The beginning of your second trimester is the start of lots of new development milestones for your baby.

Your baby is about the size of an apple! Have you felt your little one move or kick yet? If not, you should be able to in the next weeks!

Though your baby is growing deep inside you, this is the week where everything gets set up for their sense of hearing.

If you could see inside yourself and watch your growing baby, you might see them sucking their thumb! They have finally managed to get it to their mouth.

Your little one now weighs about 150g and is looking more and more like a “real” little person every day. Read more about this week.

Lots of leaps and bounds happening in week 18, from nerve cells multiplying to the beginnings of fingerprints. Read more about this week.

Your little lodger weighs around 260 grams – weigh a small sweet potato in your hand and that’s about how heavy they are. Read more about this week.

There’s so much going on in your belly this week that you may want to take a little nap after reading about it! Read more about this week.

Though the baby now weighs around 390g, your little darling still has plenty of room in your belly and likes to use it when not asleep! Read more about this week.

If you could look inside, you may see your baby sucking their thumb.  It’s nature’s way of getting your little one ready to breastfeed from birth. Read more about this week.

Your baby weighs almost 550g. You have got around 16 more weeks to go! Read more about this week.

Can you feel the baby reacting to noises and your belly rub yet? Towards the end of the second trimester is when some women report that this starts to happen, so be on the lookout.

At 25 weeks pregnant, your baby is the size of a medium sweet potato. They might be getting restless now, pushing with their hands and feet. Learn more.

A little ta-da moment for the final week of your second trimester – your baby will open their eyes for the first time around now! Read more about this week.