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Second trimester
Week 14 of pregnancy
Your baby is the size of a peach. The second trimester begins: the baby makes facial expressions and fine hair covers the body.
Your baby is the size of a peach
- Length, head to bottom
- ≈ 8.7 cm
- Weight
- ≈ 43 g
Your baby this week
- The baby can frown, squint and make other facial expressions.
- Fine, soft hair called lanugo starts to cover the body and keeps it warm.
- The liver starts to make bile and the spleen helps make red blood cells.
Your body this week
- Your bump starts to show and you may need looser clothes.
- Your appetite usually comes back and tiredness eases.
- Your gums may bleed more easily and you may get the odd nosebleed, because of the extra blood.
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General information written by the mam.al editors. Every pregnancy is different and sizes are averages; it does not replace advice from your doctor or midwife. Sources include the NHS week-by-week guide to pregnancy. NHS. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.