In this video some mums describe how they felt during the second trimester of pregnancy. A midwife says nausea and tiredness might ease. Women will look more pregnant and feel that the pregnancy is really happening. One dad says seeing his partner’s belly helped him start forming an attachment to the baby.
Physical changes:
Professor Hannah Dahlen: The nausea, generally, eases off. The sense of tiredness can ease. Women often feel much better and they feel much more pregnant. Women seem to start to feel quite glowing and generally it’s probably the most healthy and wellest period in pregnancy.
Physical symptoms that you might need to go and seek help about are, for example, if you have severe headaches or if you have spots in front of your eyes; if you suddenly get a lot of swelling; important to make sure that your blood pressure hasn’t gone up; any bleeding, again, you should seek help with. But other than that all the general aches and pains that you get during pregnancy are usually quite normal.
Emotional and thinking changes:
Professor Hannah Dahlen: During the second trimester there’s, I guess, what we call a settling-into-it. You’re starting to look pregnant, you’re starting to feel less sick, you’re starting to feel less tired, you’ve usually come to terms with it, it’s a time when often you will have an ultrasound done that will tell you that everything’s okay with the baby, so you tend to relax into it and start to really think about becoming a mum, and society out there is starting to recognise you’re pregnant and they’re reinforcing it.
It’s really important that men also find that support. So they may be in an environment where nobody has children; none of their siblings may have had children. So it’s important, also, for dads to get that support and that network.
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