between 21 and 27 weeks your baby sense of touch is developing along with his unique fingerprints when you rub or gently press on your belly you may feel your baby squirm or a kick in response he can feel his own face now as well as anything within his reach including the umbilical cord he'll keep experimenting with and refining his sense of touch around 23 weeks your baby can swallow soon after you may notice beetle hiccups don't worry hiccups are a normal part of development and it's common for your baby to have them several times a
day his lungs are also forming millions of tiny branches called bronchioles incredibly your baby is already practicing breathing by inhaling and moving small amounts of amniotic fluid in and out of his lungs at 24 weeks the baby is capable of surviving outside the uterus with significant medical help at 27 weeks your baby's eyelids may open as a reflex but he can't see yet his lips are formed and he now has tiny taste buds on his tongue he weighs nearly two pounds and is about 14 and a half inches long now there's just one more trimester
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