11 Weeks Pregnant: Pregnancy Cravings

You’re 11 weeks pregnant and almost done your first trimester and, by the grace of some benevolent higher power, your nausea, fatigue and moodiness are dwindling. Or not. Most women begin to see the decline of the unpleasant early pregnancy symptoms around this time while other sisters continue to suffer a while longer. If you fall into the latter category, don’t worry – you’re not alone. Gaze up at the stars tonight and take comfort that women around the world are still vomiting and cursing their husbands’ names at this stage of pregnancy. Even if you’re feeling fine, you may be experiencing a roller coaster of food aversions and cravings. Your sense of smell is heightened, as are many of your senses, and some scents you previously enjoyed or didn’t notice might drive you screaming from the room now (and what is up with those neighbours who have all of a sudden decided barbecued salmon steaks are a daily necessity?). Try to get a variety of foods into your body and add more foods as your aversions change or lessen.

Your uterus has now grown to the size of a grapefruit (!) to accommodate the little person inside. The fetus is about 2 inches long by the end of this week and she’s beginning a massive growth spurt; by week 20 she will have quadrupled in size to 8 inches! Your blood volume is increasing to encourage all this growth and you may experience flashes of hot and cold that rival your mother’s menopausal complaints. While you struggle for sleep your little one is starting to have sleep cycles of her own, waking and dozing at more regular intervals. She’s gracefully swimming, swallowing fluid and even hiccupping now as her tiny diaghram starts to form. Note: what goes in must come out. Baby is swallowing fluid, which means she is passing that fluid as urine. That’s right. She’s peeing.

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Our pregnancy calendar is researched & written by our Pregnancy Editor, Dara Duff-Bergeron. Although she rocks, she is not a health care professional. It's just for entertainment purposes and any recommendations or information provided should not be used as a substitute for the real deal - a trained medical professional.

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