A Time to Be Born: The Life of the Unborn Child (Oxford Medical Publications)

Medical Books

Nathanielsz, Peter W.

Basic Sciences

Oxford Univ. Pr.

This work examines the stages and mechanisms of normal development during the last three months of pregnancy. Topics covered include: how the placenta functions as a lung, gut and kidney for the uterus; how the foetal brain is dependent on continuous activity to develop normally; maternal lifestyle and its impact on foetal development; cell instructions to each other in order that they end up in the right place in the baby`s body; how the foetus gives the signal to start the birth process; and how the new-born baby adapts to the world outside the uterus.

Life Before Birth: The Challenges of Fetal Development

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

W.H.Freeman & Co.

Describes the fascinating wonders of our prenatal origins as we prepare to take on the challenges of independent life. The author answers such questions as: 
 * How does the fetus start the birth process? 
 * Why does the fetus make breathing movements? 
 * What are the functions of the placenta, our only true throw-away organ? 
 * How does maternal lifestyle affect the fetus? 
 * How does the fetus tell the time?

Life Before Birth and a Time to Be Born

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Women's Health

Perinatology Pr

A story that will change your ideas about health and disease. Full of revolutionary and iconoclastic ideas impacting all our lives and the lives of generations of children as yet unborn. 
 * How we are ushered into life will affect how we leave it. 
 * Diseases such as diabetes can be passed transgenerationally from mother to daughter and from daughter to granddaughter by nongenetic mechanisms. 
 * The idea that our health is programmed in the womb is supported by life-time health records of babies born at the beginning of this century which show that birthweight is closely linked to health in later life.

Life in the Womb: The Origin of Health and Disease

Medicine

Promethean Pr

We pass more biological milestones before birth than any other time in our lives. Peter W. Nathanielsz writes that how we develop in the womb is the most fascinating biological story, central to our life-time health. The first edition of Life Before Birth, published in twelve languages, was the first evidence-based book on the science of fetal development, easily accessible for the general reader. This unique book unlocks the awe-inspiring biology that unfolds as fetuses live and grow in one environment, the womb, while simultaneously preparing for independent life in a very different previously unexperienced world. The new edition shows how the placenta functions as a fetal lung, gut, kidney and multiple glands. Just as training prepares a track athlete, fetal preparations determine performance when the great event of birth occurs. The development of a unique fetal blood system that changes within minutes when the placenta is lost at birth is a truly dramatic story.

Life Before Birth: The Challenges of Fetal Development, Second Edition

Life Course Health Press, LLC

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