Your Baby:
Second Trimester

• By month six... • Hair and fingernails start to appear and grow.     • Baby is putting on fat and the internal organs are maturing.       • Real hair has grown in a bit.       • A regular sleep cycle starts to occur.

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our baby has had a busy first trimester and things aren’t slowing down in the second trimester. You’ll start to actually “look” pregnant this trimester and hopefully feel less of any nausea that you might have felt during the past few months.

HOW YOUR BABY IS GROWING: FOURTH MONTH
HOW YOUR BABY IS GROWING: FIFTH MONTH
HOW YOUR BABY IS GROWING: SIXTH MONTH

HOW YOUR BABY IS GROWING: FOURTH MONTH

Your baby is moving, sleeping, kicking, swallowing, and passing urine. If you want to find out your baby’s gender (and haven’t already found out via CVS), an ultrasound or amniocentesis this month can tell you if you’re having a boy or girl.

By the end of the fourth month, your little one will be between 8-10 inches long and weigh between 5-6 ounces.

What’s happening this month:

• The placenta is fully formed.
• You baby’s teeth have formed in his/her gums.
• The eyebrows, eyelashes, scalp hair and fingernails start to appear.
• The roof of the mouth is fully formed and your baby can now swallow.
• The neck is formed.
• The outer ear begins to develop as the ears continue to move to their final position.
• Although you won’t be able to feel them, your baby’s arms will start to lengthen and move.
• The sucking reflex develops and your baby may even begin sucking his/her thumb.
• Meconium (your baby’s first solid waste) is developing in your baby’s intestinal tract.
• The skeletal system continues to develop.
• His/her eyes become sensitive to light.
• If you’re having a girl, she is already forming her lifetime supply of eggs. (It’s unbelievable to think that your grandchildren are already in her ovaries!)