5 Weeks Pregnant, 4 Ways to Care for Your Unborn Baby

5 Weeks Pregnant, 4 Ways to Care for Your Unborn Baby
You are 5 weeks pregnant, as your period is missed a whole month now. You have tested positive to all other pregnancy tests, so you are no longer doubtful if you are pregnant or not. At this stage, your baby is formed and growing. It’s time to wake up to the business of motherhood; this is what this article would help you with.

5 weeks pregnancy symptoms and your baby’s development

You don’t have to worry about feeling sick, feeling bloated, frequenting the bathroom, feeling fatigue, sore, bigger and heavy breasted or wanting to eat always or getting turned off about food and needs to drink water all the time… these are all symptoms confirming your pregnancy hormones are increasing to respond to the pace of development of your growing baby.

While your body is responding to its own side of the care for your baby, how best can you help your body in this important task? This is our focus in this article, to look at 4 best ways to take good care of your unborn baby.

1.     Stay close to your doctor
Medically, there are enough help for you during pregnancy to help keep your baby safe and you need to take advantage of this. You need to start with keeping closer contact with your doctor or midwife for advice and examination to monitor your growing baby.

You are expected to report any unusual feeling immediately and regularly to your doctor for necessary examinations and tests, including ultrasound and other laboratory examinations.

Prenatal program give you the opportunity to even network with other expectant mothers, you have to feel at home in this program to build the right mindset for safe pregnancy.

Adhering to regular intake of your supplements is more than necessary at this time. Your doctor will be in position to recommend what’s best for you and your baby according to your peculiar condition.

2.     Cultivate healthy food habits
You should know that it’s what you eat that your baby would share of. You must adhere to healthy and safe food at this time and get more information on what food to take and what not to take from your doctor.

You need to be careful, especially if this is your first pregnancy, about what food advice you take. If not from your doctor, please make sure you confirm it before applying; this is more important now that you are 5 weeks pregnant.

Make sure you eat well and drink lots of water, as required, to keep you hydrated all day long.

You also need plenty of fruits, especially for its vitamin C content to help your baby’s cells as they are growing so fast at this stage of your pregnancy.

Make sure you eat such foods that give you enough of nutrients and other vitamins and minerals required for your baby’s developing stages.

3.     Avoid unhealthy habits
Now that you are pregnant, remember that you are no longer as you were before now. Therefore, you need to change some usual habits, we all do have habits! But any habit that would undermine healthy development of your unborn baby, you need to stop right now!

Let me say the common habits, call it social habits like smoking, drinking, clubbing, or to the extreme, indulging in drugs; I do know mine and so do you, just stop them now, for the sake of your baby!

Generally, avoid such habits that may not be healthy for your baby. Even you need to examine some ingredients in your cosmetics for make -ups, if any contains toxic substance, stop its use before it harms your baby.

4.     Observe physical fitness
You will need to engage in some useful exercises during this time to prepare you both psychologically and strong for your baby.

The more energetic and alert you are, the more you are able to cope with the constantly changing needs of your body as your baby grows.


Talk to your doctor on what exercises you can engage in at this time going forward.

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