Unique pictures - birth of a new life

• Unique pictures - birth of a new life of

Swedish photographer Lennart Nilsson took his first photographs in 1965. He spent 10 years of his life to shoot on film the evolution of the embryo from conception to birth.

Unique footage from the place where people take the first step into the world of ...

The sperm in the folds of the mucous membrane of the fallopian tubes is moving toward the egg:

The egg:

Do meeting will take place?

The walls of the fallopian tube:

The two sperm in contact with the egg shell. Enzymes contained in the head of the sperm, the egg shell is dissolved, but only the genetic material of a single sperm is involved in fertilization:

One of the 200 million paternal sperm had penetrated the shell of the egg, just poured into it:

The longitudinal section of sperm. The genetic material contained in the sperm head:

A week embryo, sliding down the fallopian tube, moves into the uterus:

8 days. The embryo is attached to the endometrium:

22 days. Development of the embryo. Gray - the future brain:

24 days. Skeleton in the fetus month yet, there is only the heart, it begins to pulsate on the 18th day:

the 28th day after fertilization:

4.5 weeks:

5 weeks. Embryo, length 9 mm, already guessed face with holes for the mouth, nostrils and eyes:

40 days. Exterior embryo cells fused with the fluffy surface of the uterus and the placenta form, or child seat. This spongy piece of flesh for a man in the first nine months of his life, and lungs, and the stomach, and liver and kidney:

8 weeks. Rapidly growing embryo is well protected in the womb. With the help of an electron microscope Nilsson was able to zoom in on hundreds of thousands of times:

10 weeks. Eyelids are already half open. Within a few days they will form completely:

16 weeks. Inquisitive toddler is already using his hands to explore the surroundings:

The skeleton is mainly composed of a flexible rod and a network of blood vessels visible through the thin skin:

18 weeks. . About 14 cm embryo can now perceive sounds from the outside world:

19 weeks:

20 weeks. . About 20 cm on the head hair is already starting to appear:

24 weeks:

26 weeks:

6 months. There are still eight to ten weeks of carefree:

36 weeks. After 4 weeks, the child sees the white light:

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