Prenatal Development

  • Oocyte

    Oocyte

    A cell in an ovary which may undergo meiotic division to form an ovum
  • Sperm

    Sperm

    Sperm cells swim to and fertilize a female reproductive cell called an oocyte, or egg
  • Egg Inseminated

    Egg Inseminated

    An egg is fertilized by injecting a single sperm into the egg or mixing the egg with sperm in a petri dish
  • Baby's First Division

    Baby's First Division

    After 30 hours or so, it divides from one cell into two. Some 15 hours later, the two cells divide to become four
  • Early Embryo

    Early Embryo

    Cells divided
  • Heart Chamber Developing

    Heart Chamber Developing

    The development of the heart begins as early as the third week of gestation with the 4-chamber fetal heart formed by gestational week 7
  • 32 Days

    The arms and hands start developing
  • 45 Days

    45 Days

    Embryos heart is beating twice as fast as the mothers
  • 12 Weeks

    12 Weeks

    Gender may be able to development
  • 8 Months

    8 Months

    The fine hair called lanugo that has covered his tiny body over the past few weeks starts to disappear