MOTHER:
You are enjoying feeling better than you did last month.
- Because your placenta has taken over the production of the pregnancy hormones, you may feel a bit better in the second trimester.
- Some women will begin to have their bellies show at this point, though most women do not yet need maternity clothes.
- Because of the extra blood volume, your body needs during pregnancy, your heart will be beating more rapidly.
BABY:
- Your baby’s heartbeat may now be audible through an instrument called a doppler.
- The fingers and toes are well-defined. Eyelids, eyebrows, eyelashes, nails, and hair are formed.
- Teeth and bones become denser.
- Your baby can even suck his or her thumb, yawn, stretch, and make faces.
- The nervous system is starting to function. The reproductive organs and genitalia are now fully developed
- Fetus is 7 – 8 cm in length and weighs about