About half way!<\/strong><\/p>\n Another milestone: you are now more than halfway through your pregnancy. Your baby is currently growing about sixty grams per week. He or she still has plenty of room in your belly and seems to be having a great time. So it is possible that you feel him or her above one time, below another, and on the side of your belly a third time.<\/p>\n At this point, the uterus has already stretched quite far upwards and reaches your navel. Each time, the midwife checks whether your child is growing well. There is a handy calculation for that: the number of centimeters the uterus extends above the pubic bone plus four centimeters roughly corresponds to the number of weeks you are pregnant.<\/p>\n The midwife will measure your blood pressure at every check-up. Low blood pressure is harmless, but it is often bothersome for you because you can easily become dizzy. Is your blood pressure on the high side? Vroeger werd dan nog wel eens geadviseerd om zoutloos te gaan eten, maar nieuwe inzichten hebben ertoe geleid dat een zoutloos dieet niet meer wordt voorgeschreven. Which, incidentally, does not mean that you can start sprinkling liberally with the salt shaker. Because being moderate with salt is always healthier, even when you are not pregnant.<\/p>\n Did you know, by the way, that licorice, both salty and sweet, can give you high blood pressure? Licorice contains glyceric acid, a substance that can cause blood pressure to rise rapidly. Also try to pay a little attention to products like soup, gravy, sauces from a packet, chips, salami, or bacon.<\/p>\n By the way, it is quite possible that your taste suddenly changes during pregnancy. If you normally mainly crave sweets, you might now suddenly have an intense craving for savory things. Or the other way around, of course. They are those typical \u2018tics\u2019 that come with pregnancy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Week 21 About half way! Your baby Another milestone: you are now more than halfway through your pregnancy. Your baby…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1653,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"templates\/flex.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1806","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1806"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1806\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1807,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1806\/revisions\/1807"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/verloskundigenrotterdamwest.nl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Your baby<\/h3>\n
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