Week by week / Second trimester
Week 19
Your baby is about the size of a mango. Here is what is happening, what you might feel, and the two or three things worth doing this week.
Size right now
A mango
15.3 cm / 6 in, 240 g / 8 oz
- Length
- 15.3 cm / 6 in
- Weight
- 240 g / 8 oz
- Trimester
- Second
- To go
- 21 weeks
The baby
Vernix, a waxy white coating, forms to protect the skin from the amniotic fluid. The morphology scan is typically at 19 weeks.
You
Leg cramps at night start for many people around now.
This week
Morphology scan is around now, it takes about 45 minutes so allow the time
If you want to know the sex, say so at the start of the scan, not the end
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