You’re reaching the end of the first trimester. Your placenta is providing your precious baby with nutrients, oxygen and waste disposal services. Your baby's eyelids are still fused together to protect the eyes as they develop. Although your baby’s sucking muscles are not completely developed yet, he might be able to actually put his thumb into his mouth! His ribs will also have begun to form.
What’s Happening To My Body?
Congratulations for succeeding in getting past the first 12 weeks! You’re entering the second trimester, which means that your risk of miscarriage now falls significantly, and the early symptoms of pregnancy such as morning sickness will begin the subside. Don’t be surprised though, if your nausea is replaced with heartburn.
You might not realize this, but at this stage, your breasts have already begun manufacturing colostrums, the rich, yellowish fluid that’s produced for your baby’s nourishment in the first few days after delivery before the actual flow of milk.
Congratulations for succeeding in getting past the first 12 weeks! You’re entering the second trimester, which means that your risk of miscarriage now falls significantly, and the early symptoms of pregnancy such as morning sickness will begin the subside. Don’t be surprised though, if your nausea is replaced with heartburn. 
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