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2 Months Pregnant: Symptoms and Fetal Development
At two months pregnant, you might be feeling overwhelmed, excited, worried, happy — or all of the above, and more. That’s pregnancy for you! There’s no doubt you’ll have a lot on your mind this month. Read on to learn more about common pregnancy symptoms, how your baby is developing during the coming weeks, and what else is in store for you at two months pregnant.
Common Pregnancy Symptoms at 2 Months Pregnant
At two months pregnant, some commonly experienced pregnancy symptoms include:
Morning sickness. Pregnancy-related nausea and vomiting often strikes between week four and week nine. Contrary to popular belief, morning sickness can hit at any time of day, not just in the morning. It might help to maintain a balanced diet, staying away from greasy and spicy foods, and to go for smaller, more frequent meals. When you wake up in the morning, try eating some plain crackers before getting out of bed to help stabilize your blood sugar levels.
Rest, stay hydrated, and sip ginger ale or ginger tea to calm your stomach. Not all moms-to-be experience morning sickness, but if you do, take some comfort in the fact that it frequently subsides by the time you reach the second trimester. If your symptoms are particularly bad, speak to your healthcare provider as it could be a sign of a more severe form of morning sickness called hyperemesis gravidarum.
Mood changes. Don’t be surprised if you’re a bit more emotional than usual. Your body is experiencing a surge of hormones, which can lead to some wild shifts in your emotions. Your moods might also fluctuate based on how you’re feeling physically or mentally. For example, if you have morning sickness and this is making you feel uncomfortable and stressed, then it’s natural to feel down from time to time.
Food aversions. Certain foods, or even smells, that you once enjoyed can start to seem unappealing and may even trigger nausea now that you’re pregnant.
If you find your tastes have changed, it’s OK to stick to blander foods until your appetite returns (usually in the second trimester). Just make sure to speak to your healthcare provider about ways to keep up a healthy diet if certain foods are off the menu temporarily. You can also download our guide to nutrition during pregnancy for some helpful tips. Heartburn and indigestion. Pregnancy hormones can also relax the valve that connects your stomach and esophagus. When this happens, stomach acid can leak into the esophagus, causing this uncomfortable symptom. Spicy or fried foods are best avoided if you suffer from heartburn.
Constipation. Feeling a little backed up can be a normal symptom of early pregnancy. Constipation may be caused by the hormone progesterone, which can slow digestion. Your prenatal vitamins can also lead to constipation if they contain a lot of iron. Staying hydrated and active can help, though.
Bloating.
You might be familiar with this symptom from your monthly menstrual cycle, but it can also crop up as an early sign of pregnancy. As usual, blame it on hormones if your jeans are now fitting a little bit tighter than normal. Fatigue. Being pregnant takes a lot of energy, so it’s perfectly normal to feel worn out or just more sleepy than usual. Rest when you can, even if this means saying “no” to a few things. A healthy diet and moderate exercise can sometimes give you a little energy boost. Plus, take comfort in the fact that many moms-to-be say their energy levels increase in the next trimester.
How Is Your Baby Developing This Month?
This month, your little one starts to develop a tiny nose, mouth, and ears. Eyelids have formed, and they’ll stay fused shut until the latter part of the second trimester.
There’s also some important organ development happening this month.
Your little one’s lungs now connect to the throat with breathing tubes. Like the lungs, the heart still has a lot of growing to do, but it’s now beating about 105 beats per minute — how about that!
The amniotic sac is now developed and filled with amniotic fluid. Its important job is to house and protect your little one from now until birth.
That’s not all! At the end of week eight, or approximately the end of your second month, there’s another exciting milestone: Your little one graduates from an embryo to a fetus, in medical terms, that is.
How Big Is Your Baby When You’re 2 Months Pregnant?
At the end of you being two months pregnant, your baby’s size could be about half an inch long, or in other words about the size of a raspberry.
What Does a Fetus Look Like at 2 Months?
Check out these illustrations for a glimpse at what your baby might look like when you’re two months pregnant:
2 Months Pregnant: Your Body’s Changes
Don’t expect to see too much of a belly bump at two months pregnant.
