Your Guide to Being 23 Weeks Pregnant: How do you feel at 23 weeks? Your baby is still small enough to move around freely in the womb, but by this stage many have already settled into a head-down position. This is the best position for birth but if she’s still head-up, there’s plenty of time…
Your Guide to Being 22 Weeks Pregnant: How do you feel at 22 weeks? At 22 weeks, your baby now has the proportions of a newborn, although she’s still got a lot of weight to gain before the birth. Her skin still looks wrinkled because she has only one per cent body fat. Her eyes…
Your Guide to Being 21 Weeks Pregnant: Your 21 weeks pregnant… how do you feel? Your baby now has fully developed eyelids and eyebrows, and her fingernails have grown to the ends of her fingers. Her skin still looks pink and wrinkly, but is no longer translucent, because fat is being laid down underneath. Your…
Your Guide to Being 16 Weeks Pregnant: This week, your baby will start to blink. She’s growing quickly at the moment, and will double her weight in the next three weeks. Her bones are starting to ossify (harden), with the exception of her skull; these bones will stay softer until the birth, so they can…
Your Guide to Being 20 weeks Pregnant: Your halfway there! How do you feel? At 20 weeks, your baby now has perfectly formed ears and is able to hear sounds from inside and outside your body. Studies have shown that she’ll learn to distinguish your voice from other people’s long before she’s born, and be…
Your Guide to Being 15 Weeks Pregnant: At 15 weeks, the bones in your baby’s ear that are responsible for hearing are developing, and her taste buds are sprouting, too. From now on, she’ll get a flavour of whatever you eat via the amniotic fluid. One study showed that unborn babies swallow more amniotic fluid…
Your Guide to Being 14 Weeks Pregnant: How do you feel at 14 weeks? Your baby’s eyes are now in their proper position at the front of her face. Her eyelids are still tightly fused, but she’s already sensitive to light. For the first time in your pregnancy, her body is growing faster than her…
Your guide to being 13 weeks pregnant How your baby is growing Your baby is now recognisably a baby, rather than a tadpole. She’s straightening out, her eyes are moving closer together from their original wide-set position, and her intestines, which were originally formed outside her body, are now inside her abdomen. And although you…
Your Guide to Being 12 Weeks Pregnant: How your baby is growing Your baby is essentially fully formed now. Everything has appeared – right down to the tiny vocal cords! All that remains to be done now is to grow and develop. Your baby’s face is changing, as facial features shift closer to their correct…
Your Guide to Being 11 Weeks Pregnant: How your baby is growing Growth accelerates dramatically, with your baby more than doubling in size over the next month. Fingers and toes lose their webbing and bones begin to harden. Circulatory and urinary systems begin working. And organs start practising the functions they’ll need to undertake later…
