5 months pregnant baby size

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In -. Month 4, 5, and 6 - fingers and toes of your baby well defined. His eyelids, eyebrows, eyelashes, nails, and formed, and and the bones become more dense. Your baby can even suck her thumb, yawn, stretch, and face makeup.

started to function at this point in. Reproductive organs and genitals are now fully developed, and your provider can look at if you have a boy or a girl. Your baby's heart rate may now be heard through a device called a Doppler.

At the end of the fourth month, your baby is about 6 inches long and weighs about 4 ounces.

began to grow in your baby's head, and lanugo, the fine soft hair, covering her shoulders, back, and temples. This hair protect your baby and usually shed at the end of the first week the baby is alive.

You are covered with a whitish coating called vernix caseosa. This "cheesy" substance, believed to protect baby skin from long exposure to, is shed before birth.

You may start to feel your baby move, because he is developing muscles and them. The first movement is called acceleration.

At the end of the fifth month of pregnancy, your baby is approximately 10 inches long and weigh from 1/2 to 1 pound.

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At the end of the sixth month, your baby is approximately 12 inches long and weighs about 2 pounds. His is reddish in color, wrinkled, and veins visible through baby's translucent skin. Baby fingers and toes visible mold. The eyelids begin to part and open.

Your baby may respond to sounds by moving or increasing, and you may notice jerking motions if a baby.

If you were born premature, the baby can survive after 23 weeks of gestation with intensive care.

SOURCE: American Pregnancy Association

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