Pregnancy and childbirth, pregnancy calendar, birth of the child, development of the child, health of children.

From the second trimester of pregnancy you feel vigorous and vigorous. Soon pregnancy becomes appreciable, and the spacious clothes are required to you. The fruit already is completely generated and from 14th week eats through a placenta. Now its growth is preparation for a life out of an organism of mother.

• Breasts, probably, for the present the former size; you will notice increase the next weeks
• At you the waist gradually smoothes out
• The stomach starts to be approximated slightly
• Birthmarks and freckles with strengthening of pigmentation of a skin can darken

Increase in weight

At this time you will type about 5-7 kg, that is 50-60 % from the general increase in the weight, pregnancy expected by the end. An optimum increase by 16 weeks: 2,5 kg.

Your kid

• Length: 16 sm
• Weight: 135 g

New sensations

The state of health should improve essentially. All of you start to test joyful excitement is more often. Change of skin pigmentation is possible - the median line of a stomach, a dummy and a skin round them will darken. These phenomena should pass soon after sorts. Appetite will increase in process of fruit growth. The usual clothes become close, however to pass to clothes for future mothers still rather early.

What to do

• Stop to smoke, if you still have not made it. Convince the husband to arrive as.
• Eat correctly and watch weight. The increased appetite - not the justification that is unhealthy food.
• Begin reception of folic acid and iron preparations if they have been appointed by the doctor and if you not toshnit.
• In female consultation to you, possibly, will suggest to make ultrasonic research and the blood analysis on AFP (alpha-fetoprotein). At the slightest suspicion on any pathology in fruit development it is spent and amniotsentez.

The kid grows

There are eyebrows and eyelashes. A body and the person are covered by a gentle down (lanugo). The skin of the baby is so thin, that through it appears through a network of blood vessels. Joints of hands and feet were formed, hardening of bones has begun. On genitals it is already possible to distinguish a floor though at ultrasonic research it is possible not always. The Thorax makes respiratory movements. He can already suck a finger. It moves much, but you, probably, still do not feel it. Heart fights twice faster, than yours. After 14th week the doctor or the nurse can hear its special stethoscope. This month the fruit quickly grows.

Confusion of feelings

And you, and your husband while you carry the child will be overwhelmed, most likely, with the most inconsistent feelings - for impetuous pleasure to deep despondency. Be ready to it. Do not become limp. After sorts all will enter into the channel.

The best way to get rid for the fears connected with the future motherhood and paternity, - frankly to discuss two of them. It is important to realise all changes occurring to you.

In that the happiness of expectation of the child is sometimes saddened by negative emotions, there is nothing unnatural. Inconveniences, interdictions, own slowness and completeness can irritate you. At times, probably, you even will be annoyed with the kid. However all it will be forgotten after its birth when you grow fond each other. And the figure is easy for restoring simple physical exercises.

For your husband the child becomes for the first time a reality when he will see it on the screen of the ultrasonic device. Before he could feel superfluous and even to be jealous of the kid a little. Now these feelings should be replaced by pleasure and excitement.

When expectation of the child is accompanied by alarm that you are yet ready to become parents, it too is quite natural. If you are frightened by forthcoming fights and childbirth - prepare for them, master a technique of breath and a relaxation of muscles: you feel more confident.

Week after a week

13 week

The beginning of the second trimester - the most pleasant period of pregnancy. Toxicosis signs disappear. The placenta (a children's place), on guard of health of the kid continues to be formed. Do not forget about reception of vitamins and walk on fresh air. The kid weighs about 28 rudiments of twenty dairy teeth Were generated.

14 week

There is a psychological sensation of pregnancy. The first extensions of a skin are already possible. The length of a fruit 12.5 see now the Pancreas starts to develop insulin. Reproductive bodies are formed.

15 week

Brown lines on a stomach, disappearing after pregnancy are sometimes formed. The reason - change of a hormonal background. On a head the kid has hair. Scientists have counted up - at this time the tiny heart "pumps over" about 23 l of blood a day! You can feel the first shevelenija a fruit.

16 week

The dream and rest laying are capable to deliver you some inconveniences. At the kid coordination of movements of hands and feet grows, has added in growth - its length already almost 16 sm, and it can open a mouth and build grimaces.