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18 Weeks Pregnant


Your lady is 18 weeks pregnant (so are you buddy). Listen up! You’ll soon learn why…

What Can You Expect?

  • Baby at 18 Weeks
  • Size of Baby at 18 Weeks
  • Mom at 18 Weeks (Pregnancy Symptoms and What to Expect)
  • Dad at 18 Weeks (Tips and What you Should be Doing)

Baby at 18 Weeks Pregnant

Your baby’s ears are finally in position, and he may even be able to hear you! However, you’ll be competing with all the sounds of your partner’s body noises.

Sing loudly! Baby’s nervous system is continuing to develop. They grow up so fast!

Size of Baby at 18 Weeks Pregnant

Mom at 18 Weeks Pregnant

Your partner may be craving strange things right now (like pickle juice or honey mustard by itself).

Indulge them, AND continue to steer her towards healthy snacks and foods as well as water, water, water. Make sure she’s staying active–that goes for you too!

Go on walks around the neighborhood, have some sex, search YouTube for pregnancy workouts. Make Richard Simmons proud.

Take on a new role this week and keep a list; write things down, as your partner will be forgetful and suffering from “pregnancy brain”. You won’t have that excuse.

Pregnancy Tips for Dad at 18 Weeks

You may be feeling a bit neglected right now. Your partner is very focused on all things baby.

But, don’t be! That’s just how things are right now.

Instead, help out where you can. Give her a massage when she’s uncomfortable (which is much of the time nowadays). And, by all means, keep telling her how good she looks.

If you keep it up, you may get rewarded with the same activity that led to this baby in the first place.

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