FIFTEENTH WEEK OF PREGNANCY: What Happens and What to Expect
Introduction
The fifteenth week of pregnancy has arrived and, if you are here, it means that you are interested in knowing what happens in this phase of the sweet wait.
I'll start with a spoiler: your baby is about the size of an orange.
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How many months is 15 weeks of pregnancy?
If you are in your fifteenth week of pregnancy, you are experiencing the fourth month period, which goes from 13 weeks and two days to 17+4.
Fetus 15 weeks: how it grows
By the fifteenth week of pregnancy , your baby is, on average, 10 cm long from head to tail and is about the size of an orange.
Now his little heart is formed in every part.
The formation of the genitals is also complete.
Unless you and your partner have chosen to take a fetal DNA test , if you are having a normal pregnancy you will be able to discover the sex of your baby during the second ultrasound scan, the morphological scan (around 20-22 weeks).
Going into other details of growth, we cannot fail to mention the skin situation.
During the days of the fifteenth week of pregnancy, it still has a translucent appearance.
The blood vessels are then visible.
Down begins to appear on the baby's body.
Each of these tiny hairs originates from a sebaceous gland that secretes vernix caseosa, a compound essential for maintaining the fetus' electrolyte balance.