4 Weeks Pregnant - Week-by-week guide (2024)

FAQs

How pregnant should I feel at 4 weeks? ›

Early pregnancy symptoms (at 4 weeks)

a missed period (often one of the first signs of pregnancy) a metallic taste in your mouth. sore breasts. nausea – also known as morning sickness, although you can experience it at any time (read about morning sickness in week 6)

Week 4 of pregnancy

For example, a fertilised egg may have implanted in your womb just 2 weeks ago, but if the first day of your last period was 4 weeks ago, this means you're officially four weeks pregnant! Pregnancy normally lasts from 37 weeks to 42 weeks from the first day of your last period.

Still, slight bloating around your abdomen may accompany your pregnancy at four weeks, so you might notice what appears to be a small belly. Just know that, typically, a baby bump doesn't usually show until around weeks 12 to 16, when your uterus starts to move outside your pelvis area.

Overview. By the time you're 4 weeks pregnant, you can usually get a clear positive on a urine pregnancy test. It's a funny thing, but your egg may have only been fertilized in the last two weeks. Still, the dating for pregnancy begins with the start of your last menstrual period.

During this time, the embryo continues to implant in your uterus and buries itself deep into your endometrium, which is the layer of tissue that lines the uterus. As a result, you might feel slight cramping and may even experience some spotting.

At the end of the 4th week of gestation, the heartbeats of the embryo begin. The heart, whose development starts at the 3rd week of gestation, has rapid and irregular contractions capable of pumping the blood inside the vessels.

When does your belly start feeling hard during pregnancy? This varies, but your belly usually starts feeling hard during your second or third trimester. As your uterus grows, it eventually pushes against your abdominal wall, making your abdomen feel firm.

Getting pregnant timeline

With a typical 28-day cycle, your ovary releases an egg on day 14. It lives 24 hours or less. If it gets fertilized, it takes another 5-6 days to travel through your fallopian tube and implant itself in your uterus. You're officially pregnant on about day 21.

Other women might show early because of their age. Older women and women who have been pregnant before can show as early as the first trimester. Also, women who don't have strong core muscles may show earlier because their muscles are relaxed. Their stomach adapts more easily to looking pregnant.

The do's during the first trimester of pregnancy include getting prenatal care and maintaining your health, rest and mental health; the don't include drinking alcohol, smoking, using drugs, eating dangerous foods and engaging in risky behaviors.

Can I be 5 weeks pregnant and still test negative? ›

Pregnancy tests can sometimes give a false negative result to women several weeks into their pregnancies, according to research by Ann Gronowski, PhD, a professor of pathology and immunology at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

In weeks 4 to 5 of early pregnancy, the embryo grows and develops within the lining of your womb. The outer cells reach out to form links with your blood supply. The inner cells form into 2, and then later into 3 layers.

The embryo continues to implant in your uterus, burying itself deep within the endometrium. Some women have slight cramping and spotting during this week while implantation happens. They might mistake this for a period, especially because this is around the time their monthly period was due.

Your unborn baby will begin moving around 12 weeks of pregnancy, but you probably won't feel it yet. If you've been pregnant before, you may sense quickening by about 16 weeks in pregnancy. However, if this is your first baby, it's common not to feel movement until 20 weeks.

This normal early pregnancy cramping usually lasts from a few minutes to a few hours. The cramps are usually mild and may lessen with position changes. In most cases, there's no immediate cause for concern if the crampy pain you feel isn't severe, one-sided, or accompanied by bleeding.