|
|
 |
|
WOMEN'S & CHILDREN'S | Family Maternity Center | Pregnancy Resource Center | Pregnancy Library | Baby Development | Your Growing Baby: Month Five - Rocking and rolling
Your Growing Baby: Month Five - Rocking and rolling
You're probably feeling plenty of movement by now; enough to keep you awake at times. The fetus can turn from side to side or even head over heels. Movement will continue to increase over the next 10 weeks, until the fetus grows to the point where he runs out of room. By now the fetus has developed a regular cycle of waking and sleeping.
By the end of this month, your rapidly growing baby is 8 to 12 inches long and weighs ½ to 1 pound.- Fingernails have grown to tips of fingers.
- Skin develops a waxy protective coating called the vernix.
- Sensory development is at a peak. Nerve cells serving each of the senses-hearing, seeing, feeling, tasting, and smelling-develop their own specialized areas of the brain.
- Ovaries in baby girls already have roughly 6 million eggs-all the eggs they'll need for making babies of their own some day.
Date last reviewed: October 2002.
Back to top
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
|