In the WOMB- National Geographic Channel

1. How much sperm is released during a healthy man’s ejaculation?

2. How can a man effective the health of his sperm?
3. How far do sperms swim per minute?
4. What is the largest cell in a woman’s body?
5. Research suggests that sperm find their way to the egg by what sense?
6. Fertilization can take up to how many hours following intercourse?
7. What happens to the egg once it is fertilized?
8. The moment the two nuclei fuse is called?
9. What structure stores the genetic code?
10. Each parent provides how many chromosomes?
11. How many genes does it take to make a human?
12. Which parent’s genetics determine the sex of the baby?
13. After fertilization the egg takes how long to begin dividing?
14. The outer cells of the dividing egg will for what structure?
15. The inner cells will form which structure?
16. The cells that can take any form or function are called what?
17. When does the blastocyst make it to the uterus?
18. The first trimester is how long?
19. A long tube begins to form after how many weeks?
20. The top of the tube will become what structure?
21. At Day 15 _______ cells begins to form.
22. The mother’s blood volume increases by how much, in preparation for her pregnancy?
23. The first organ to form is and when?
24. When does the organ (?26) begin to function?
25. After 11 weeks the embryo is the size of what?
26. The embryos heart has how many chambers?
27. How many facial folds form the face?
28. The scar of this process is called what? Where is it located?
29. What happens at 6 weeks?

30. When will the body size catch up with the head?
31. What does the term fetus mean?
32. What is the purpose of the yolk sac?
33. What is the role of the placenta?

34. When a woman is pregnant she has a tendency to do what toward harmful foods?
35. At 9 weeks twitching begins. Is it voluntary or involuntary?
36. Does the brain control the heart and the spinal cord at 9 weeks?
37. How fast does the fetal heart beat at 9 weeks?
38. Is the ultrasound harmful?
39. How does it produce images?
40. Ultra scan now are performed in how many dimensions?
41. A history of twins of which parents’ side increases the mother’s chances of having twins?
42. What event forms identical twins?
43. What event forms fraternal twins?
44. Building blocks for walking are formed at:
45. #44 is caused by?
46. All organs are formed at how many weeks?
47. There is a decreased risk of miscarriage after how many weeks?
48. What % of fertilized eggs make it to full pregnancy?
49. The identical genitals present at this stage are called?
50. What is the difference at 12 weeks in the genitals?
51. After 4 months the fetus is increasingly being controlled by what?
52. Which is developed first hands or feet?
53. What is controlling the heart at 4 months?
54. What instrument do you use to hear the heartbeat?
55. The unconscious awareness of the fetus place in space is called?
56. Identical twins show contact at how many weeks?
57. When does the digestive system begin activity?
58. What is the black paste formed by the digestive system called?
59. When will the mother be aware of fetal movements?
60. When do the eyes open? Can they see?
61. By 6 months what has happened?
62. What is the earliest a baby can be born and have a chance of survival?
63. A baby born before 26 weeks has a 50% chance of developing what?
64. A fetus's mouth and nose are permanently filled with what?
65. Amniotic fluid carries strong tastes and flavors of what the mother eats. This prepares the baby for her first tastes
of what?
66. What is the one sense that cannot be experienced until birth?
67. Opening and closing her eyes helps the fetus develop what reflex?
68. What characteristic changes during the first months after birth?
69. A baby of Asian and African decent is born with what color eyes?
70. Caucasian babies have eye color in the womb?
71. What is the most used/developed sense in the womb?
72. What are the first sounds a fetus hears?
73. Fetuses only hear the (what?) of speech and not the percussion of consonants.
74. During the final trimester (after 26 weeks), a fetus spends (what percent) of time sleeping.
75. Sudden noises can initiate what reflex?
76. By drinking amniotic fluid, the fetus maintains what balance in her body?
77. The development of what reflex is crucial for breastfeeding?
78. As soon as thumb sucking begins what emerges overtime?
79. The fetus's heart beats how much faster than the mother?
80. As the fetus moves toward birth it will _______ her weight and ________ her length.
81. Although the baby has her own separate blood supply, mother's increased heart rate and blood pressure are easily
passed through the placenta and have a __________ ___________ on the baby.
82. In the short term, stress in the mother can result in low birth rate and ____________ _____________.
83. Prolonged maternal stress can be ____________. Making the baby more likely to develop what?

84. The last of the major organs to form are what?

85. All of the baby’s oxygen is delivered by the mother’s __________ through the placenta.
86. A ____________ ____________ is allows to operate the fetus while inside the womb.
87. The fetus has listened to her _________ _________ so often, she is familiar to its rhythms.
88. She’s likely to be turned _______ _______, which is marked by the mother with kicks to the ribs.
89. At 33 weeks, the fetus may recognize a particular piece of music and even _______ to it.
90. The gentle flicker of the eyes may be a sign that the fetus is already _____________.
91. Only ______ of babies are born on their due date.
92. “Water breaking” is the ______________________ rupturing.
93. What determines the timing of the birth?
94. The hormone ____________ initiates the contractions of the uterine wall.
95. Labor is also painful and stressful for the _________.
96. To help the baby to cope with the stress of labor the body releases ____________ .
97. As soon as the baby is delivered, lungs drain of fluid and air rushes in, expanding _________ _________ in that
instant begin extracting oxygen, keeping the baby alive.
98. In the third stage of labor what happens?