Your baby does make important strides in terms of growth during the second trimester. In addition to the development of specific organs, your baby will also begin to change in terms of the things that he is able to do. He will continue to grow and grow, and by the end of the second trimester will probably even be able to respond to your own movements, and even to the voices that he can hear from inside of your womb.

During the first weeks of the second trimester, your baby’s growth is market by specific movements. Your baby will probably start to flex her arms, flex her legs, and even begin to kick at around week thirteen or fourteen of pregnancy. You probably won’t begin to feel these first movements for a few more weeks, but rest assured your baby is on the move. Your baby may even be able to put her thumb into her mouth at this point. The meconium will also start to grow at this point. The meconium is the material that will be your baby’s first bowel movement after delivery. By the end of the second week of the second trimester, around week 14, your baby’s mouth will be completely grown.

For the next few weeks, your baby will begin to be able to make a fist. His eyes start to gro sensitive to light. His ears and eardrums are almost fully grown, and he will begin to hear. He may even be startled by loud noises. By around 2/3 the way through your second trimester, during week 20 or so, your baby will grow to about half of a pound. Growth over the next two weeks is significant and important, as he will grow to about a full pound. Her lungs will also have grown by this point, and will start to inflate and deflate.

Before the end of your second trimester, your baby will grow to around 2 pounds. His hands will have grown completely, as will his eyebrows and his eyelashes. She won’t open her eyes just yet. At this point, you can breathe something of a sigh of relief. The important growth that your baby has made during the second trimester will dramatically increase his cahnces of surviving if he should be born prematurely.

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