Body Atlas: In the Womb (Reaction Paper)

REACTION PAPER

BODY ATLAS: In the Womb

 

Thy Womb is a film that is worth watching for. This film indeed tells the reality of living. The reality in which people do have different cultures as well as their way of living that was affected by the things or events in their surroundings. This reality is also experienced by us in our lives but in different circumstances. For myself, as I watched this film, confusion did take place but when I finished the film somehow everything just turned out to be connected with the vision and the objective of our educator, Sir Johnny Rocha speaking as a third person.

Pregnancy is said to be one of the most beautiful creative processes but yet a great mystery. Conceive the 9-month waiting for the baby to develop from the moment he is only a small cell until he becomes a child in flesh and blood. We should capture that pregnancy is a natural and normal phenomena. As a woman, I understand that pregnancy is a very significant time in a woman’s life and it is very important to know what happens in these nine months and what you can do to keep things on track and avoid problems.

The topic of human birth is quite an interesting one. For example, why do we give birth the way we do? Why is labour so incapacitating to human females, and how has natural selection been a factor? The film has investigated the way in which the process of human pregnancy has evolved over time, and found a strong link between the biological and the sociological.

Large animals generally have longer pregnancies. Humans have one of the longest, 39 weeks as said in the film. Pregnancy varies little from woman to woman. All of the eggs a woman will produce are formed in her ovaries before she is born. They are the largest cells in the body. A man will continue to produce sperm for most of his life. A woman releases one egg every 28 days. It drifts into a fallopian tube and will be impregnated by only one of the millions of sperm which have entered her body.

All of the genetic information to produce a unique human is combined from the egg and sperm. In 1 1/2 days the fertilized egg will divide into two cells. It will take one week to travel down the fallopian tube to attach itself to the wall of the uterus. The baby are develop started in 3rd week. The heart of the fetus begins beating. Most organs have begun. In less than a month the egg becomes an embryo. In 5th week, the umbilical cord functioning. The brain of the fetus is 1/3 of its size. In the sixth week, the fingers and toes start forming. Seventh week, first movement is undetectable and the baby weighs is 1/3 oz. In the 8th week, the fetus is one inch long, the bone is forming and begun to be like a human. The head is almost 1/2 of body's length in the ninth week. Rudimentary spinal cord is formed. No sign of consciousness. In the 14th week, the mother can feel movement. Fetus swallows and excretes. Thumb sucking begins and indicating handedness.

Fetus fills womb in 16th week. It is receiving food and eliminating waste through the umbilical cord to the placenta, which acts as its lungs, liver and digestive organs. In the 20th week, the heartbeat is twice the mother's and is delivering daily a few spoonfuls of blood. A woman is aware of its sleeping and waking times. In the 26th week, Mother's heart, kidneys, breathing, and skin are adapting. Baby can hear and is light sensitive. In the 30th week, the baby now almost independents, has a good chance of survival, though still 2 months premature. In 35th-39th week, the baby's muscle tone and brain well developed. The Mother has gained 30 lbs. Baby turns headed down. The most awaiting moment from a mother is the birth of the baby. The baby' first cry starts its breathing and oxygen intake causes red blood cells to change its colour from blue to pink. The infant are dependent to the vital until the umbilical have cut. The infant are independent. They will breathe in their own.

Humans are formed from two cells that combined and fertilized. From many sperm cells fighting for one egg cell, a human being is form. As the success of human birth and the ability to conceive more frequently in a lifetime became greater. Increased birth rates meant increased variation, providing a larger pool of genetic traits to be selected for or against. Birth evolved from a private to a social process in order to increase the rates of survival for both mother and child. With time, this socialization led to the development of various techniques of compensating for the physical limitations. Many people believe that sometimes they are unfortunate, but being birth is very auspicious. Among millions of sperms, having different genes, you are formed.

The film describes how the body parts of the baby develop inside the mother’s womb. I was amazed with this because in nine months pregnancy of the mother, different organs of the baby develop and they turn into a real human being. At 3 weeks old of the baby, imagine that the heart of the baby starts to beat. At early days of the pregnancy of the mother, you will not even notice that the child inside your womb has already a life. Then, the bones start to grow and have proportion at 9 weeks old of the baby. As time goes by, many organs form in the baby and the mother must be careful about their health and thing they are doing because it can really affects the baby.

According to the film, loud sounds can make the baby jump in the mother’s womb. So if I will become pregnant someday in the future, I must be aware of the sounds I hear. Classical music or sounds can help the baby to be intelligent or nurture the talents even if they are only inside the womb. Anything that the mother can hear, feel, eats, drink; really affect the health of the child.

Also being careless of the mother can affect the baby. If you will get slide onto a wet place, there is a tendency that your child will have lip pallet because in the womb, your child is having a thumb sucking movement. Moreover, if your child is a right-handed in writing, s/he sucked in his/her right hand when inside the womb and vice versa in left- handed. “Body Atlas: In the Womb” gives me lots of knowledge that will surely help me for being a mother or how to take care of my baby while inside my womb in the future. It will really help me to take care of my child and do things that will enhance my child whenever I have plans on having a baby; also I’ll use classical music than the popular songs so that my child will have a better progress of thinking, to do a lot of things, to enhance its own abilities, to think faster, to know its own talents and be smarter.