Category: 2nd Trimester of Pregnancy

27 Weeks Pregnant

27 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

At 27 weeks pregnant, the weight of your baby is somewhere around 1 kilogram. Your baby may be lying at transverse or even bottom-down position at this point. From now on, your baby will take a usual head-down position at any time in a preparation of labor. Normally, your baby takes this position in the [...]

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26 Weeks Pregnant

26 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

At 26 weeks pregnant, your baby is viable now, this will certainly be an encouraging fact for you. In order to boost up the growth of the right brain spatial skills, you can play classical music from now onwards. The good spatial skills will make your baby good at sports. Although, your baby has a [...]

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25 Weeks Pregnant

25 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

You have successfully passed the six months of pregnancy. All the hard work has been done already and your baby is growing and maturing quickly. It is a good time to sing same songs or nursery rhymes to your baby daily. This will help the growth of two halves of baby’s brain, particularly to form [...]

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24 Weeks Pregnant

24 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

In many countries, the 24 week old baby in uterus is considered capable of living (viable) as an individual. However, if the baby born prematurely at 24th week, she needs to be kept in special-care baby unit under medical attention and of course on ventilator for breathing as her lungs are yet not developed completely. [...]

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23 Weeks Pregnant

23 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

At 23 weeks pregnant, if your partner tries to listen to your baby’s heartbeat by putting his ear on your bulge, he can easily listen to it. Also, he can feel the slightest of movements from your baby in the uterus. This is no doubt a great feeling for him and a good way to [...]

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22 Weeks Pregnant

22 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

At 22 weeks pregnant, your baby will now grow to the size of large banana and is big enough to hold in the palm of a hand. The position of your baby is determined by your midwife by touching or feeling your abdomen. Although, it is too early to determine the position of your baby [...]

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21 Weeks Pregnant

21 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

At 21 weeks pregnant, you will find your baby a smaller version of what she will look at time of birth. There may be developed some discernable family features by this point. Despite the fact that she will not be able to take her first birth until the time of birth, she keeps on practicing [...]

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20 Weeks Pregnant

20 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

At 20 weeks pregnant, you will have a baby about half the length of full-term baby. Your baby has a size of a small mango at this stage and weighs around 300 grams or 10.6 oz. The development and growth of your baby slows down from this point onwards and those fat deposits will result [...]

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19 Weeks Pregnant

19 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

With each passing week, your baby is becoming familiar with the external world. At 19 weeks pregnant, she is now able to give response to different factors such as sound, movement, touch/tapping of abdomen and bright light. At this stage, the large and sharp sounds may cause your baby to move around in the uterus [...]

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18 Weeks Pregnant

18 Weeks Pregnant

| September 10, 2011 | 1 Comment

At 18 weeks pregnant, almost all the organs are developed. However, all these organs are not yet mature enough to face the harshness of the external world. The movements of your baby will become more obvious now. You may notice that your baby movements are more frequent when you are resting and during working hours, [...]

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