For many mums, skin colour begins to deepen. Often nipples darken by several shades (and may stay that way even after birth) you may also get a linea nigra – a brown stripe down the middle of your bump.
The flexible cartilage of your baby’s skeleton has started to harden into bone and carries on hardening during childhood.
They say the middle trimester is the best time for a holiday, once your past the sickness and before you get too big!
For some women this is the honeymoon period of pregnancy when they start to feel fantastic, have great skin, thicker hair and no morning sickness!