Second trimester

Your baby's progress - Week 13

Baby’s head is still whopping and large in comparison to her growing body, but her nose and chin are now well-defined and bones...more

Your baby's progress - Week 14

Your little womb tenant is now around the size of a lemon and could well be making his own sour facial expressions – baby...more

Your baby's progress - Week 15

Aw – so cute! So, umm, hairy. Baby is now covered in fine hair called lanugo and will be sprouting thicker hair on her head and...more

Your baby's progress - Week 16

Baby is now around the size of an avocado and it’s time to get ready for him to go through his first huge growth spurt. more

Your baby's progress - Week 17

Now around 16cm or so in length, your baby continues to grow and her four-chamber heart is now pumping as much as 24 litres of blood...more

Your baby's progress - Week 18

From now on, you need to be attuned to feeling your baby somersaulting around your tummy. more

Your baby's progress - Week 19

Baby is now around 15cm and is having a nice old time sloshing around your belly. more

Your baby's progress - Week 20

Congratulate yourself – you and baby are now 20 weeks into the pregnancy and at the half-way point. more

Your baby's progress - Week 21

Has baby given you a good kick yet? His nervous and muscular systems are finally developed enough to kick out his legs and stretch. more

Your baby's progress - Week 22

You baby could be as long as 25cm by now and her tiny fingernails will be fully formed and starting to grow. more

Your baby's progress - Week 23

Your sweet babe is starting to look a little like a red wrinkle bag right now as more and more skin grows, creating wrinkles that...more

Your baby's progress - Week 24

Now weighing around half a kilo and around 30cm from head to toe, baby is receiving oxygen through the placenta and her lungs are...more

Your baby's progress - Week 25

Does it feel like baby is punching you from inside your belly? more

Your baby's progress - Week 26

At long last your little baby could be opening her fused eyelids and taking a look around the womb. more

Your baby's progress - Week 27

Baby is becoming plumper as fat deposits under his skin and he is possibly weighing up to 1kg. more

Your baby's progress - Week 28

Your little womb-tenant will be making her presence well and truly obvious by now, and things are starting to get cramped enough...more