Week 21 · Second trimester
21 weeks pregnant
Anemone
27.4 cm (10.8 in)head to heel
At about 26.7 cm from head to heel, your baby is close in length to an Anemone (~25–30 cm): a bright bloom held on one graceful stem.
This week, inside
Fine, downy lanugo is developing, along with hair and eyebrows. Your baby can also hear noises and voices beyond the womb now.
What you might be noticing
- Sleep shifting. tiredness and broken sleep can still be part of this week.
- Digestion taking its time. heartburn, bloating, or constipation may be showing up.
- Body adapting. backache, leg cramps, and feeling warmer are listed among common symptoms.
Small things that help
Let the easiest seat be yours when you can. Keep a water bottle and one small comfort item near the place you rest, and record a sound or song that belongs to this stretch of the story.
For the record
What sound, voice, or song has been part of your days this week?
Zohra asks one of these every week, and keeps your answer. A year from now it is the part people say they are most glad they wrote down.
Where this came from
Not sure you are at week 21? Work out your due date — or see every week’s size on one chart, and the rest of the second trimester.
Keep this week
Zohra draws this same flower in the app, at this same size, and keeps what you write beside it — with your bump photos, the letters, and the sounds from your appointments.
Zohra arrives on the App Store for iPhone shortly. Everything on this site is free to read now, with no account and no sign-up.