Unborn Babies Respond to Touch at Six Weeks

seven week unborn baby

“In the sixth to seventh weeks…If the area of the lips is generally stroked, the child responds by bending the upper body to one side and making quick backward motion with his arms. This is called total pattern response because it involves most of the body rather than a local part.”

LB Arey Developmental Anatomy sixth edition, Philadelphia: WB Sanders and Company 1954

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