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  • Baby weighs about 2 ounces and measures slightly less than 5 inches from head to heel.
  • Fine hairs form on the head and face – upper lip, chin, eyebrows, eyelashes.
  • Baby has all essential organs and a working circulatory system.
  • Baby kicks, though mom can’t feel it yet.
  • Taste buds are present all over the mouth and tongue.
  • Endocrine system is producing wide variety of hormones.
  • Arms reach final proportion to body size.
  • Baby can find thumb and suck it (as opposed to “discovering it” when it floats up to baby’s face).
  • Baby’s entire body (except for parts of the scalp) feels and responds to light touch.