Lifestyle and home remedies. Over-the-counter medications â such as acetaminophen (Tylenol, others), ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin IB, others) and naproxen (Aleve, others) â may help ease knee pain.
What a difference a week makes! This week, a sonographer can see your baby via ultrasound as a tiny white image tucked within the gestational sac. And his heart is beating! For these first few weeks in your baby-to-be's development, he'll be nourished by the yolk sac. The yolk sac provides all the nutrients the embryo needs and produces blood cells until the placenta fully forms later in the pregnancy.
The fetus grows at a minimum rate of 15 g/kg/day during mid-trimester and down to 10 g/kg/day at term. The water content drops from about 90% at 24 weeks of gestation to about 75% at term.