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Incredible Photos: A Child is Born

Swedesh photographer Lennart Nilsson spent 12 years of his life taking pictures of the foetus 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.


Sperm in the fallopian tube


The egg cell


Will they have a date?


The fallopian tube


Two sperms are contacting with the egg cell


The winning sperm


Sperm


5-6 days. The clump has developed into a blastocyst, containing many more cells, and has entered the womb 9


8 days. The human embryo is attached to a wall of the uterus


The brain starts to develop in the human embryo


24 days. The one-month-old embryo has no skeleton yet. There is only a heart that starts beating on the 18th day


4 weeks


4.5 weeks


5 weeks: Approximately 9 mm. You can now distinguish the face with holes for eyes, nostrils and mouth


40 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


Eight weeks. The rapidly-growing embryo is well protected in the foetal sac


10 weeks. The eyelids are semi-shut. They will close completely in a few days


16 weeks. The foetus uses its hands to explore its own body and its surroundings


The skeleton consists mainly of flexible cartridge. A network of blood vessels is visible through the thin skin


18 weeks: Approximately 14 cm. The foetus can now perceive sounds from the outside world


19 weeks


20 weeks: Approximately 20 cm. Woolly hair, known as lanugo, covers the entire head


24 weeks


26 weeks


6 months. There are still 8-10 weeks ahead, so the little human is getting ready to leave the uterus. It turns upside down because it will be easier to get out this way .


36 weeks. The child will see the world in 4 weeks