Dear steemians, the post of this day is about our life in our mothers' womb, and how Nilsson Lennart show us a special thing was so hard in a time and how he made it too easy to see. A good vision of the foetus' life that every human pass by. This great man spent 10 years of his life to show us just 9 month of the foetus' life.
The world first heard of Lennart Nilsson in 1965, when Life magazine published 16 pages of his human embryos' images. The footage was immediately reproduced by Stern, Paris Match, Sunday Times and other magazines. Microscopes and cameras were the main passion for Nilsson even in childhood. Over time, his ambition was formed to show the beauty of the human body at the micro-level. He was able to take his first picture of the fetus in 1957, but it was not good enough for publication.
He was able to get his wonderful shots, with the help of the cystoscope, a medical instrument used to examine the inside of the urinary bladder. He Attached a small light to his camera and he took thousands of images that record all the fetus's life in the womb of his mother.
Bellow i am going to share with you a collection of stunning pictures that Nilsson could document.
Lennart Nilsson spent 10 years of his life to record the foetal growth and development In his mother's womb of pregnancy until delivery.
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The sperm is moving towards the ovum along the fallopian tube
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The ovum
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This is the most crucial moment and the beginning of the fertilization of human eggs process.
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One out of 200 Million penetrates the membrane of the human egg.
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Pointed head of sperm that contains all of the genetic material.
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After a week, the embryo migrate to the uterus trough swimming downstairs via the fallopian tube
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After one other week, the embryo sticks to the side of the uterus.
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The foetal in the beginning of development, the grey area is the baby's brain.
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in the day 18 of his development, his heart start to beat.
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After 28 days from the fertilization
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At 5 weeks, a healthy baby would be about 9 millimeters long. We could really see the face with holes of mouth,nose and eyes.
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40 days of development, external cells of the foetus join the puffy surface of the uterus in order to form the placenta.
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8 weeks of development.
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At 10 weeks, we could really see eyelid half-open, within a matter of days it completely will be formed.
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- At 10 weeks, the foetus can really use his hand to discover the environment.*
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- After 16 weeks.*
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The blood supply lines are visible trough his skin.
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18 weeks, the foetus really could discover the sounds from the outside world.
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After 19 weeks.
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At 20 weeks, a healthy baby would be about 20 centimeters long, and the hair appears on his head.
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After 20 weeks.
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After 6 weeks.
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One month before delivery day.
Now, Lennart Nilsson in his 91 year, still interested in science an photography, he came out with a wonderful illustrated book called "The baby is born" that is widely prevalent.