What’s Happening With Mom?
Hello, second trimester, it’s good to see you. This month, uncomfortable first trimester symptoms like morning sickness and fatigue start to fade, your risk of miscarriage is greatly reduced, and your body is getting into the swing of being pregnant. Most women enjoy the second trimester the most, after the first trimester nausea stops, and before they get huge and uncomfortable in the third trimester.
Have you started telling people yet? This is when most pregnant women decide to announce the news, and if you don’t do it soon, your growing belly may just do it for you!
When you visit your doctor this month, you may be able to hear your baby’s heartbeat with a machine called a Doppler. Whether you can hear it or not depends on where your baby is in your uterus. If your baby is hanging out at the back, the Doppler won’t be able to detect a heartbeat until it gets stronger in the next few weeks.
Is everything feeling OK down there? This week, you might be experiencing more vaginal discharge, which is very normal. But funky smelling discharge and/or pain can indicate a vaginal infection, which are common in pregnant women, but are easily treated – see your doctor for their recommended medicine – and don’t cause any harm to your baby. Kidney and bladder infections are also very common too, but again easily treatable with antibiotics from your doctor, and no danger to baby.
What’s Happening With Baby?
Your baby’s face is becoming baby-like, with proper eyes and ears. Baby’s eyelids are fused shut to protect those delicate, developing eyes.
The bones in your baby’s skeleton are forming, and muscle and nerves to make them move too. Baby can’t wait to use them and by now is wiggling, kicking and squirming about in earnest.
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