My Baby's Growth

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Fetal development - month 5

Second trimester
At the end of 5 months:

• Baby is 8 to 10 inches long.
• Weight is about 1 pound.
• Hair begins to grow on baby’s head.
• Soft woolly hair called lanugo covers baby’s body. Some may remain until a week after birth when it is shed.
• Mother begins to feel fetal movement.
• Internal organs are maturing.
• Eyebrows, eyelids and eyelashes appear.