Your pregnancy month two

You

By week five you may be starting to feel pregnant. Pregnancy symptoms can start early on and can be unmistakable or you may not experience any symptoms at all, both are normal. Morning sickness is one of the best known pregnancy symptoms although its name is misleading as pregnancy sickness can strike at any time in the day and can range form a slight feeling of nausea at certain smells to severe vomiting.

The good news is that for most women it starts to lessen around the end of the first trimester or start of the second (weeks 12-14).There are a few things that you can do to try and help your nausea or sickness. The first is not to let yourself get hungry eat a little often. Eating a biscuit or plain piece of toast may help to settle your stomach in the mornings, some women find that ginger helps them. It also may be worth trying acupressure bands. Another major symptom of early pregnancy may be fatigue, early pregnancy can be tiring even though you do not yet look pregnant! .

Try to eat nourishing snacks regularly and if possible nap during the day. You may also start to have more mood swings. You may notice some slight changes in your breasts and nipples, you may see that tiny spots called Montgomerys tubercules become more pronounced, or may notice that the veins on your breasts are more noticeable. By week eight your uterus has already doubled in size although it is unlikely that your baby will be causing a bump yet, you may find that you need to start wearing looser clothes because of early pregnancy bloating, by the end of this month your uterus will have grown enough to begin pressing on your bladder and you may find that you are running to the bathroom more often!.

Your baby

By week five your baby is about 2mm long (about the same size as an apple seed). During the sixth week your baby becomes known as a fetus and a bag of waters is beginning to develop around it. It is also starting to develop a spine and blood vessels are forming the umbilical cord. It is also during week six that the first signs of arms and legs form in the shape of little buds.

By week six your baby has grown to be the size of a pea and by the end of week six,  indentations are forming in the head area which will become facial features and the outline of the jaw is beginning to from. By week seven your baby's heart is starting to form and by week eight is starting to beat. Also by week eight the lungs and nervous system begin early development. At this point your baby will have a tiny tail but it will soon disappear!. Around week seven your baby will begin to make its first movements although it will be many more weeks before you are aware of them.

Your baby has changed completely during this second month. It has grown from a group of cells into a recognizably human baby with all of it major organs staring to form, it has a beating heart and is already starting to move around!. By the end of week eight your baby has the start of fingers and toes and is covered in papery thin skin, a scan around now would show a visible fetus with a beating heart.