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"First published nearly 50 years ago, A Child is Born, broke - and continues to break- astonishing new ground by bringing to life the magic of conception, pregnancy, and birth. Deep inside a woman's body, a miracle occurs. An egg and a sperm meet and a new human being is created. Through the unique photographs of Lennart Nilsson, we see the fascinating process of fertilization unfold and watch as an embryo develops from a tiny cluster of cells into...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1.7 - AR Pts: 1
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A baby still waiting to be born describes the boredom of living in a small, cramped space where there are no toys and no one else can be "it" during a game of tag, then considers how life will change when Baby joins Pop and Ma in the outside world.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Shows the actual conception and development of a baby. Looks inside the male and female reproductive organs to show the formation of sperm and the passage of a fertilized egg through the fallopian tube. Uses a microscope to observe DNA, chromosomes, and other minute body details building up to the moment of birth.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 1 - AR Pts: 1
Formats
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"A soon-to-be big sister and her parents prepare for the arrival of a new baby in the family. Alternating panels depict what the family is experiencing in tandem with how the baby is growing, spanning everything from receiving the news about the new baby to the excitement of its arrival.
In this pregnancy book unlike any other one out there, watch what's actually happening through meticulously detailed, actual size illustrations, perfectly paired...
9) In the womb
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
From the moment of conception, every human embryo embarks on an incredible nine-month journey of development. Now, cutting-edge technology makes it possible for National Geographic Channel's "In the womb" to open a window into the hidden world of the fetus and explore each trimester in amazing new detail. Revolutionary 3-D and 4-D imagery sheds light on the delicate, dark world of a fetus as never before and follows a rare fetoscope operation, performed...
Pub. Date
[2016].
Description
Discover the thrilling story of how people are made, from the moment of conception to the moment of birth 280 days later. Follow the gestation process, the most exquisite biological choreography found in nature. Using the latest research and advances in medicine, we can reveal this hidden world in forensic detail. Zeroing in on milestones along the road to creation; where critical events can change people's life.
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Description
Now carefully brought up-to-date, this expanded Fifth Edition will also be the most medically current and comprehensive pregnancy guide available. Always reliable and now re-designed to be even more accessible, weekly chapters include illustrations, descriptions of baby's growth and developmental milestones, information about a mother's average weight gain and what she might be feeling or becoming aware of, and the medical testing that corresponds...
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Pub. Date
2009.
Description
This new second edition is filled with the latest, most accurate wombhood information, including comforting answers to hundreds of questions, such as: "My mother just took a sip of white wine. Am I going to end up looking like some Chernobyl baby now?"; "To the nearest hundred, how many people should Mommy invite to my birth?"
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Pub. Date
[2020]
Description
"Mommy's belly is growing. She's really showing! How big is baby now? Starting with three months, we can compare the little baby growing inside Mommy's belly to things that young children can relate to and see around them: from an egg to a football to a gallon of milk, children can count along and feel like they're a part of the magic that is happening inside that belly! This is the only book like this on the market! A potential classic for years...
14) How big is baby
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Pub. Date
2021.
Description
"This sweet lift-the-flap book for young siblings tells them all about the development and growth of the new baby joining their family"--
15) Baby
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Series
Pub. Date
1993.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Describes the development of a human baby from conception to birth, and briefly discusses genetic and environmental disorders.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Description
Step inside the groundbreaking medical frontier of fetal surgery with an intimate look at The Special Delivery Unit at The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, where a courageous group of doctors and their patients take on the challenges of operations done on babies still inside their mother's wombs. Witness real-time footage of fetal operations, and meet expecting parents as they face gut-wrenching decisions.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Publisher's description: Policing the womb brings to life the chilling ways in which women have become the targets of secretive state surveillance of their pregnancies. Michele Goodwin expands the reproductive health and rights debate beyond abortion to include how legislators increasingly turn to criminalizing women for miscarriages, stillbirths, and threatening the health of their pregnancies. The horrific results include women giving birth while...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
"Embryologist Magdalena Zernicka-Goetz has spent two decades unraveling the mysteries of fetal development. By studying embryonic mouse cells, she witnessed the embryo's ability to rid itself of abnormal cells as it prepared for implantation in the womb. When Zernicka-Goetz became pregnant at 44, she received a call that took her by surprise: a sample test of the cells in her own placenta indicated that the fetus had trisomy-2, a disastrous extra...
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