{"id":312,"date":"2011-06-06T14:56:36","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T18:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/?page_id=312"},"modified":"2024-02-11T10:48:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-11T14:48:48","slug":"fourth-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/fourth-week\/","title":{"rendered":"What to Expect in the 4th Week of Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Week 4 is when your period should be due. Yours will be strangely absent. This may give you cause to jump about the house madly and fly off the chandeliers, or you may want to sit down with a nice cup of chamomile tea and breathe very deeply. All those hormones rushing through your body will send you mad. Going bonkers is a normal symptom of pregnancy<\/a>, though, so don\u2019t panic any more than you are already.<\/p>\n

This might be the time you want to make sure you\u2019re pregnant and the best way to do that is to get a home pregnancy test<\/a> kit. This measures how much of the hormone \u2018human chorionic gonadotrophin\u2019 is in your urine and the results are 97% accurate. This can be detected on a home pregnancy test stick from the first day you miss your period, although often you may have to wait a little bit longer, until the levels of hormones inside you increase. <\/p>\n

Once you have confirmed you are pregnant, brace yourself. If you like the odd drop of wine, alas, your days of alcohol<\/a> bliss are over. If you are a smoker, it\u2019s also time for cold turkey, and you\u2019ll need to hit the \u2018how do I quit smoking\u2019 helpline. These substances can be very harmful to your baby\u2019s development, so if you have any problems with giving them up, talk to your health-care provider, who will be able to help you form a plan of action.<\/p>\n

Your baby is only a fifth of a millimetre long this week<\/a> and you wouldn\u2019t be able to see it without the aid of a magnifying glass. This tiny baby is already starting to take shape, though, and is forming miniscule vital organs in a critical period of its development. It has now changed from being a boring bunch of cells to being a cute little tadpole with a pair of eyes. You\u2019ve got a long way to go yet baby.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Week 4 is when your period should be due. Yours will be strangely absent. This may give you cause to jump about the house madly and fly off the chandeliers, or you may want to sit down with a nice cup of chamomile tea and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":962,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions\/962"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pregnanthealth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}