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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (395310)	4/20/2003 12:17:58 PM
From: Jerrel Peters	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 769667

In fact nothing ressembling a human being (any spinal column or brain cells) develops until about 5-6 months. You have no clue! In just a few weeks you have a brain and spine! I can tell you are a person that has no family and is not close to anybody that does. You are greatly deceived! I can remember the times i saw each of my children in my wife's womb. I feel sick that there are people like you that feed on the dismemberment and slaughter of unborn children! If you want to keep your head in the sand and stay blind then stop reading now. If you want to learn the truth then read this and think about it often. The truth will be known in time. indiaparenting.com Here are a few weeks of truth. See the above link for the complete story. Week 1 This is normally counted from the first day of your last period. The time, from which you calculate your due date, which is nine months and seven days from this day. Well, there is nothing much to say, as your baby is about two weeks away from conception. The follicles that carry the egg will slowly begin to grow from the third day of your cycle on either or both of your ovaries. Week 3 Conception or fertilization takes place when a sperm from the male fuses with the ovum to form a single cell that ultimately becomes your baby. This cell multiplies into over a hundred cells and travels along your fallopian tube until it reaches the uterus by approximately the fourth day after fertilization. About thirty hours after fertilization, the fertilized cell divides into two, and ten hours after this it further divides into four identical cells, each getting smaller by each division. Within three days it has become sixteen in number as it continues its travel up the fallopian tube. On the fourth day the fertilized egg has multiplied into over a hundred cells and is still growing fast. The egg now has a fluid-filled centre but looks like a solid round mass as it enters the uterus. It is still invisible to the naked eye. The blastocyst, as the egg is now called, is made up of two layers that eventually become the placenta and the embryo. It floats about in the womb getting its nourishment from the secretion of glands situated in the lining of the uterus. By the end of this week, it will attach itself to the thickening lining of the womb by a process known as implantation that signals the completion of conception. Week 5 This week, the cluster of cells that had begun to look like a round, solid mass, have started to grow lengthwise and the embryo now develops a head as well as a tail end. This is the stage where the central nervous system begins to develop by forming a niche in the top layer that extends to the tail end of the embryo. The cells fold up to create a hollow neural tube that form your baby’s brain and spinal cord. Simultaneously, the beginnings of what will be the spine, ribs and abdominal muscles are being created out of developing tissue. Even though the baby’s nervous system, spine and brain are being formed, and as you know they are the major component parts, your little one is really still very little. He or she is just about one tenth of an inch. That is 2mm to be precise. But relax, you are on the right track, as I am sure your urine test will have told you by now. Week 7 The embryo is now a full-fledged fetus, which means ‘young one’. Its brain and spinal cord is almost close to completion. A sonography will clearly reveal the arms and legs with clefts at the ends that ultimately form the toes and fingers. The baby is beginning to achieve its eventual human shape even though its head is still lumpy and bent forward on the chest. The face is beginning to form but the eyes are on the side of the head and are as yet unopened but you can see the black pigmentation under the skin covering the eye- lids. The ears are also developing and you can see two holes, which will take the final shape of the nose. The mouth and jaws have taken better shape now and you can actually make out the shape of the lips, tongue and initial teeth buds. The heart has developed two more chambers and has begun to circulate blood all throughout the little one’s body that has already formed a complex network of blood cells. Your baby’s nervous system is fast developing and the fetus has begun to form a liver, kidneys, lungs, an intestine and internal sex organs. The bone cells are also beginning to develop. Week 9 Your baby is actually beginning to look like a baby now as it takes on a more mature appearance. But the head is still at an angle as it is bent forward on to the chest. The eyes are completely developed and would look real if it were not for the membrane eyelids that still form a protective cover over them. The nose has also taken shape by this stage and the hands, feet and limbs are growing quite fast. The fingers and toes too are in the process of taking their final shape. The next seven days will see the growth of a muscle that will serve to separate the chest cavity from the abdominal cavity. This is the baby’s diaphragm, or the muscle that enables your little one to breathe. Hey, it looks like the spine is making its first movements. Isn’t this exciting? And your baby seems to be trying to test the waters of the amniotic sac as he moves around a bit and kicks a few times, as if trying out his brand new muscles. Relax, we know that you can not feel a thing as yet. Well, you are not supposed to so do not worry. Your baby is still too tiny and is floating around in the amniotic fluid.