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 placenta develops throughout the embryonic period and during the first several weeks of the fetal period; placentation is complete by weeks 14â16. As a fully developed organ, the placenta provides nutrition and excretion, respiration, and endocrine function ([link] and [link]).