The pancreas is kicking into gear sometime around this week, and blood vessels continue to develop in the lungs. Lung development is a Big Thing right now, since babies born around 24 weeks gestation can often survive outside the womb.
You are:
you’re so big! Are you sure it’s not twins?”
If there was one pregnancy symptom, more than morning sickness, more than swollen ankles and sciatic nerve pain, it was anxiety. Terrible, intrusive, racing-brain anxiety.
24 WEEK
Your Baby:
Is just about a foot long now?
Is still very skinny looking, with translucent skin, but this will all start changing soon.
Is officially at the edge of viability,
You are:
Will undergo the glucose screening test at some point between now and 30 weeks to check for gestational diabetes. It’s done at a routine prenatal
25 WEEK
Your Baby:
Weighs about .750kg and is 13 1/2 inches long.
Is growing more hair, with a distinctive colour and texture and everything.
You are:
Have a uterus the size of a soccer ball.
Have probably noticed a decent increase in your belly size over the past few weeks — your fundal measurements (the length between your pubic bone and the top of your uterus) grew about an inch-and-a-half in the past four weeks alone.
May start experiencing uterine contractions soon, if you haven’t already.
26 WEEK
Your Baby:
Is almost 1kg. Celebrate this milestone.
Remember those early butterfly kicks? Those have been replaced by something to a rabid mongoose flipping’ out inside a sack.
If you DO occasionally feel smaller, rhythmic movements in your belly, it’s probably your baby hiccupping. Babies actually get hiccups from late in the first trimester on, but most women don’t pick on them the second trimester or later.
All five senses are fully developed.
You are:
Are in the last and final week of the second trimester.
The end of the second trimester also marks the end of the so-called “honeymoon” phase of pregnancy, as the final three months can get awfully uncomfortable. Back and joint pain, swollen ankles, restless nights and Braxton-Hicks contractions,
You’ll gain about 1/2 inch in belly/fundal size EVERY week from this point on.
