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Month 3 (Weeks 12-16)

Your Body:

  • Morning sickness may or may not go away.
  • You may have more energy.
  • You may gain 2-3 pounds this month.
  • You may be able to feel the top of your uterus in your lower abdomen.
  • You may still urinate frequency.
  • You might be constipated at times.
  • You may be happy one minute and sad the next; mood swings.

Your Baby:

  • Your baby is still too small to really feel movement.
  • Ear, arms, hands, fingers, legs, feet, and toes will be completely formed this month.
  • Vocal cords and taste buds are formed.
  • The neck is well shaped, and the head can be held up.
  • Your baby's elbows can bend.
  • Your baby can now kick.
  • Your baby can now form fists.
  • Genital organs are well formed.
  • One cup of fluid surrounds your baby and your baby can swallow this fluid and urinate.
  • By the end of the month your baby will weigh 1/4 pound and be 2 1/4 inches long.
  • Baby's heartbeat is 120-160 beats per minute.

Your appointment:

  • Urine Test.
  • Weight.
  • Blood Pressure.
  • You will hear your baby's heartbeat this month. Either this month or next you will be offered AFP testing.

When to go to the emergency room:

  • Bad cramping.
  • Vaginal bleeding. Bleeding like a period is abnormal. Blood tinged discharge, especially after sex, is normal.
  • If you cannot keep any fluids down.