Question by hannah: I just ate 8g of saturated fat (according to the nutrition facts label), will i have heart disease?
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No, as long as you stick to a heart-healthy diet, and don’t overindulge on the fatty stuff, you should be fine. It would take years of eating unhealthy stuff to get heart disease.
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Question by Yaguara the Cat: Does breast size increase the risk of a heart attack?
From what I understand, the more fat you have around your heart, the higher your risk for a heart attack is. I know that breasts are outside of the ribcage, but would having large breasts (assuming weight, blood pressure, and all other factors are healthy) increase your risk for a heart attack? Please include facts and not just yes or no.
I know the question is a little odd, but thanks.
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No, there‘s no connection. But it is harder to diagnose heart disease in women with larger breasts. Breast tissue makes it harder to get a good cardiolite imaging study. That’s why studies of male patients are more reliable.
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Question by irishman: i just read an awsome fact a babys heart starts beating already at 10 DAYS!!!anyone know any other baby facts?
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Babies are born with color vision, but unlike adults they don’t see color as vibrantly as we do. What they see tends to be more black and white than color.
The fissures in a babies skull do not completely fuse together until after they are born.
Toys and play are ways that a baby figures out certain things about the world around them.
He certainly can’t cry!
Although the watery environment in which he lives presents small opportunity for crying, which does require air, the unborn knows how to cry, and given a chance to do so, he will. A doctor “. . . injected an air bubble into the baby’s amniotic sac and then took x-rays. It so happened that the air bubble covered the baby’s face. The whole procedure had no doubt given the little fellow quite a bit of jostling about, and the moment that he had air to inhale and exhale they heard the clear sound of a protesting wail emitting from the uterus. Late that same night, the mother awakened her doctor with a telephone call, to report that when she lay down to sleep the air bubble got over the baby’s head again, and he was crying so loudly he was keeping both her and her husband awake. The doctor advised her to prop herself up-right with pillows so that the air could not reach the baby’s head, which was by now in the lower part of the uterus.” Day & Liley, Modern Motherhood, Random House, 1969, pp. 50-51
Does the unborn baby dream?
Using ultrasound techniques, it was first shown that REM (rapid eye movements) which are characteristic of active dream states have been demonstrated at 23 weeks. J. Birnhaltz, “The Development of Human Fetal Eye Movement Patterns,” Science, 1981, vol. 213, pp. 679-681
REM have since been recorded 17 weeks after conception. S. Levi, Brugman University of Brussels, American Medical Association News, February 1, 1983
Since REM are characteristic of dream states after birth, researchers are asking if the unborn child also dreams?
Does he/she think?
In adults, when we contemplate a physical move or action from a resting state, our heart rate accelerates several seconds before the motion. Similarly, the fetal baby’s heart rate speeds up six to ten seconds prior to fetal movement. Is this conscious thought and planning? 83 N. Lauerson & H. Hochberg, “Does the Fetus Think?” JAMA, vol. 247, no. 23, July 18, 1982
“We now know that the unborn child is an aware, reacting human being who from the sixth month on (and perhaps earlier) leads an active emotional life.”
The fetus can, on a primitive level, even learn in utero.
“Whether he ultimately sees himself and, hence, acts as a sad or happy, aggressive or meek, secure or anxiety-ridden person depends, in part, on the messages he gets about himself in the womb.” T. Verney & J. Kelly, The Secret Life of the Unborn Child, Delta Books, 1981, p. 12
“At eight weeks of life a tapping stimulus on the amniotic sac results in arm movements . . . the primitive brain receives the stimulus, selects a response and transmits the response as a signal to the arm.” M. Rosen, “Learning Before Birth,” Harpers Magazine, April 1978
When are all his body systems present?
By eight weeks (two months). Hooker & Davenport, The Prenatal Origin of Behavior, University of Kansas Press, 1952
When do teeth form?
All 20 milk-teeth buds are present at six and a half weeks.”Life Before Birth,” Life Magazine, Apr. 30, 1965, p. 10
And include dental lamina at 8 weeks. Med. Embryology, Longman, 3rd Ed., 1975, p. 406
How about nine weeks?
At nine to ten weeks, he squints, swallows, moves his tongue, and if you stroke his palm, will make a tight fist.
