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Sure, you know about the birds and the bees. But do you know what happens after conception? Do you know what you looked like two weeks into your mom's pregnancy? Do you know the amazing facts about the first nine months of your life? Take this quick quiz to find out. 1. You started swimming and doing back flips: 2. If you kept growing all 9 months as fast as you did during
your secnod month, you would have been born as big as: 3. When did you most likely feel pain for the first time? 4. By the time your mother found out she was pregnant, you were: 5. Your mother says you started to kick and poke her: 6. 5 months into the pregnancy you got a lot of hiccups because: 7. Before you were born, your skin was: 8. When did you start using your brain? 9. When was the color of your hair determined? 10. 5 months before you were born, your heart pumped enough blood
every day to: 11. When did you first start looking like either a boy or a girl? 12. If your mother smoked while she was pregnant, you may have
been born: 13. How premature can a baby be born and still survive? 14. When did you begin to look like your mom and dad?
Answers to Quiz Questions 1. The correct answer is B. At 9 weeks you could swim a mean backstroke. Your favorite technique was a little backwards walk, leading with your head. 2. The correct answer is C. It's a good thing you slowed down after the second month, or your birthweight would've been 14 tons. Let Daddy try bouncing that on his knee! 3. The correct answer is B. By 7 weeks all the structures necessary for pain sensation are functioning. You would try your hardest to avoid the source of pain. 4. The correct answer is B. About 8 weeks after conception, all systems were go: skeletal, nervous, digestive, circulatory, and respiratory. The only job left was to refine what you alread had. 5. The correct answer is B. At only a couple of months you started to shake, rattle and roll, but you were too little for mom to notice. By 4 or 5 months, however, she swore you had a blackbelt in karate. 6. The correct answer is B. Not only does amniotic fluid make a cushy "water bed", but it's also full of glucose (sugar). Swallowing the fluid was good practice for your digestive system and made for a healthier baby. 7. The correct answer is C. About halfway through the pregnancy, you had lots of nice skin but not much fat to fill it out. That's why premature babies look wrinkled - they need more meat on their bones. The wax-works effect was caused by the vernix, a thick whitish cream which covered your skin to protect it from the amniotic fluid. 8. The correct answer is B. Fetal electric brain waves have been traced as early as the sixth week. What do you suppose you were thinking about? 9. The correct answer is A. At conception, each parent contributed approximately 50,000 chemical "instruction sheets" (or genes) that determined not only what you look like, but also your heath, talents, tastes, athletic abilities, intelligence, allergies, and more. 10. The correct ansewr is B. 4 months after conception you were pumping 6 1/2 gallons of blood each day through a body about as long as your hand is now. And it was your blood, not your mother's - you never shared her circulatory system. You may even have a completely different blood type. 11. The correct answer is B. You were either male or female from the point of conception, but it took about 46 days for parts to be recognizeable. Thanks to modern science, parents can now see the sex of their unborn baby with the help of an ultrasound machine by about 4 months. At last, they can answer the age-old question, "What color should I paint the nursery?" 12. The correct answer is B. A smoking mom sends nicotene, carbon monoxide, carbonic acid and wood alcohol right down the line to her baby. Smoking 2 packs a day reduces a baby's birth weight by 10% - which can seriously reduce the infant's chances of survival. 13. The correct answer is C. With modern technology, babies as young as 22 weeks after conception, weighing only 14 oz., have survived premature birth. You would need a lot of medical help, but would fight like a champion to hold on to life. 14. The correct answer is B. During your fourth month, you grew to the grand height of 8 inches and began to resemble your parents. At 10 weeks you had a unique trait that may interest the FBI someday - fingerprints. Nobody ever had or will have the same set. |