Making of a Child!
Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson spent 12 years of his life taking pictures of the foetus. Look how a Child is born: Photographs of the foetus developing in the womb, by Lennart Nilsson Developing in the womb. These incredible photographs were taken with conventional cameras with macro lenses, an endoscope and scanning electron microscope. Nilsson used a magnification of hundreds of thousands and “worked” right in the womb. His first photo of the human foetus was taken in 1965. 1. Sperm in the fallopian tube
2. The egg cell
3. Will they have a date?
4. The fallopian tube
5. Two sperms are contacting with the egg cell
6. The winning sperm
7. Winning Moments
8. The sperm 5-6 days.The clump has developed into a blastocyst, containing many more cells,and has entered the womb
9. Eight days.The human embryo is attached to a wall of the uterus
10. The brain starts to develop in the human embryo
11. Twenty four days.The one-month-old embryo has no skeleton yet.There is only a heart that starts beating on the 18th day
12. Four Weeks
13. Five weeks.Approximately 9 mm.You can now distinguish the face with holes for eyes,nostrils and mouth
14. Forty days.Embryonic cells form the placenta.This organ connects the embryo to the uterine wall allowing nutrient uptake,waste elimination and gas exchange via the woman’s blood supply
15. Eight weeks.The rapidly-growing embryo is well protected in the foetal sac
16. Ten weeks. The eyelids are semi-shut. They will close completely in a few days
17. Sixteen weeks.The foetus uses its hands to explore its own body and its surroundings
18. The skeleton consists mainly of flexible cartridge.A network of blood vessels is visible through the thin skin
19. Eighteen weeks.Approximately 14 cm.The foetus can now perceive sounds from the outside world
20. Nineteen Weeks
21. Twenty weeks. Approximately 20 cm. Woolly hair, known as lanugo, covers the entire head
22. Twenty Four weeks
23. Twenty Six Weeks
24. Six months.The little human is getting ready to leave the uterus.It turns upside down because it will be easier to get out this way
25. Thirty Six weeks. The child will see the world in 4 weeks
