Your baby is really starting to look like a baby now! Now the fetus's senses are becoming more defined with taste buds being complete. Additionally, the nerve endings have been developed enough at this point for the fetus to feel things using her hands. If you could watch, you would see more movement and even to the extent of feeling other parts of her body. The baby has complete eyebrows and eyelids now.

Some other facts include:

• Your baby weighs close to a pound at this point!
• Your baby can now hear your conversations more clearly than before!. When you talk, read, or sing, expect her to hear you. Studies have found that newborns will suck more vigorously when read to from a book they heard frequently in utero.
• Eyelids and eyebrows are fully formed.
• Fingernails have grown to the end of the fingers.
• Be prepared for all those "Why" questions coming! Your baby's brain has entered a stage of rapid growth, especially in what's called the germinal matrix. This structure deep in the middle of the brain serves as a kind of factory for brain cells and disappears shortly before birth. But the brain's amazing expansion program continues until around the fifth birthday.
• With some help from mom, baby's liver is starting to break down bilirubin, a substance produced by red blood cells.
• Length is 10.94 inches (27.8cm); weight is nearly 1 pound (430gm).

With 22 weeks down and 18 more to go, it's time to start thinking about labor and delivery. Check out this signs of labor article to learn the ins and outs (and do's and don'ts) of the birthing process.

Sources:
[University of Pennsylvania Health Center]
[Pregancy.org]