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Your pregnancy week-by-week: Week 23

Your pregnancy week by week | Your pregnancy in week 23

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You are now 23 weeks pregnant or in your 24th week if that's how you're counting it

How is my baby growing?

The baby is now 31 cm long and weighs 15.5oz.

It will be covered in a very fine soft hair called lanugo which usually disappears before birth. Blood vessels in the lungs are developing, the bones of the middle ear are beginning to harden and the fingernails are fully formed.

How are you feeling?

Your nipples may already be leaking milk. This is nothing to worried about but tell your midwife if there are any traces of blood.

How's your partner feeling? Many men feel left out at this point. Ask him if he wants to come to your next antenatal appointment so he can hear your baby's heartbeat.

He may even be able to hear it himself (it's a tiny, fast rhythmic beat) by putting his ear against your bare lower abdomen.

Top tips

Your partner is entitled to two weeks paternity leave before your baby is 8 weeks old, but he needs to tell his employer now and get it sorted out. Go to direct.gov.uk for more information.

Where to next?

- Pregnancy week-by-week home
- Help for prospective dads
- Your pregnancy week by week in 3D scan pictures
- Baby names - ideas and meanings
- Labour and birth

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By Kate Corr

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