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Second Trimester PREGNANCY GUIDE Months 4, 5 and 6 New Beginnings AlongTheWay M OM 12 to 18 weeks During this time your body will be changing so that others will notice you are pregnant. Your breasts continue to change. You may notice a dark line forming in your skin from your upper abdomen to your pelvis. You may need to start wearing maternity clothes. Some mothers wonder if they are “going crazy” because they can’t remember things. Having trouble thinking or forgetting things is common. Your baby’s heart beat can be heard through your abdomen. Your doctor or midwife will be listening each visit. Most of the early pregnancy discomforts will start going away during this time. 19 to 22 weeks You will start to feel movement of your baby between 16 and 22 weeks. These movements may start as flutters and then feel stronger. The first clear movements are known as “quickening.” Your breasts are making “colostrum” at this time. This is a clear or yellowish fluid that may leak from your nipples. 23 to 28 weeks This is when you and others may see even more changes in your body. Your baby is growing in size and your belly is clearly growing in size because of this. The fundus (top of your uterus) will be above your belly button. Your feet and ankles may seem “puffy” at the end of the day. You may feel sharp pains below your belly button and off to one side. This can happen when you roll over in bed or stand up quickly. These are the ligaments attached to the outside of your uterus and pelvis tightening up. The ligaments try to keep your uterus from moving in your abdomen. Other changes in your body may become a challenge to deal with. (See the insert with this guide for more information.) You will feel your baby move most of the time. Movements may feel low or high in your abdomen depending on the position of your baby. You may feel like you are “hot” no matter what the temperature is. I MPORTANT T HINGS TO K NOW Braxton Hicks Contractions: The uterus is a muscle. Muscles are made to move (get tight then get soft). When the uterus tightens it is called a contraction. You have contractions as soon as you get pregnant. Most women don’t feel contractions until the 6th or 7th month. These “Braxton Hicks” contractions during pregnancy are normal. They keep the uterus strong. Colostrum: The first milk made by the breast. This milk is yellowish and may leak from the breast during pregnancy. Doula: A person trained to help a mother and her partner during labor and birth. She can help with ideas for dealing with pain in labor. A doula can help with massage, breathing and encouragement. She will show the partner how to help 19 the mother. (See www.dona.org for more information.) Fundus: The top of the uterus. As your baby grows, your uterus gets bigger. Your care provider can feel your uterus through your abdomen. They will measure the size of the uterus by measuring from the pubic bone to the top of the uterus (fundus). Genes/Genetics: Genes are the instructions that tell our bodies how to grow and develop properly (the way they are supposed to). For example, they tell us what our eye color will be and how tall we will be. Sometimes a mistake can happen in those instructions that might cause a problem or birth defect. Some of these problems can be passed in the genes you get from your parents. Other problems can happen by chance. High Risk Pregnancy: Some women have health problems before they get pregnant. Others have problems that start after they become pregnant. The problem could mean the doctor will need to watch you and your baby more closely. You may need to see a doctor who has special training (Maternal Fetal Medicine Specialist). Indigestion “Heartburn”: When the food and fluids of the stomach back up into the esophagus (the tube from your mouth to your stomach). This may burn or feel like a lot of pressure in your chest and neck.
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