At this stage, your body probably won’t look dramatically different. (Read more about when you might start showing.) What you might notice, though, is that in addition to some sensitivity and soreness, your breasts may look fuller.
If your pre-pregnancy weight was within the normal BMI range, your healthcare provider may recommend a target weight gain of 25 to 35 pounds during your pregnancy, and at least two of these pounds will likely be gained by your breasts.
Over the course of the first trimester, you are likely to gain about one to five pounds. Try our Weight Gain Calculator to learn how much weight you may be advised to gain during the rest of your pregnancy. Your healthcare provider is your go-to resource for advice about healthy weight gain and nutrition during pregnancy.
Usually, you’ll only need to add about 300 extra calories to your diet each day, but this amount may increase later in your pregnancy. Your provider will be able to advise you based on your specific situation.
How Far Along Are You at 2 Months Pregnant?
At two months pregnant, you’re well into the first trimester, which spans week 1 to week 13. If you’re wondering how many weeks two months pregnant is, the answer can vary somewhat because weeks don't fit evenly into months, and you could be at the start or the end of your second month. So, you may want to think of two months pregnant as covering week five through week eight.
Checklist for When You’re 2 Months Pregnant
If you haven’t already, find out when you’ll get to meet your little one. Your healthcare provider will likely be able to give you an estimated due date at your first or next prenatal appointment; in the meantime, try our Due Date Calculator.
Keep all of your prenatal appointments to make sure you and your little one are staying healthy.
Focus on maintaining a healthy, balanced diet, and follow your healthcare provider's advice on starting or continuing to take prenatal vitamins.
Although not everyone experiences morning sickness, lots of moms-to-be do, so read up on when morning sickness typically starts and ends to help you feel more prepared.
Read up on pregnancy warning signs you shouldn’t ignore and find out who to call should you have any concerns if it’s outside your provider’s normal hours.
Keep track of the growth of your bump in photos.
Look for pregnancy and childbirth education classes in your area. It may seem soon, but you may need to register in advance to make sure you have a spot in the class you want.
Download our guide to the first trimester. It will help you navigate the early stages of your pregnancy more easily.
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2 Months Pregnant: Symptoms, Belly, Baby Size
A normal response to finding out someone is pregnant is to say “Congratulations,” right? But when people find out you’re 2 months pregnant, specifically, they may be tempted to offer their condolences, because being 2 months pregnant often sucks.
Don’t take it personally. They really are happy for you. But for many, this one of the toughest stages of pregnancy, beating out:
- the stage when you only want to eat hot sauce on pasta
- the stage when a literal glob of mucus falls out of your cervix without warning
- the stage where you have to prepare to push a watermelon-sized human out of your vagina
OK, some would argue on that last one.
We’re not trying to be all doom and gloom here. It’s just that we believe in being real — and in this case, that means telling you this month may involve a lot of unexpected vomiting, insane food cravings, is-this-normal-or-not spotting, and panic about what the entire rest of your life will be like.
Spoiler alert: You’re going to do great. Here’s what to expect at 2 months.
For such a tiny little thing, your baby is certainly causing you a lot of symptoms. It may be annoying, but it’s actually totally normal. At this stage of pregnancy, you might experience:
- morning sickness or persistent, all-day nausea
- vomiting
- bloating
- an increase in strong food aversions or cravings
- an increase in urination
- mood swings, weepiness, and fatigue
- changes to your breast size
- breast tenderness or soreness
- excess saliva
- constipation
- lightheadedness
Even though it may cause worry, it’s also normal to feel mild cramping or abdominal pain as well as spotting in early pregnancy.
(We’ll get into this more in a bit, but the keyword here is “mild.”)
In fact bleeding in early pregnancy is so common that it can happen in up to 25 percent of pregnancies and does not always mean there’s a problem with your pregnancy.
It’s totally possible that your baby bump is already showing at 2 months, but it’s more possible that the reason you can’t button up your skinnies is because of bloating.
Your hormone levels are surging right now and that causes a lot of water retention — just like when you get all puffy before your period.
