Week by week pregnancy guide: You and your baby at Week 25

How Big is Your Baby?

Your Baby’s Development

In this week by week pregnancy guide, you’ll learn that:

• Your baby’s movements will become routine. He will play for a bit and then rest to recover.
• He is also able to hear and distinguish your voice by now. He may even respond to it when he is awake.
• His skin is now turning pink because he is forming small blood vessels called capillaries under the skin, and these are filling up with blood.
• He will go through his first bowel movement this week, but it will not come out until after he is born.

Pregnancy Symptoms

• Your bump, which now looks like a soccer ball, may cause lower-back pain.
• You are experiencing other body aches such as hip and leg pain.
• You may feel itchy veins your the rectum. It happens because the bigger uterus is pushing down and increasing blood flow in that area.
• You feel constipated. Irregular bowel movements can cause piles, so increase your fluid intake and drink enough water.

 Pregnancy Care

• Keep body aches at bay by walking and performing Kegel exercises. Yoga and step aerobics are worth trying as well.
• Here is what to watch out for in this week by week pregnancy guide: if you gained weight rapidly or feel bloated due to gas and acidity during the second trimester, visit the doctor immediately.

The Checklist

• Set up an antenatal appointment. Your doctor or the midwife will measure the size of your uterus, measure your blood pressure, and take a urine sample to test for gestational diabetes and lack of proteins in the body.
• Download our birth plan checklist here.

Your next week: 26 weeks pregnant

Your previous week: 24 weeks pregnant

Do you have questions on this week by week pregnancy guide? What are your current concerns, mums? Leave us a comment below!