THE FACTS OF LIFE
After your Mum got pregnant
1.
At nine weeks you
could swim a mean backstroke. Your favourite technique was a little backwards
walk, leading with your head.
2.
It’s a good thing
you slowed down after the second month, or your birth weight would have been 14
tons. Let Daddy try bouncing that on his knee!
3.
Eight weeks after
fertilization, all systems were go: skeletal, nervous, digestive, circulatory
and respiratory. The only job left was to refine what you already had.
4.
At only a couple of
months you started to shake, rattle, and roll, but you were too little for Mom
to notice. By 4 or 5 months however, she swore you had a black belt in Karate.
5.
not only does
amniotic fluid make a cushy “water-bed,” but it is also full of glucose. Swallowing
the fluid was good practice for your digestive system.
6.
About half way
through the pregnancy, you had lots of nice skin but not much fat to fill it
out. That’s why premature babies look wrinkled – they need more “meat on their
bones”. The waxworks effect was caused by the vernix, a thick whitish cream
which covered your skin to protect it from the amniotic fluid.
7.
At fertilization,
each parent contributed approximately 50,000 chemical “instruction sheets” (or
genes) that determined not only what you will look like, but also your health,
talents, tastes, athletic abilities, intelligence, allergies, and more.
8.
You were either
male or female from the point of fertilization, but it took about 60 days for
parts to be recognizable. Thanks to modern science, parents can now see the sex
of their unborn with the help of an ultrasound machine by about four months. At
last, they can answer the age-old question: “What colour should we paint the
nursery?”
9.
A tobacco smoking
Mon sends nicotine, carbon monoxide, carbon acid, and wood alcohol right down
the line to her baby. Smoking two packs a day reduces a baby’s birth weight by
10% which can seriously reduce the infant’s chances of survival.
10. With modern
technology, babies as young as 22 weeks after fertilization, weighing only 14 oz.,
(about 400g) have survived premature birth. You would need a lot of medical
help, but would fight like a champion to hold on to live ( Fertilization to birth
is normally 38 weeks.)
11. During your fourth month, you grew to a grand height of 6 inches (15cm) and began to resemble your parents. At 11 weeks you had begun to develop your own unique set of fingerprints. Nobody has had or will have the same set.
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