Still, you could gain about 5 pounds in the first trimester — though it’s also fine if you don’t gain any — so it’s possible your bump is actually a bump.
And if this isn’t your first rodeo/pregnancy, your previously stretched-out abdominal muscles aren’t going to be great at keeping that expanding uterus under wraps.
At 2 months, baby is about the size of a raspberry. They still look a lot like an alien, but some human features are starting to develop: eyes, a nose, a mouth, and ears are growing on the outside, while important body systems — like the respiratory organs and nerves — are rapidly growing on the inside.
Your baby’s brain is making huge leaps in size, giving them a disproportionately giant noggin. (Don’t worry, it will be much more human-looking soon!)
And while their heart is beating at around 140 beats per minute, there’s a good chance you won’t be able to hear it on a Doppler machine at your OB-GYN’s office just yet. (You could, however, hear the heartbeat on an ultrasound at 8 weeks.)
Speaking of ultrasounds, your doctor could order an early one between 6 and 8 weeks of pregnancy. There are several reasons for this, ranging from serious (like a suspected ectopic pregnancy) to totally benign (like you don’t know for sure when your last period was, i.e., how far along you are).
If you do get scheduled for an early ultrasound, it will likely be transvaginal, not abdominal, since your baby is teensy.
In a healthy pregnancy, you can expect to see some cool things during a transvaginal ultrasound: the gestational sac, the yolk sac, the early shape of your baby, and their super-fast heartbeat.
If you’re earlier in your pregnancy than you expect, your baby may be too small to see or measure yet. The average gestational size at 8 weeks is about half an inch from crown to rump, or 12 millimeters.
If you’re pregnant with twins, your babies will measure the same size as singleton babies at 2 months.
In theory, they could both be detected on an ultrasound, but because all babies at this gestational age are super small, there’s a decent chance one of the babies could hide behind the other, making it look like you only have one.
This is much more likely to happen with early ultrasounds, like those performed before 8 weeks, especially if the twins are identical and sharing the same amniotic sac.
But once you get into your second trimester, it’s pretty rare for one baby to be totally tucked away behind the other — or for an ultrasound technician to just not see an entire second baby in your uterus!
Medical professionals will tell you that it’s important to stay healthy throughout all 9 months of your pregnancy by eating nutritious foods and exercising.
Should you try to have a healthy pregnancy? Of course! But also, it’s OK to see month two as a judgment-free zone with a free pass to live somewhat in survival mode.
Morning sickness often peaks around 8 or 9 weeks, so food may actually be one of your biggest struggles right now.
If all you can keep down are plain white bagels with cream cheese, then that is what you should eat. You need energy and strength at this point in your pregnancy more than you need leafy green vegetables and low fat dairy. (Do take your prenatal vitamin, though!)
Same goes for exercise — if there are times in the day when you aren’t nauseated, and doing some light exercise makes you feel more human, go right ahead. It’s perfectly fine to continue any pregnancy-safe exercises you were doing before you became pregnant.
There should be no expectations, though, that you’ll be doing any exercise other than getting off the couch to vomit in the privacy of your bathroom.
Remember when we said “mild” bleeding and cramping was A-OK? We’re sticking to that, but with one caveat: Let your doctor know it’s happening, even if it’s mild.
Why? Because you’re newly pregnant, which means your doctor needs to know if you’re doing things like spotting and cramping; it could be important, given your medical history.
Also, if your spotting or cramping comes with any other symptoms — like fever or difficulty urinating — that would also be cause for concern.
Other things that should prompt you to call your doc at 2 months:
- severe pain in your stomach or back
- fever
- bleeding that covers a panty liner or soaks a pad
- severe headache
- signs of a urinary tract infection
While vomiting and nausea are typical symptoms in the first trimester, you should call your doctor if you have persistent vomiting that prevents you from keeping down any food or drink at all. This could be a sign of hyperemesis gravidarum, a severe form of morning sickness that could cause dehydration and malnutrition if left untreated.
