Hi everybody,
I'm Melissa. Congratulations on reaching week 10 of your pregnancy. I'm also 10
weeks pregnant. It's really fun to do this journal of weeks with you guys. At this stage,
your baby is about the size of a kumquat and can stretch its spine. Your baby measures 1.22 inches
give or take and weighs about .14 ounces. By week 10, all of your baby's vital organs have
started to develop, fingers and toes are fully separated, the bones of the skeleton are forming,
eyelids are more developed, and outer ears are assuming their final form.
Let's talk about the bump. I feel like I have a little bit more of a bump
than in prior weeks. I don't think I'm showing like a tremendous amount.
My jeans are getting tight to the point of uncomfortable. I'm wearing mostly yoga clothes,
and I'll talk about exercise in a minute. I feel like you could see a little bit more of a
roundness there than in prior weeks. I don't think it's something that's like anything too visible,
and again putting my chair back into place here, there's just like a huge range of what's normal
when it comes to baby bumps, so don't worry about this too much. If you're very, very concerned
about it, talk to your doctor, but in most cases, he or she is not going to be concerned.
In terms of exercise, it's now uncomfortable for me to be on my stomach, so the vinyasa yoga
classes are getting a little tricky for me. What I'm doing is like if I do that flow when you go
an upward dog, I just try to hoist myself up and not put pressure on my stomach, and I'm trying to
be careful with ab work, just do things that are very low impact and maybe by putting my upper body
on the ground and just doing this with my legs. I actually do Pilates once a week at a center near
here, and that's where I'm doing the ab work, and they're sort of overseeing me because they have a
lot of experience with pregnancy, but I would be careful about that and talk to your doctor.
Walking, I think, is of course completely fine. Bar exercises, I think, can be fine, especially
if they don't involve abdominal work. Swimming is really, you know, a favorite form of exercise
when pregnant. Talk to your doctor. You still hopefully are really exercising at this point.
This is the time when you really can exercise. It can get more complicated later in the pregnancy,
so it's really good to stay healthy and strong, and that will help you post-baby also.
When it comes to getting back into shape in terms of pregnancy symptoms, fatigue,
dizziness, and headaches are big ones at this stage due to the increased blood flow in the body.
Morning sickness is still quite common, although hopefully subsiding. I talk about that in week
five. Frequent urination, which I'm like a huge victim of, is also a very, very common symptom.
I'm planning to have a test which is called the CVS. CVS stands for chorionic villus
sampling, and it can be done between weeks 10 and 14. I plan to have it during week 13.
In short, what's going to happen is that they're going to put blue gel on my belly,
the doctor is going to watch the position of the baby on an ultrasound and insert a very
long thin needle into my abdomen. He's going to take samples of what are called chorionic villi.
Those are the tiny structures along the placenta that contain trace amounts of fetal cells. It's
very uncomfortable. I had it done with two prior babies, but it's also very quick. I'm not looking
forward to it, but I just feel like it's something I really want to do because I really want to know
that everything's good, and I know I'm going to breathe a sigh of relief when hopefully those
test results come back telling me that on the genetic side, everything is healthy with my baby.
Diet: Avoid raw fish, avoid alcohol, avoid soft non-pasteurized cheeses. Try to get a diet that's
rich in omega-3s, folic acid, tons of salads, calcium, iodine, protein, vitamin C and B12.
There's a whole host of like foods that are really great for this. I've got some
shows on it, and a lot of people have chosen information on it. Try to just stay healthy,
avoid a lot of sugar, avoid saturated fats, and drink tons and tons and tons of water.
Here's a quick checklist for week 10: keep taking your prenatal vitamin,
follow your dietary guidelines, and drink tons of water. Confirm your week 12 doctor's visit.
Exercise: I'm doing a slightly more mellow yoga class. Make sure you stay
stretched, make sure you stay strong. This is a good time to be exercising, so you really want
to take advantage of it and have fun. Thank you to Be Mama so much for dialing in. It's
really fun to be doing this with you guys, and I will see you next week on Cloudmom.com. [Music]