Second trimester · roughly month 6 · about 15 weeks to go

25 weeks pregnant

Everything Hello Belly has for week 25 — how your baby is developing, what your body is doing, and the small things that are easier to know in advance.

Your baby at 25 weeks

25–26 weeks

It seems to you that time has become eternal, but your baby uses every second for development and training. Now his lungs are ready to start breathing at any moment. Ears grew and even slightly protruded. The girl already has formed ovaries (with the future of your grandchildren inside), and the boy's testicles descend into the scrotum. So now you can get ready for a daughter or a son.

His skin is still very wrinkled from a constant stay in the liquid, but with new supplies of fat it slowly smoothes, hands and legs are becoming more round, and wrinkles appear on the elbows.

Feelings of the baby continue to develop. But now the baby's ability to feel pain has also been added to the pleasant sensations. This is reflected in his facial expression: he can smile or frown. Also, the strength of your baby grows: his muscles develop, so his flips and kicks become more tangible, and the movements get more coordinated. On ultrasound, you can see how he dexterously grabs himself by the legs, closes his face with his hands, sucks a finger, grabs the umbilical cord with hands. Already such a fine fellow, but weighs still less than a kilogram!

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Breathe with me!
You’re living your normal life (well, almost normal, except for the fact that it is harder for you to tie your shoelaces), and great changes are taking place inside of you.
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