Being 2 months pregnant isn’t always fun: You may feel sick all the time, you could be cranky and irritable, and at times nothing will seem as appealing as crawling under the covers of your bed and staying there until it’s time to deliver your baby.
This too shall pass, and soon enough you’ll go back to eating whatever you want without puking and being able to stay awake past 7 p.m. every night.
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2nd month of pregnancy { 5th - 8th week }
In this article we will look at what happens to a woman and a child during the second month of pregnancy week by week. During this period, the changes in the body of a woman and in the development of a child are no less wonderful and amazing, despite the imperceptible external manifestations.
It is in the fifth week of pregnancy that most women are convinced that soon the family will be replenished with one little man.
Child development at the fifth week of pregnancy
At the fifth week of pregnancy, the unborn child is officially called an embryo. On ultrasound, you can clearly see the presence of a fetal egg in the uterus, the size of the embryo and assess its development. Although in the photo it is just a small black dot.
But the size does not play a role in this case: the development is very fast. It is from the fifth week that the baby's heart makes the first trial beats, all systems are actively formed: respiratory, genitourinary, digestive, nervous and cardiovascular.
At this stage, the blood type and gender of the unborn baby is already determined, the placenta (chorion) is formed, which feeds the baby throughout the pregnancy.
Changes in the mother's body at the fifth week of pregnancy
What happens to the mother at the fifth week of pregnancy? Menstruation never came, and the level of the “pregnancy hormone” (hCG) in the blood is already sufficient to determine the period and confirm the very fact of pregnancy.
In a woman's body, the hormones progesterone and estrogen are actively produced. Progesterone “removes” the tone of the uterus so that the body does not reject the embryo, and estrogen prepares the body for lactation.
Usually, the delay in menstruation is only a week and not every woman suspects that she is pregnant. But there are certain symptoms and sensations that give ambiguous clues to the expectant mother.
Signs of pregnancy and feelings of a woman in the fifth week of pregnancy
So, the delay of menstruation is about 7 days. The woman begins to worry, because she feels something unusual. It can be fatigue or vice versa increased activity. The emotional state can be peaceful and melancholy, or vice versa. These are all tricks of hormones: their violent activity exposes a woman to unusual emotions and mood swings.
On the physical level, a woman in the fifth week of pregnancy becomes very attractive to the opposite sex. Still would! The breast can increase by one or even one and a half sizes! But for the woman herself, this causes discomfort - after all, the breasts are painful and very sensitive.
Sometimes signs of malaise are observed: again, either due to hormonal changes or due to a decrease in immunity.
Some women in the fifth week of pregnancy already feel the "charms" of toxicosis - nausea with certain smells, just nausea, and sometimes vomiting.
Important! If all the signs and symptoms of pregnancy are present, and the rapid test does not show pregnancy, it is better to consult a doctor. If, after a week, the test is negative, and there is still no menstruation, then a doctor's consultation is required. This may be due to deviations from the correct development of pregnancy.
Lifestyle in the fifth week of pregnancy, recommendations of specialists
As in general, doctors recommend a healthy lifestyle. But who listens to the right advice? However, not this time - the health of the unborn baby is at stake here, for which you are responsible right now.
If you still haven't quit smoking and drinking alcohol, now is the time to "jump the train" and think about your child's healthy heart and nervous system.
Nutrition at the 5th week of pregnancy should be varied, ideally balanced and maximally saturated with vitamins and minerals. If this is not possible, consult your doctor about taking a complex of vitamins and minerals for pregnant women. This will support your body and help your baby get proper nutrition for proper development.
Activities that are pleasant for you, walks in the fresh air will help to preserve the emotional background. If there are no contraindications, you can continue to play sports, removing extreme and traumatic exercises and loads.
If there are feline animals in the house, delegate the cleaning of the litter box to other family members. If this is not possible, clean the cat litter with gloves, washing your hands thoroughly afterwards. And be sure to let your doctor know.
Child development at the sixth week of pregnancy
In just one week, the embryo can double in size and reach 7 mm. At the sixth week, the most wonderful thing happens - blood begins to circulate in the embryo and a heartbeat can already be heard. Now it reaches 150 or more beats per minute.
