If you’d like, or if your physician recommends that you do so, you can keep a “kick chart” that will track your baby’s movements. So if you’re afraid of something, talk about it.īetween the 24th and 28th weeks, fetal movement becomes more consistent and expectant mothers can keep track of fetal activity. Good communication with your partner, family and healthcare professionals can help alleviate your fears. Because this is a very sensitive and emotional time, it’s important to be aware of your feelings and not bottle them up. Your uterus has grown to the height of your belly button, and you should now be able to feel your baby moving around inside. It can also open and close its eyes, and blink. The baby is becoming very active, and kicks. A thick coating, called vemix, covers and protects the baby’s skin. It has begun to grow hair on its head and its eyebrows and eyelashes begin to appear. You may also be asleep when your baby is most active – as many babies are at their peak of activity in the middle of the night.īy the end of the fifth month, the fetus may be eight to 10 inches long and weigh between a half-pound and one pound. The position of the fetus and your own activity can make your baby’s movements indiscernible. As your pregnancy progresses, your baby will be moving almost continuously, although you won’t feel every movement. In addition, a miscalculated due date can also make it appear as if the first movements are coming earlier in the pregnancy than normal. Women who have had a baby before and recognize the sensation of fetal movement or women who are very thin may feel their baby’s first movement earlier than 18 weeks into their pregnancy. Some first-time mothers mistake the first sensations of fetal movement for a gas bubble. Others describe it as a bumping or nudging, a twitch, a growling stomach or a bubble bursting. Some women say it feels like a flutter in their lower abdomen or butterflies in their stomach. It’s difficult to explain to a first-time mother exactly what she can expect to feel. This is called “quickening,” and is the beginning of what may be one of the greatest sources of joy during your pregnancy. Sometime between 18 and 22 weeks, you’ll begin to feel your baby move. Your belly is probably beginning to show now and you will probably need to switch to maternity clothes and larger bras. In weeks 13 to 16, your appetite will likely increase as morning sickness subsides. The baby can move all its arm and leg joints. Its head may appear very large compared to the rest of its body and account for half the baby’s total length. In the second trimester of pregnancy, the fetus should now weigh about four to six ounces and be about four-and-a-half inches long.
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