12 weeks pregnant

Welcome to your second trimester! Your raging hormones could be calming down a bit and you may also notice your nausea tapering off. Most women happily wave good-bye to morning sickness around now (although queasiness can return periodically throughout pregnancy). Many women enjoy pregnancy much more in this trimester — early symptoms fade and the risk of miscarriage drops dramatically.

Your baby has entered what is known as the fetal period, when tissues and organs rapidly grow and mature. Your baby's face is beginning to look more human, even though he is only about 2 inches/5.5cms long from crown to rump and weighs slightly less than half an ounce/ 14 grams. The eyes, which started out on the sides of the head, have moved closer together. The ears are almost in their normal position on the side of the head. The liver is making bile and the kidneys are secreting urine in the bladder. The fetus squirms if your abdomen is prodded, although you cannot yet feel movement. Fetal nerve cells have been multiplying rapidly and synapses are forming. The fetus has acquired more reflexes: touching the palms makes the fingers close, touching the soles of the feet makes the toes curl down and touching the eyelids makes the eye muscles clench