20 Weeks Gestation

20 Weeks Gestation

• Some experts have concluded that the unborn child is probably able to feel pain.
• The skin becomes less transparent as fat begins to deposit.
• Eyebrows and lashes appear.
• Breathing-like movements become regular and are detected by ultrasound, but the lungs have not developed enough to permit survival if birth occurs.
• The unborn child turns its entire body side to side and front to back.
• The length is about 6 to 7 inches.