In the second trimester of pregnancy you grow your abdomen and experience the baby’s first movements. Learn how this being has developed within you.

You have started the second trimester of pregnancy and now you will begin to notice the changes in your body, because in the first trimester, unless for nausea, vomiting and some weight loss, you will not have noticed.

The uterus or womb up to now was inside the pelvis, but it already starts to flow out into the abdomen and you begin to notice how it grows. The growth of the pregnancy is measured from the upper part of the pubis to the upper part of the uterus, and at week 20 it is located at the level of the navel (about 20 centimeters), to grow 1 centimeter per week, until reaching number 28. It will then grow to the same extent, but every two weeks, so that at the end of pregnancy is usually between 33 and 36 centimeters.

With the exit of the uterus of the pelvis, the pregnancy becomes more vulnerable to the trauma, since before it was in a protection box that were the bones of the pelvis. Therefore, from the second trimester of pregnancy you must be more careful in the activities you perform, in order to avoid bumps that can complicate gestation.

You also feel more your pregnancy because the baby begins to move at this stage. By mid-second trimester, your baby develops swallowing and sucking reflexes; That is why ultrasound looks like yawning. Thus, it swallows amniotic fluid and can distinguish between sweet and bitter tastes, which implies that some of the flavors of maternal food can reach the fetus.

Your baby now also urinates, can have hiccups and sucks finger. As of week 24, it has tactile sensations and is sensitive to the cold and heat of the food you eat. You can listen and live in an environment of vibrations, which is the time to stimulate your development with music and with the voice of Mom, the main sound in the womb.

In addition, in the second trimester of pregnancy your baby has four periods of sleep, from very deep to very shallow, begins to move the muscles of the face (gesticulate) and distinguishes contrasts of shadows, despite not seeing.