1 Weeks Pregnant

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Here's what's happening during Week 1 of your pregnancy:

Your Growing Baby

Health care providers start counting how many weeks pregnant you are by the date of the first day of your most recent menstrual period (last menstrual period, or LMP). This is used to calculate your baby's gestational age. When you visit your caregiver, he will probably use a forty-week medical standard as a timetable for the length of your pregnancy. That means that according to most week calculations, you're already two weeks pregnant on the day you conceive.

Your Growing Belly

Some women love the physical experience of pregnancy. They love the excitement, anticipation, attention, and healthy glow, and the feeling of growing a little life inside. When it's over, they can' wait to do it again. Other women hate everything about pregnancy, dreading labor and feeling ugly and oppressed by their tiny slave driver downstairs. Your genes, family's attitude, home situation, and outlook on life will all play a part. Love or hate pregnancy, lots of women find the first trimester the most difficult, for a number of reasons, including feeling awful, being moody, having your relationship challenged and tested, and not knowing what' safe and what's not. Now's the time to adjust your lifestyle. As you probably already know, smoking and drinking are bad, exercise and a nutritious diet are good. Once you start seeing your care provider, use your appointments to ask plenty of questions-- the more you know, and the more confidence you feel in your provider's abilities, the less frightening the whole pregnancy, birth, and labor process will be.

Tips & To-Do's

Yoga Mama

Did you know that yoga can work for you, no matter what stage of pregnancy youu're in? Our Iyengar-based program, complete with modifications based on your stage of pregnancy, will take you from your first trimester right up to delivery and includes favorite poses, such as Triangle, Warrior, Twists, and Forward Bends.
Here's how to get started now.

Things to think about this week: If you haven't started already, you should be taking a prenatal multivitamin with 400 micrograms of folic acid daily (take 600 micrograms when you get pregnant).

 

Pregnancy Milestones:

Below are some of the most important milestones of your pregnancy. Click on any week to read more, or view our Week-by-Week Pregnancy page to see your pregnancy at-a-glance.

 

Week 4: Positive test: You're pregnant! You may be starting to feel bloated, crampy, tired and moody, and experiencing sore breasts, nausea/vomiting and a frequent need to pee.  But don't worry if you're not—that's normal.  Read more about being 4 weeks pregnant.

 

Week 8: Your doctor may look or listen for the baby's heartbeat with an ultrasound. Once you see or hear it, your miscarriage risk drops to about 2 percent. He'll also give you an official due date—though very few women actually deliver on that day.  Read more about being 8 weeks pregnant.

 

 

Week 10: Your inch-long baby is now called a fetus. While the icky side effects of pregnancy may be starting to abate, your anxiety about having a healthy baby might be increasing.  Read more about being 10 weeks pregnant.

 

 

Week 15: The "window of opportunity" for many important screening and diagnostic tests opens this week, should you decide to undergo them.  Read more about being 15 weeks pregnant.

 

 

Week 16: Sometime between 16 and 22 weeks, you'll start to feel your baby move.  Read more about being 16 weeks pregnant.

 

 

Week 29: The basketball-sized lump in your belly may be inhibiting shoe tying, leg shaving and the like. The fetus is increasingly sensitive to light and sound.  Read more about being 29 weeks pregnant.

 

 

Week 36: The baby may drop lower into your pelvis in preparation for delivery. This should make it easier to breathe—yet your pee breaks will become ever more frequent.  Read more about being 36 weeks pregnant.

 

 

Click here to read more about every week of pregnancy on our Week-by-Week Pregnancy page.