Internal organs continue to form and all vital systems continue to form.
Changes in the mother's body at the sixth week of pregnancy
Usually, at the sixth week of pregnancy, a woman is confident in her condition, did several tests, visited or made an appointment with an obstetrician-gynecologist. Ultrasound at the sixth week of pregnancy confirmed the fact of pregnancy, the specialist assessed the development of the fetus and its size, gave recommendations on lifestyle, nutrition and vitamin therapy.
Hormones continue their work with might and main, but there are no visual changes yet.
Signs of pregnancy and how a woman feels in the sixth week of pregnancy
Morning sickness is getting worse, some women begin to vomit and completely lose their appetite. Others, on the contrary, constantly want to eat.
At this stage, it is important to monitor the condition: eat in moderation, drink enough fluids to prevent dehydration.
Painful sensations in the chest not only do not disappear, but continue to annoy, the chest continues to increase in size.
It is possible to raise the temperature to subfebrile figures - 37-37.5 ° C, which is also a variant of the norm. This should also be reported to your obstetrician-gynecologist.
There may be a pulling sensation in the lower abdomen, as before menstruation, problematic digestion and discomfort in the intestines. This is normal: this is how adaptation to a new state occurs.
Sixth week of pregnancy: examinations and tests
At your first "pregnant" appointment, the doctor will prescribe a number of necessary tests and examinations. It should be remembered that in each individual case, the set of even mandatory analyzes may differ. Just because your pregnant friend with diabetes has been prescribed screenings and non-invasive tests by a doctor doesn't mean you need them.
The usual standard set of tests includes: complete and biochemical blood tests, tests for TORCH infections, hepatitis, syphilis, HIV, urinalysis and protein, coagulogram, bacteriological analysis of urine, smear for flora and cytology.
Lifestyle at the sixth week of pregnancy, recommendations of specialists
The 6th obstetric week of pregnancy implies all the same rules and a healthy lifestyle.
If you vomit profusely, you need to drink more plain water and constantly monitor the level of fluid in the body. It is important to monitor the level of acetone in the urine. To do this, use special test strips that can be bought at any pharmacy.
To prevent constipation, drink more water, eat foods rich in fiber, exercise (pregnancy yoga, exercise). You also need to think about a special supportive bra.
The development of the child at the seventh week of pregnancy
The embryo continues to develop actively and has already grown to 1 cm in length! The outlines of the child can be seen more and more clearly, although the head and body are the same size. Cartilages are formed in the rudiments of the limbs - they are more and more stretched and flattened at the end.
At the 7th week of pregnancy, the general circulatory system of mother and child, as well as the umbilical cord, is already formed. It is from this very moment that the breathing and nutrition of the fetus are completely dependent on the mother's body.
Changes in the mother's body at the 7th week of pregnancy
The belly is not visible at the 7th week of pregnancy and will not be noticeable in the coming weeks. But the fact of the general circulatory system can lead to frequent urination and more pronounced fatigue.
Signs and feelings of pregnancy in the seventh week of pregnancy
If you have not yet experienced morning sickness, then by the 7th week it is likely to appear.
At the 7th week of pregnancy, fatigue, frequent urination and bloating usually appear. Depending on the signs, the daily regimen and activity, nutrition should be adjusted.
The emergence of "weird" taste preferences is quite common, as well as aversion to previously favorite foods.
Seventh week of pregnancy: examinations and tests
If you have reached the doctor at the 7th week of pregnancy, then the set of tests will be similar to the 6th week. If you have already done an ultrasound, then an additional ultrasound at the 7th week of pregnancy is not prescribed.
Lifestyle at the 7th week of pregnancy, recommendations from specialists
Some individual feelings will force you to adjust your lifestyle, daily routine and nutrition.
You should listen to your feelings and follow the doctor's advice: avoid stress, get enough sleep and rest, add ginger to your diet to improve digestion and maintain immunity.
Development of the child at the eighth week of pregnancy
The child at the eighth week of pregnancy reaches 40 mm and weighs 5 grams.
