Now that your baby is growing rapidly, your pregnancy is also becoming increasingly obvious to others. Maternity clothes may be a must now. Some women try and get by for a while by not buttoning or zipping their jeans and pants all the way. Wearing the right clothes is only going to increase your comfort. If you have had a previous pregnancy, your skin and muscles have stretched to accommodate your uterus, placenta and baby, causing them to change permanently. This time round, your skin and muscles may give way faster to accommodate your growing uterus and baby; this implies that you may show sooner and feel bigger comparatively.

If you had spent most of your first trimester feeling tired and queasy, it is safe to assume your sexual life must have been affected as well. You may find yourself feeling better and your energy levels rebounding during this trimester, thereby causing an upsurge in your sexual feelings as well. Many women's sexual interest during pregnancy has been likened to the bell curve, with desire decreasing in the first trimester, rebounding during the second, and declining again during the final phase. Of course not all women experience this 'classic pattern' so don't feel bad if your entire nine months you feel no inclination towards sex. What is important is that you communicate your thoughts and feelings to your partner and he accepts it. The issue is that the two of you negotiate some sort of sexual truce for the months ahead so that no one ends up feeling hurt or angry.