Life Before Birth: The Challenges of Fetal Development, Second Edition - Couverture souple

Nathanielsz, Peter W

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1735989630 ISBN 13 : 9781735989631

Editeur : Life Course Health Press, LLC, 2022

Synopsis

Who decides the right time to be born? Is it the mother who tires of carrying her baby, or the fetus who tells their mother they are ready to be born? How and when do fetal activities such as the heartbeat, brainwaves, limb movements, and sleep states develop? How do fetuses prepare for an independent life after birth in a world so different from their life in the womb? What stimulates that first miraculous cry that tells the world, “I am here”? Do fetuses have a 24-hour-clock to distinguish day and night? Can fetuses hear their mother’s heartbeat and recognize her voice? Why are fetal lungs filled with fluid and how do the fetal lungs replace that fluid with air at birth? The fetus gets oxygen across the placenta. So, why does the fetus make breathing movements for the whole of the second half of pregnancy when no air is entering their lungs? How do maternal and paternal factors present in the womb change fetal gene activity, altering life-course health and even how we age?


In Life Before Birth Peter Nathanielsz guides us through easily followed, exciting stories on the science of our miraculous and mysterious journey from conception to birth.
Nathanielsz and his colleague Thomas McDonald were the first to show that the signal that starts the birth process releases a specific hormone from a small set of nerve cells deep within the fetal brain. He was also the first to show that the uterine muscle rhythmically hugs the baby, changing their sleep state, body movements, brain and hormone function. The first edition of Life Before Birth was published in fourteen languages. Now at last we have the second edition. Peter Nathanielsz has received multiple awards: he is an Emeritus Professor at Cornell University, a Fulbright Fellow, a Fellow of the Royal College of Obstetricians and a recipient of a Lifetime Achievement award of the Society of Reproductive investigation. He has taught at Cambridge University in England, Cornell University, NYU School of Medicine and the Universities of Texas, Wyoming and London. He has published 600 papers in major scientific journals. For more information see www.lifecoursehealthpress.com.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Life Course Health Press, LLC
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1735989630
• ISBN 13: 9781735989631
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 355
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