early pregnancy symptom at five weeks pregnant is a sense of fatigue.
6. One great way to take advantage of a natural pick me up is to exercise.
7. Many women decide to keep their pregnancies private until after the 12th week. This is because the chance of miscarriage is greatest during the first 12 weeks of pregnancy.
8. The central nervous system (the brain and spinal cord), muscle and bone formation are beginning to take shape in your baby.
9. You may start noticing some early symptoms of pregnancy during this week.
10. Morning sickness, nausea and vomiting, frequent urination, breast changes; tenderness, tingling in the breasts or nipples are all early signs.
11. Fatigue or tiring easily is also common at this time.
12. the earliest blood elements and vessels have formed in your baby and developing placenta.

Baby:-

1. During 5 weeks pregnant, your baby is still just over a millimeter long.
2. Vital organs continue to develop through this week.
3. the central nervous system, muscles, bones and even the heart will begin to form.
4. the heart will begin to divide into separate chambers and start pumping blood.
5. The heart is formed from the middle layer of cells, called the mesoderm.
6. Other organs that will develop from this layer include the muscles, cartilage, and bone.
7. the primitive placenta and umbilical cord are also developing.
8. The neural tube will start developing from a top layer of cells called the ectoderm.
9. The baby's skin, hair, nails and sweat glands will also develop out of this layer.
10. A third layer of cells, called the endoderm, is also developing this week.
11. The lungs, intestines, thyroid and pancreas also develop from this layer.