Morning sickness
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First trimester
Week 8 of pregnancy
Your baby is the size of a raspberry. Fingers and toes begin to show, and the baby moves, though you cannot feel it yet.
Your baby is the size of a raspberry
- Length, head to bottom
- ≈ 1.6 cm
- Weight
- ≈ 1 g
Your baby this week
- Fingers and toes begin to form, still joined by thin webbing.
- The baby makes small movements but is far too small for you to feel them.
- The inner parts of the ear form, which will later help with hearing and balance.
- The lips, the tip of the nose and the eyelids appear.
Your body this week
- Your womb is growing and your clothes may feel tighter at the waist, even though there is no bump to see yet.
- Many women have vivid dreams and broken sleep.
- White, odourless vaginal discharge increases; this is normal.
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General information written by the mam.al editors. Every pregnancy is different and sizes are averages; it does not replace advice from your doctor or midwife. Sources include the NHS week-by-week guide to pregnancy. NHS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.