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 Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:15 pm
Since I was all too fascinated by a few sculptures about pregnancy, a lady handed me a packet about children when I was at the mall.
xD
Shame it'll come to no use for me, because i'm pro-choice, and tokophobic, and, if anything, i'm adopting.
Moving on.
ToC:
Post One: This
Post Two: Questions
Post Three: Answers
Post Four: Development
Post Five: Information (About the packet)
((If this has been posted before, feel free to move it to wherever needed))
(Also, I wouldn't take any of this in a serious matter. I'm awaiting any possible edits to be made, so... Bear with me)
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:33 pm
Questions!
1. You started swimming and doing back flips...
.a. When your mom was 6 months pregnant
.b. 9 weeks
.c. 8 months
.d. Forget the back flips, you can't even do a good belly flop!
2. If you kept growing all 9 months at the same rate as you grew during your first 2 months, you would be born as big as...
.a. The Jolly Green Giant
.b. An M-I tank
.c. A pair of overfed elephants
3. When did you most likely feel pain for the first time?
.a. When they cut your umbilical cord
.b. When your mom was 9 weeks pregnant
.c. After a big time in a cafeteria
4. By the time your mother was 8 weeks pregnant, you were...
.a. A tiny speck smaller then a period at the end of a sentence
.b. A miniature human with arms, legs, and a heartbeat
.c. A ball of cells the size of a marble
5. Your mother says you started to kick and poke her...
.a. 5 months into the pregnancy
.b. At 4 months
.c. Never mind when you started, when are you going to stop?
6. 5 months into the pregnancy you got a lot of hiccups because...
.a. Your mom was pigging out
.b. You swallowed amniotic fluid
.c. Your diaphragm was being formed
.d. You couldn't find a bag to put over your head
7. Before you were born, your skin was...
.a. As wrinkled as a California raisin
.b. As waxy as a statue from Ripley's Believe it or Not museum
.c. Both of the above
8. When did you start using your brain?
.a. When your mom was 8 months pregnant
.b. When she was 45 days pregnant
.c. If you still haven't, go to the next question
9. When was the color of your hair determined?
.a. At fertilization
.b. When she was 45 days pregnant
.c. Only your hairdresser knows for sure.
10. 5 months before you were born, your heart pumped enough blood to...
.a. Overflow a coffee mug
.b. Fill half of a tank of a compact car
.c. Fill an olympic sized swimming pool
11. When did you first start looking like a boy or girl?
.a. The seventh month of pregnancy
.b. The end of the second month
.c. When the doctor announced, 'It's a..."
12. If your mother smoked when she was pregnant, you may have been born...
.a. Overweight and overdue
.b. Underweight and premature
.c. With yellow teeth and a nagging cough
13. How premature can a baby be born, and survive?
.a. 4 weeks early
.b. 8 weeks early
.c. 16 weeks early
14. When do you begin to look like your parents?
.a. When your mother was 6 months pregnant
.b. When your mother was 4 months pregnant
.c. Who cares? Does anyone know a good plastic surgeon?
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:37 pm
Answers!
1. B
At 9 weeks you can swim a mean backstroke. Your favorite technique was a little backwards walk, leading with your head
2. C
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. B
By 9 weeks, all the structures necessary for pain sensation are functioning. You would try your hardest to avoid the source of pain.
4. B
About 8 weeks after conception, all systems were go: Skeletal, nervous, digestive, circulatory, and respiratory. The only job left was to refine them.
5. B
At only a couple of months you started to shake, rattle, and roll, but you were too little for mom to notice.. By 4/5 months, however, she swore you had a blackbelt in karate.
6. B
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.
7. C
About halfway through the pregnancy, you had lots of nice skin, but not much fat to fill it out. That's why premies look wrinkled---they need more 'meat on their bones'. The wax-works effect was caused by the vernix, a thick whitish cream which covered your skin to protect it from the amniotic fluid.
8. B
Electric brain waves have been tracked since 6 weeks. What do you think you were thinking about?
9. A
At fertilization, each parent contributed about 50,000 genes that determined what you looked like, and lots of other stuff
10. B
You were pumping 6 1/2 gallons of blood through a body about the size of your hand. It was your own blood, too!
11. B
You were either male or female from day one, but it took about 60 days for the parts to be recognizable. Thanks to modern science, parents can now see the gender around 4 months, which solves the color of the room question!
12. B
Smoking 2 packs a day reduces baby birth weight by about 10% --- That seriously reduces the chance of survival on an infant
13. C
With modern technology, babies as young as 22 weeks can survive!
14. B
During the 4th month, you get to the height of 6', and begin to resemble your parents, and, you get fingerprints around 10 weeks
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:39 pm
Month 1
When your mother's egg cell was fertilized by your father's sperm cell, the 23 chromosomes and approximately 50,000 genes from EACH PARENT, combined to determine all our physical conditions: sex; facial features; body type; color of hair, eyes and skin. Even more amazing, intelligence and personality were already in place with your genetic code. At conception, you were already essentially and uniquely 'you'.
