Your Body:
During this month you may suffer nausea and constipation, wee a lot as your bladder becomes crowded with the growing uterus, feel tired and your tummy may thicken and feel pregnant. After all, the hormones are changing to grow the foetus and the placenta, that’s the body’s main focus now!

Your Baby:
The foetus changes from a cellular prawn shape into a tiny human with ears and hands, eyelids ,nose, and the heart completely formed and pumping away, and the internal girl and boy bits forming. It has begun a tiny exercise regime you won’t feel yet. The head is big in comparison to the rest of the foetus, the uterus now the size of an orange and the foetus weighing about 18 gms by week 12.

Meet and greet your midwife

• Meet the midwife who will work in partnership with you throughout your pregnancy, birth and the 6 week postnatal period.
• This is a 1 hour introductory session in our tranquil setting, where your midwife takes your medical and pregnancy history and you discuss your expectations,and plan your care.
• You will receive you own Pregnancy Careplan booklet (which you need to have at each antenatal visit ). It contains the antenatal physical observations taken by your midwife such as blood pressure and fundal height, as well as the growth, position and heart rate of your baby. Test results and ultrasound reports are also recorded.
• Hereafter we’ll meet every 4 weeks, more often later. (If we began week 8, we’ll meet week 12.)
• Participation in the antenatal Circle of Care group begins at the next session