Pregnancy pictures week by week: Week 15
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Your baby
Now you're in the second trimester and baby can move hands, clench fists and yawn. Baby often starts to suck its thumb at this stage.
The foetus weighs around 50-70g and is the size of a baby sweetcorn. The baby's hair pattern is also developing and the heart is now pumping around 25 litres of blood a day - this increases to 300 by time it's born.
You
By now, you should have been offered tests for Down's syndrome or spina bifida - talk to your midwife if you haven't.
You will probably have gained around 2-4kg in weight by now, although it won't really show.
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