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Pregnancy

15 Weeks

He is about 5 ounces and 6 to 7 inches long now.


What you can expect at this month’s checkup: This month you can expect your doctor to check the following:

  • Weight and blood pressure
  • Urine, for sugar and protein
  • Fetal heartbeat
  • Size of uterus by external palpation
  • Height of fundus (top of the uterus)
  • Hands and feet for sweelling and legs for varicose veins
  • Symptoms you’ve been experiencing, especially unsual ones
  • Questions or problems you want to discuss

    What you may be feeling: You may experience all of these symptoms at one time or another or only a few of them. You may also have other, less common symptoms.

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  • Fatigue
  • Decreased urinary frequency
  • An end to, or a decrease in nausea and vomiting
  • Constipation
  • Heartburn, indigestion
  • Continued breast enlargement but decreased tenderness and swelling
  • Occasional headaches
  • Occasional faintness or dizziness, particularly with sudden change of position
  • Nasal congestion and occasional nosebleeds, ear stuffiness
  • Bleeding gums
  • Increased in appetite
  • Mild swelling of ankles and feet and occasionally of hands and face
  • Varicose veins
  • Slight whitish vaginal discharge
  • Fetal movement near the end of the month
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