From a single cell to a complex, self-sustaining organism. With ground-breaking photography, computer graphics, and 4-D imaging, In the Womb reveals this amazing process as the first heart cells begin to beat, the nerve cells flicker to life, and the senses develop.
Each month a woman's ovaries release one egg that contains her own genetic code. She made these eggs while she was still re-feed herself nascenced inside her own mother's womb. And they've been kept storage ever since through childhood, adolescence and adulthood ready to burst into life.
How the sperm find their way to the egg is something of a mystery. Recent research indicates that sperm have a sense of smell and can sniff their way to the egg. The journey is so long and arduous for the sperm that only a handful survive. It may take up to 10 hours before the actual moment of conception. The first sperm to reach to the egg are the strongest and fadest. And the first of borrow its head through the egg * will be the winner. There are no prizes for coming in second. The instant one sperm enters the egg, it triggers a change in the egg's membering, making it impenetrable to all other sperm which all die off within a week.
