"Hello baby, is it dark in there?"Posted on 04/07/2010 12:31:49 PM PDT by mlizzy
"Hello baby, is it dark in there?"
Like reader jackie31337, who asked this question when she was a small child, scientists don't remember what life in the womb was like. If they want to know what a fetus can see—not to mention smell, hear, taste and touch—they have to go right to the source. Unfortunately, the unborn are not the world's greatest communicators.
To find the answers, researchers study animal fetuses, healthy human newborns only hours old and premature infants finishing their pre-natal development in an incubator. What they've learned about the fetal experience and the development of the senses not only expands our understanding of the human body, it's also helping to up the premies' chances for a healthy, normal life.
Across the animal kingdom, senses come online in a very specific order that doesn't vary much from one vertebrate to another. The first sense fetuses experience is touch. Then come the chemical-based senses—taste and smell. The ability to hear develops fourth. And finally, so late that many animals are born lacking it, comes sight.
Humans, with our relatively long gestation periods, are one of the few species that can see before we're born. Not that there's very much to see. The short answer to jackie31337's question is, "Yes. It is, in fact, rather dark in there."
"They can tell the difference between dim and very dim. That's what they'd see if mom removed outer clothing on a sunny day," said William Fifer, Ph.D., head of the fetal/infant development lab at Columbia University's division of developmental psychology.
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No doubt. I’ll never forget talking to my son right after he was born, and he gave me this look of astonishment, as if to say, “Wow, so THAT is what makes that kind of sound.”
Oh, definitely. Our DD looked so bewildered after she was born, until my husband laughed and she knew his voice.
Wait until they get to the sensation of Pain for Unborns bet you will find out Abortion is real Painful... we wouldn’t do that to an animal tear it limb by limb just HUMANS!
Because women are selfish and or their Family or Boy friends abuse them into having one!! 66% of women are abused into an abortion thus one dead one wounded. Guess what the leading cause of Death of a Pregnant woman in the USA is?? Give up don’t know the answer... MURDER!
Bishop Sheen said in 1955.. First Oral contraception Then ABORTION next Euthanasia and then we will have a very Violent SOciety! think we are there yet??
Exactly. Ours knew his name. His dad said, “Hi Paddy” and “Paddy” whipped his head around to look back, then pee-d a big golden arch. His dad cracked up the delivery room when he said, “That’s my boy!” ;-)
People should watch Silent Scream and Eclipse of Reason with Dr. Nathanson, former abortionist and head of NARAL.
If they still deny after watching the child run away in the womb, there’s no hope for them.
They really don’t care if the baby is a live human in the womb,
as a matter of fact, they KNOW it is.
I remember (although very few people have ever believed me).
I can tell you that the abortion of a well-developed fetus is no different than the murder of an adult (well, except that the person being murdered is 100% innocent).
Wow. Thank you for my new tag line.
“Before I formed you in the womb, I knew you.”
Jeremiah 1:5
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