Conception to Birth

Have you ever stopped to think what was happening in your mother's stomach as you were growing to be the person you are today? It is so amazingly unbelievable how fast a fetus develops into a recognizable human being.


In the Ted Talk video I watched Alexander Tsiaras talked about the amazing development of a fetus. When the baby first starts to develop everything is made of collagen, but the only placed collagen changes is in the eye, it becomes transparent. The starting cells of the new fetus split every 12-15 hours. There are over 1 million cells made per second to form everything. After 8 weeks the heart is matured, organs are formed by folding, also at 36 days the vertebrae is formed. At 44 days it is able to be recognized. The baby turns as it comes out, turning in circles to wiggle its way out. Tsiaras says that the complexity of building the human body, in one system, is absolutely astonishing. He also asks a very interesting question, "How does it not mess up, how does the body always do it correctly?" But the most interesting point that i think he made was, "How does the women's body know how to build itself and carry around another human body that's building itself too?"

As I was watching this video, I was amazed at everything he talked about. I knew how birth worked and how the fetus formed, but I never knew that it was so complex and so amazing. One thing that Tsiaras talked about that i found extremely fascinating was when he made the point, "How does the women's body know how to build itself and carry around another human body that's building itself too?" I found this part interesting because when you stop and think about this question, its an absolutely crazy but astounding. The thought of a baby forming inside a women's body becoming more and more like a human everyday, while the mom still functions perfectly fine. I find this amazing. One other thing that I found interesting was how quickly everything forms, by 36 days the baby has a vertebrae and by 44 days it looks like a human being. This is super cool. The thought of a baby forming in a women's body so quickly and perfectly is amazing.