Second Trimester
Ultrasound
Ultrasound
Ultrasound is taking pictures with sound waves. The procedure is totally painless for you and the baby. Ultrasound use in order to: determine the sex of the baby, make sure everything is progressing okay, and have something extra to charge you for. At the end of the procedure they will present you with the first picture of your unborn child.
Looking at Ultrasound Pictures of Pregnancy stages
The history of ultrasound is based in the sonar that was used by the world’s navies during World War 2. After the war, researchers began experimenting with sonar to see if it could be helpful in medical diagnosis. It was first used to detect cancers and other growths that needed medical attention. It wasn’t until the 1950s that the medical community recognized that sonar could be useful to take ultrasound pictures of stages of pregnancy.
The Second Trimester
THE SECOND TRIMESTER
The second trimester of pregnancy stages starts from the 13th week to the 28th week, that is the fourth, fifth, and sixth month of your pregnancy stages. This second trimester is kind of the temporary return to near normal. What do you feel in the second trimester of your pregnancy stages? There are physical and emotional changes in your body in the second trimester of your pregnancy stages.
The fourth month
Physical
- Feeling tired and sleepy.
- Frequent urge to urinate start to decrease.
- Hiccoughs with or without pukes, with or without affluent saliva, start to decrease. But in other pregnant women the hiccoughs is still continues, and the others women just start to hiccoughs. It is different one another.
- Being constipated.
- Feeling burning stomach, dyspepsia, gas in stomach.
- Headache
- Sometimes feel dizzy and insensible, mainly if the pregnant women change her position sudden.
- Clothes densely in waist part and breast, stomach looks bigger, maybe because the puffy intestine not accretion of womb.
- The breast is still continuing bigger, but painful and swelling start to decrease.
- Growing appetite.
- Felling the ears and nose choke, sometimes nosebleed.
- Bloody gum when scrubbing tooth.
- Little swelling in foot and talus, sometimes in face and hand too.
- Hemorrhoid.
- An increased vaginal discharge without any soreness or irritation.
- The moving of the baby show at the end of the fourth month ( usually this is not the first pregnancy)
Emotional
- Fluidity like menstruation syndrome, such as easy to angry, heart ambience that is often changes, not rationale, mushy.
- Feeling happy, nervous, elation when you begin feeling that you are pregnant.
- Frustration, when you don’t feel that you are pregnant surely, but your body has too big to wear the clothes that you usually wears, but too little to pregnant clothes.
- Addlebrained sensibility. Beginning absent-minded, bring down things, your mind incoherent, difficult to focus attention.
How’s the baby growing in the fourth month?
In the last fourth month, the length of fetus is 10 cm, now the fetus can take the nutrition by placenta, reflexive stroke (such as: take the finger in mouth and suck) is beginning growing. The seed of teeth begin appear. The fingers and foot appear greater. Though like as a human but the baby still can’t out of sustainable live out of the womb.
