Page 22 - MakingABaby

Most babies take around nine months to grow inside the womb. But to begin with, they don’t really look like babies at all.
About a week after the sperm and egg have met, the embryo sticks to the inside of the womb, where it begins to grow inside
a bag of watery fluid.
To pass food and air to the growing baby, the womb grows a new body part called a placenta.
You were once attached to the person that grew you by an umbilical cord, too. Now you have a tummy button where the end of the cord used to be.
By now it has got arms and legs, ears, eyes, a nose and a mouth, and can open and close its hands. It is now called a foetus.
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