"Did you know that now I am already almost nine inches (22 centimeters) long and I weigh 9 ounces (250 grams)?"
19 Weeks Pregnant
The Baby Your baby is now in his fifth month. His skin is wrinkled and he still has no subcutaneous fat but he is slowly losing his reddish skin color. He is getting more hair on his head. He can also observe sounds now such as the heartbeat and bowel movements of his mother. But he reacts to sounds from outside also; loud or sudden noises may startle him. Some studies have shown that babies in the uterus are calmed by listening to music such as Mozart or Vivaldi. From now on he will also recognize his mother's voice. If your partner or children speak directly to your stomach, the baby will hear and recognize theirvoices too! What you eat even has an influence on the taste preference of your baby. In a recent study, older babies appeared to eat much more of their mashed carrots if the mother drank carrot juice each day during the pregnancy. From five months on the baby can recognize fragrances and taste substances that wind up in the amniotic fluid via the mother.
As the pregnancy progresses, the baby occasionally has a growth spurt when your belly grows extra fast. By now, your waistline has probably disappeared. After twenty weeks of pregnancy your uterus will be above your navel. Your baby doesn't notice anything, he happily continues to give you kicks left and right that you can feel more and more.
If you two want to take a break, do so in the second trimester. It is still possible and permissable to fly and it's great to acquire new energy by going on vacation together.
Mother After the physical inconveniences and perhaps also the tension of the previous months the world looks rosier again and you also have more interest in sex. The exhaustion by day and the feeling at night that you are so tired you need to collapse may be gone and you are getting interested in your partner again. Your hormones may be in overdrive and your circulation is better - including in your pelvis, vagina, labia and clitoris. That feels great. Because you feel better mentally and your partner no longer has to restrain himself, frightened as he was that he might hurt the baby, your sex life is thriving again. Your tummy is not really in the way yet and you have already seen that with talking about it and varying the positions there are a lot of wonderful things to experience. An orgasm during your pregnancy is absolutely not dangerous, neither for the baby nor yourself. It may be the best orgasm of your life, and, it gently squeezes the baby as if he were getting a hug from you.You may feel some a pulling sensation in your abdomen or back as the contractions of the uterus pull on the surrounding muscles and joints. The sensitivity, you can't really call it pain, goes away quickly. Your partner doesn't need to be worried, either, that he will damage the amniotic sac or the baby with his penis - if you need to, remind him the baby is tucked away behind the cervix, which is plugged with a strong clot of mucus, hidden inside the amniotic sac, and floating in amniotic fluid which distributes pressure equally all around the baby's body. There is no chance of normal, vigorous sexual intercourse hurting the baby. Your baby is protected extremely well.
Father
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Living with a pregnant woman is not always easy. One minute she radiates "hold me close" and not even two seconds later she yells "let me go". What is that all about? Especially because your spouse also doesn't always have a grip on all of the serious changes in her life and in her mind, you should open to these changing winds of emotion,even if you don't get it at all sometimes because she's sending mixed signals. Never respond to what she says with: "Stop complaining, it will pass" or "It's probably because of the hormones". A simple "Uh-huh" is better than that!Everything is overwhelming, new and unknown for you but also especially for her. Her body feels different now and that is something she sometimes doesn't know how to deal with. The only thing that really helps is to talk together about your and her greatest insecurities. There's a solution to everything. Show understanding instead of submersing yourself in your work or hobbies. A relationship is a matter of give and take but there are times when you must give more. And that is the case during a pregnancy. Consider it as a good investment in the future because experiencing and living a pregnancy together is a guarantee for a great time now and a beautiful, harmonious birth later.
Brother / Sister Now you can really see that there's something growing in Mommy's tummy. At night when she sits on the couch, you can see it especially well. Mommy says the baby is moving a lot already, but you don't notice that. Lost in thought she can rub her belly and then doesn't answer if you guys ask something. "You guys have to be grown-up," says Mommy "and soon you'll need to help me a lot, because when the baby is here, Papa and Mama will be very busy". Now, we'll see about that. All you can do is wait.
The baby is now the same size as Lisa's doll. That makes it easier to picture him. You play more often with the dolls and bears and then pretend that the small doll is the baby. You have also come up with a name for the baby: Timmy, he must be called Timmy. You have also drawn Timmy already. Papa and Mama were very happy with the drawings. They did something sneaky with them and you never got the drawings back. What in the world are they planning to do with them...
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