If the skin isn't as flexible (it will be in due time) then exercise could cause it to stretch quickly from increased blood flow. This quick stretch could explain the pins and needles feeling because the skin is quickly being pulled on the micro-level.
Definition. During development, most animals form a gastrula. A gastrula is an embryo that has undergone gastrulation, or the process that produces different germ layers. Germ layers are the initial tissue layers of an embryo, and animals can have up to three. 1  Ectoderm is the outermost layer of cells.
animal development: The epidermis and its outgrowths. The epidermis is only the superficial layer of the skin, which is reinforced by the dermis, a connective tissue layer of a much greater thickness. The cells of the dermis are derived from mesoderm and neural-crest cells.