The glass is half filed and half empty in twentieth week of pregnancy. A long path has already been traveled and the same distance yet needs to be covered. While the barricades in pregnancy stages have taken different forms from one phase to the next, pregnancy remains a tough time to deal with. Childbirth lesson, eating healthy, drinking lot of water, exercising, petite maternity clothes and maternity body pillow can be your weapons to fight the battle.
This 21st pregnancy week is comparatively easier to the times you've already gone through or would undergo in a few weeks. These are just minor issues here and there. Nor are there any irritating very early pregnancy symptom to bother and neither is the baby fully formed as would be in the third trimester pregnancy. Around this time the only changes include mild acne issues (due to increased oil production) and aching legs due to added pressure on the veins in your legs. Both the problems can be dealt with. The former concern can be managed by washing face quite a number of times through the day and drinking water, which hopefully you anyway have been drinking in adequate amount and the latter by increasing circulation with a brisk walk. For either of the issues, please do not apply or consume any medication without doctor's prescription.
The baby in this week is about ten and a half inches long and weighs approximately about three quarters of a pound. By now the child's moves inside the womb are quite articulate and if the baby is a girl child, the vagina would be formed by now. The child also adds rapid eye movement, which is vital for baby's healthy sleep schedule in his growth chart. The little one has translucent, soft red skin and by this time of the pregnancy weekly growth, he is ready to tease you with his unexpected moves.