Second trimester of pregnancy

Your baby is about the size of a grapefruit! Have you felt her move or kick yet? If not, you should be able to in the next weeks! Read more about this exciting time.

Though your baby is planted deep inside you, this is the week where everything gets set up for his sense of smell. Read more about this week.

If you could see inside yourself and watch your growing baby, you would see him sucking his thumb! He has finally managed to get to his mouth. Read more about this week.

Your little one now weighs around 150g and is looking more and more like a “real” baby every day. Read more about this week.

Lots of leaps and bounds happening in week 18, from nerve cells multiplying to the beginnings of fingerprints. Read more about this week.

Your little lodger weighs around 335g now – weigh a grapefruit in your hand and that’s about how heavy she is. And just as juicy! Read more about this week.  

There’s so much going on in your belly this week that you may want to take a little nap after reading about it! Read more about this week.

Though the baby now weighs around 400gms, your little darling still has plenty of room in your belly. And likes to use it when not asleep! Read more about this week.

If you could look inside, you’d see your baby sucking her thumb, her sucking reflex practically perfected now. It’s nature’s way of getting her to breastfeed from birth.

Your baby is now 29cm long from head to toe and weighs considerably over 550g. You have got around 16 more weeks to go! Read more about this week.

Can you feel the baby reacting to noises and your caresses yet? Towards the end of the second trimester is when that starts to happen, so be on the lookout. Read more about this week.

Two more weeks left of the second trimester. You are gearing up for the home stretch. Your baby’s sense of touch is starting to blossom. Read more about how to help feed it.

A little ta-da moment for the final week of your second trimester – your baby will open her eyes for the first time around now! Read more about this week.

Your baby still has some growing to do but as of today, he’s big enough laying down to fit on your forearm between your hand and your elbow. Read more about this week.