the pregnant mama: 10th Week

I'm 10weeks & 5 days today.

baby:

Fetal development in pregnancy week 10:fetus in third month Your astonishingly tiny baby has graduated from embryo to full blown fetus! And so it should be, as they've been hard at work growing as fast as possible—almost doubling in size in the past three weeks! Amazingly, you’re in for a repeat size doubling performance within the next three weeks! Your tiny champion still weighs less than a quarter of an ounce but has already completed the most critical stage of their development. Using Doppler technology, your doctor or gynecologist can let you hear their tiny rapid fetal heartbeats this week (145-165 beats per minute!). Chances for miscarriage are greatly reduced when the heartbeat can be detected, so take a sigh of relief if you’ve been needing one—it hasn’t been an easy ten weeks! What’s more, they’re getting ready to make their first baby poop! Your little one’s major organ systems are developing, including a functioning digestive tract capable of moving food all the way through their bowels. The final shiny gold star on their fetal behavior chart for the week: your little scrapper has already developed defense mechanisms to protect them on reflex!

me:
More good news for mom: the placenta has grown substantially, in both size and function. It is now beginning to manage some of your child’s hormones, finally taking some of the hormonal burden off of you! Since the placenta has gradually taken over the hormone production for your baby, you should start to notice that much-awaited decrease in morning sickness symptoms. Like everything else, though, this is just a general guideline... if you have lingering effects for another couple of weeks, don’t fret (or fret, but don't blame us)—pregnancy is not a standardized procedure so much as an individual journey

http://www.pregnancyweekly.com

baby:
Your baby is somewhere between 1 and 1-1/2 inches in length and probably weighs about 4 grams (or as much as 4 paper clips). He or she has lips, toes, eyes that are usually open, ears that are completely formed, and the genitals are becoming more clearly defined. The little pollywog you have inside has lost its "tail" and this week marks the end of the embryonic stage and the beginning of the fetal stage!

me:

You may continue to feel some morning sickness, dizziness, and fatigue, but they should all be decreasing. At 10 weeks, many women begin to see their stomachs stick out. Generally, this is due to your bowels becoming distended rather than the growth of the baby. Little by little your waistline will become less defined. This is a great time to take some photos and measurements to start documenting your body's changes in your journal.

some other article that caught my interest from pregnancyweekly.com : Pregnancy Following Miscarriage

okay.. enough on the development..

I've been searching for 'amalan semasa mengandung & hamil' .. here are some results:

- amalan-amalan yang dapat diamalkan semasa mengangdung ;

with doa :

"Dengan nama Allah yang Maha Pemurah lagi Maha Mengasihani. Ya Allah, peliharalah anakku selama di dalam kandungan dan sembuhkanlah ia, Engkau Maha Penyembuh, tiada sembuhan melainkan penawar-mu, sembuh yang tidak meninggalkan kesan buruk. Ya Allah, lahirkan ia daripada kandunganku dengan kelahiran yang mudah dan sejahtera. Ya Allah, jadikanlah ia sihat sempurna, Ya Allah, elokkanlah perangai (akhlak), fasihkanlah lidahnya dan perelokkanlah suaranya untuk membaca hadis dan al-quran dengan berkat Nabi Muhammad s.a.w".

- amalan sunat semasa mengandung

Di antara amalan-amalan yang sunat dilakukan ketika sedang hamil ialah memperbanyakkan membaca ayat-ayat Al-Qur‘an dan berdoa, sebagaimana yang diriwayatkan oleh Ibnu Sunni daripada Fatimah Radhiallahu ‘anha yang maksudnya :

“Sesungguhnya Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam apabila (Fatimah) hampir melahirkan, Rasulullah memerintahkan Ummu Salamah dan Zainab binti Jahsyin menghampir Fatimah maka Baginda membaca ayat Al-Kursi dan surah Al-‘Araf (ayat 54) di sisi Fatimah dan memohon perlindungan kepada Allah dengan membaca surah Al-Falaq dan An-Nas”.

Doa yang sunat dibaca ketika hamil itu termasuklah doa Nabi Yunus ‘alaihissalam yang tafsirnya:

“Sesungguhnya tiada Tuhan (yang dapat menolong) melainkan engkau (Ya Allah!) Maha Suci engkau (daripada melakukan aniaya, tolonglah aku!) Sesungguhnya aku adalah dari orang-orang yang menganiaya diri sendiri”.
(Surah Al-Anbiya‘: 87)

Begitu juga bagi ibu-ibu yang sukar bersalin, Ibnu Abbas meriwayatkan Rasulullah Shallallahu ‘alaihi wasallam bersabda yang maksudnya :

“Apabila seorang perempuan itu sukar bersalin, tuliskan di dalam bejana surah Al-Ahqab (ayat 35) dan surah Al-Nazi‘at (ayat 46), kemudian air itu disapukan dan diminum serta disapukan di perut dan kemaluannya”.
(Hadis riwayat Ibnu Sunni)

- amalan ketika mengandung

Di antara amalan yang sunat dilakukan ketika sedang hamil ialah dengan memperbanyakkan membaca ayat-ayat suci al-Qur'an, beristighfar dan berwirid setiap kali selepas mengerjakan sembahyang.
Di antara surah-surah yang digalakkan dibaca ialah:
a) Surah Yaasiin, kerana ia mempunyai banyak fadhilat.b) Surah Yusuf, agar mendapat anak yang saleh, sempurna dan mempunyai rupa paras yang elok.c) Surah Luqman, agar mendapat anak yang taat kepada kedua ibubapa.d) Surah Maryam.e) Surah at-Taubah.f) Surah al-Ikhlas.

Sementara wirid-wiridnya pula ialah: