Certain changes take place to your body during pregnancy. By definition, pregnancy is all about ways that your body changes in order to grow and accommodate an entirely new person. While some of the biggest changes to your body take place during the third trimester of pregnancy, there still are quite a few changes that take place to your body during the second trimester of pregnancy. The good news is that the changes to your body that take place during the second trimester tend to be less severe than the changes to your body that will come later.

The most exciting change to your body that will take place during the second trimester is that you will begin to be able to feel your baby moving. This typically will occur sometime between the 18th and 22nd week of pregnancy, although it may occur earlier for some women, or for women who have previously been pregnant. These first movements will be relatively mild, feeling almost like a tickle or a flutter at first, but as time goes on during the second trimester these sensations will become more and more pronounced.

Another exciting change that takes place in your body during the second trimester is the cessation of morning sickness. While 70% of women experience morning sickness, very few women report having morning sickness much after the start of the second trimester. For many of them, morning sickness actually will stop during the first trimester. This is because the hormone levels in your body have started to level out during the second trimester, and you have become much more accustomed to your heightened and sensitive sense of smell.

Finally, during the second trimester your body will change in that you will have a much more steady pattern of weight gain than you did during the first trimester. You will gain right around a pound a week at the beginning of the second trimester, and this will slowly and steadily increase so that you are regularly gaining somewhere between one and a half pounds and two pounds during the ending weeks of your second trimester. This pattern of growth will continue throughout the third trimester, pretty much right up until delivery.

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