Things:
-Conception: Sperm fertilizes egg
-Said egg implants on lining of uterus
-Mother misses her period
-Eyes are developing
-Foundation laid for brain and spinal cord
-Heart beats regularly (24 days)
-Arm and leg buds appear
-Muscles form
-1/4th inch long (10,000 times larger than fertilized egg)
Month 2
A wondrous and dynamic chain of events takes place within the womb. In the brief span of 2 months, you progressed from a single-cell to a tiny human with all the organs present and functioning. The rest of the time in the womb is devoted to refinement, growth and practice. While still in the womb, you begin to move, swallow, and breathe amniotic fluid, react to stimuli, and generally prepare yourself for 'life on the outside'
Things:
-Brain waves recorded
-Lungs forming
-Muscles work together
-Reflexes present
-Begin to move
-Skeleton formed
-Movement
-Ears and earlobes present
-Eyelids forming
-Eyelids moving
-Responds to touch
-Fingers and toes defined
-Permanent fingerprints
-Sex identifiable
Month 3
By 12 weeks, you were as cute as a button-with large eyes, a fine little nose, and a mouth, which sucked a tiny thumb. Since you were still small, and not cramped for space, you had lots of room to move. Even though your mom couldn't feel you yet, you had already perfected a backflip, somersault, and scissor kick
Things
-Suck thumb
-Able to hear
-Begins to hiccup
-Fingers can grasp
-Lungs and brain almost complete
-Eyelids close if touched
-Baby moves vigorusly
-Looks like a tiny human doll
Month 4
By the time your mom's pregnancy showed, you were already fully formed! Now all your tiny parts needed was time to grow and develop in preparation for birth
Things:
-Heart pumps 6 gallons of blood a day
-Downy hair covers body
-Mother feels baby moving
Month 5-6
Things:
-Has chance to survive out of the womb
-Fingernails and toenails present
-Mother feels baby hiccup
Month 7-9
"Birth" isn't the beginning of your life---it's just one of the many chapters in a continuing story. In fact, you'll continue to develop until around 23 years!
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Posted: Sat Feb 07, 2009 10:43 pm
COPYRIGHTS:
CALIFORNIA RIGHT TO LIFE EDUCATION FUND
PO BOX 4343
WALNUT CREEK, CA 94596-0343
www.calright2life.org
callife@calright2life.org
925-944-5351
Available in Spanish or French
(c) Copyright 1989; Revised 1997, 2004
Human Development Resource Council, Inc.
770-513-0060 (Toll free)
866-356-0859
www.hdrc.org
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:19 am
What is tokophobic?
And thank you for posting this! biggrin
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:20 am
Some of the stuff that they were talking about is technically true, but some of it is slightly exaggerated. I notice that they are a "right to life" program, and many of them seem to think that a fertilized egg counts as a "baby". So considering that I often see things that are more biased than this, it is fairly well written. I went in for an ultrasound for my pregnancy at 10 weeks (about 2 1/2 months), and the baby was moving around all wiggly like. However, by then, it was impossible to discern the bones.  I thought it was adorable and cute, though, and my husband and I were planning on keeping the pregnancy. Now again, at around 20 weeks, I got another ultrasound:  You'll see here on the top picture that the baby has developed a skull and backbone that can be readily seen on the imaging equipment. I can actually feel the baby moving around and it is an awesome feeling! The idea that a baby is "fully formed" at only a couple of weeks is total hogwash, but it *IS* true that the baby is on its way to forming most of the systems it will eventually need to survive outside the womb. After all, if everything was formed, then the baby could survive outside of the womb in the first trimester, and the earliest any baby has survived is around 20 weeks (and even then, it's usually with lots of brain damage and health problems). I loled at some of the joke answers in the pamphlet, but I still get annoyed about the idea of people misrepresenting biology.
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 2:20 pm
Nikolita What is tokophobic? And thank you for posting this! biggrin Tokophobic - Fear of Pregnancy/Giving birth And you're welcome! =D
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Posted: Sun Feb 08, 2009 2:21 pm
Oni no Tenshi Some of the stuff that they were talking about is technically true, but some of it is slightly exaggerated. I notice that they are a "right to life" program, and many of them seem to think that a fertilized egg counts as a "baby". So considering that I often see things that are more biased than this, it is fairly well written. I went in for an ultrasound for my pregnancy at 10 weeks (about 2 1/2 months), and the baby was moving around all wiggly like. However, by then, it was impossible to discern the bones. I thought it was adorable and cute, though, and my husband and I were planning on keeping the pregnancy. Now again, at around 20 weeks, I got another ultrasound: You'll see here on the top picture that the baby has developed a skull and backbone that can be readily seen on the imaging equipment. I can actually feel the baby moving around and it is an awesome feeling! The idea that a baby is "fully formed" at only a couple of weeks is total hogwash, but it *IS* true that the baby is on its way to forming most of the systems it will eventually need to survive outside the womb. After all, if everything was formed, then the baby could survive outside of the womb in the first trimester, and the earliest any baby has survived is around 20 weeks (and even then, it's usually with lots of brain damage and health problems). I loled at some of the joke answers in the pamphlet, but I still get annoyed about the idea of people misrepresenting biology. Like I said, I'm not taking it seriously, and I posted it for the curious people. xD Thanks for the imput, though.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:31 pm
Sorry, I should've clarified my answer as well. I did notice that this was from a "right to life" group, as you said, but I didn't take it too seriously. I have some stuff posted in this guild that has been from right-to-life groups too, and I've edited out anything I considered inappropriate.
So what I meant was overall, thank you for posting this. As long as people don't take it too seriously, I think it's ok.
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Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:59 pm
Nikolita Sorry, I should've clarified my answer as well. I did notice that this was from a "right to life" group, as you said, but I didn't take it too seriously. I have some stuff posted in this guild that has been from right-to-life groups too, and I've edited out anything I considered inappropriate. So what I meant was overall, thank you for posting this. As long as people don't take it too seriously, I think it's ok. Yeah, I understand that. If you saw the second thread, you'd notice that I didn't take any of it seriously. Tell me if anything needs to be edited out. I'll gladly do so. :3
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