You’ve already felt the first movement baby - a sense of non-transferable and surprising.

The sixth month of pregnancy - baby tells her mother about the presence of light kick. If this is your first child, you feel his movement at the 20 th week, if you already eat children - for 2-3 weeks earlier.

Now you can accurately judge the status of the fetus. Too active behavior indicates anoxaemia - hypoxia. Perhaps you sitting the same place, have not been outdoors, or you have developed anemia (anemia), which is not uncommon in mid-pregnancy.

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Detect anemia help overall analysis of blood and its serum biochemical study on the iron. In fact, quite common in pregnant desire to chew chalk or lime, breathe pairs of substances with sharp smell of it is due to iron deficiency in the body. If you feel the symptoms of anemia, you should contact your doctor, who looked the results of your tests, will propose a suitable diet. Fill a need for iron nuts, beef liver, buckwheat porridge, tomato juice, pomegranates and apples (better sour, green - there is a lot more iron than other varieties), as well as other products.
Your actions

* By the beginning of the sixth month of the uterus is increasing significantly - its bottom is at 17-18 cm above bone. As the stomach is changing gait: To maintain a balance, you have to slightly tilt the body back. Take care of band that supports the stomach, legs for pregnant women (they help «unload» leg veins and avoid swell), as well as user-friendly sustainable low-heeled shoes.
* Increased hormone progesterone, as well as the pressure of growing uterus on the bladder can lead to increased urination. It is because of that limit the number of dreank fluid, it can negatively affect your health and the health of the crumbs. The liquid is very important for the growth of the fetus.
* Some 18 th - 20 th week, conducting routine ultrasound examination. Under favorable circumstances (such as crumb turn to the unit) you can learn sex of the child.

What happens to baby?

21 th week. Baby is sleeping 18-20 hours a day, while in the remaining time moves, listens, makes swallowing movements.

22 th week. Growing bones and muscles. All divisions formed digestive tract. From the mother through the placenta comes immunoglobulins, which in the first year will protect the baby from all the infections to which the parent body already has immunity.

23rd week. The development of brain, all organs are functioning in normal mode, and only slightly remain immature, though little has been trying to breathe. However, instead of air, he sag amniotic waters. But because the oxygen supplied to it through the placenta, that breathing exercises are not harming the child.

24 th week. Growth crumbs - 35 cm, weight - 600 g.