By nine weeks he will “bend his fingers round an object in the palm of his hand.” Valman & Pearson, “What the Fetus Feels,” British Med. Jour., Jan. 26, 1980
(source – WHY CAN’T WE LOVE THEM BOTH
by Dr. and Mrs. J.C. Willke
CHAPTER 12 FETAL DEVELOPMENT)
Weeks One through Four
Ovulation occurs – The time is right; now you just need this egg to be fertilized!
Conception occurs – Did you know that during your pregnancy that your uterus will increase its capacity by 1000 times?!
Gender is determined – Immediately upon fertilization your little one is set as a boy or a girl. Ladies, this is one that you can’t take credit for since it is up to the sperm to determine the sex of your baby. Sperm carries either a “X” (girl) chromosome or a “Y” (boy) chromosome. (*Hint:* You will have to hold off on picking out the pink or blue until at least the second trimester when the gender will be visible via ultrasound.)
Implantation – Some spotting (also known as implantation bleeding) may occur about 10 – 14 days after conception. You may believe you are starting your period but generally this bleeding is extremely light and lasts only a day or so.
Neural tube forms – It will develop into the nervous system (Brain, spinal cord, hair, and skin). Already your baby has the foundation for thought, senses, feeling, and more!
Heart and primitive circulatory system rapidly form – While still in its beginning stages, this is the very life support system that will carry your child throughout his or her life.
Week Five
First heartbeats begin – If you have an early ultrasound you may not be able to recognize this tiny being as a baby, but there is no mistaking what it feels like seeing your child’s heartbeat on that screen. That rhythmic beat is echoed in your own heart.
Umbilical cord develops – This is your baby’s lifeline in utero. It bears the responsibility of pumping in oxygen, removing waste, and supplying the necessary nutrients for the remainder of your pregnancy.
Blood is now pumping – All four heart chambers are now functioning, insuring your baby’s body will receive all it needs over not only the remainder of your pregnancy but throughout life.
Most other organs begin to develop – Your infant’s lungs start to appear, along with her brain. Already your little one is preparing for a quest for lifelong learning!
Arm and leg buds appear – While they may not appear to be much at this stage it is ok to dream of the future. Just imagine your ballerina twirling and jumping around your kitchen floor. Or perhaps you will have the precocious boy that throws the perfect pitch — right through the neighbor’s window.
Week Six
The arms and legs continue to develop – These limbs are stretching out more and more. Later on you will be feeling those feet and elbows up close and personal right in your bladder!
Brain is growing well – Did you know that over the course of the remaining months that your baby’s brain will develop over 100 billion neurons? This is just the beginning!
Lenses of the eyes appear – If you could catch a glimpse inside, you would notice your baby’s appearance becoming increasing like a newborn’s.
Nostrils are formed – The position of the nose seems to shift into its proper place as well. Soon, the nerves running from the nose to the brain appear.
Intestines grow – Initially these are actually located outside the baby’s body within the umbilical cord.
Pancreas – Your baby is now equipped to deal with digestive enzymes and take on processing the insulin and glucagons the body needs to function.
Week Seven
Elbows form – Again, taking a peek inside you could see your baby’s fascination with bending and flexing. Later you will swear you can enlist your child as the star of the next “Karate Kid” movie!
Fingers start to develop – These digits often become your baby’s first toy!
Feet start to appear with tiny notches for the toes – It is fascinating that at less than a half inch, your little guy (or gal) already is leaving “footprints” on your heart!
Ears eyes and nose start to appear – Although they may resemble an alien life form, these all “shift” soon enough into a more normal appearance.
Intestines start to form in the umbilical cord – Did you know that initially the intestines are not formed inside your baby’s body?
Teeth begin to develop under the gums – Thankfully, right now you won’t be dealing with teething pain!
Week Eight
Cartilage and bones begin to form – At the end of this week your baby will have already completed 1/5th of the journey ’til his birthday!
The basic structure of the eye is well underway – The position is more “newborn” like already!
The tongue begins to develop
Intestines move out of the umbilical cord into the abdomen.
Body grows and makes room – Two months along and this little one is growing inside and out by leaps and bounds!
The fingers and toes have appeared but are webbed and short
Baby’s length (crown to rump) is 0.61 inch (1.6cm) and weight is 0.04 ounce (1gm)
Week Nine
Baby has begun movement – While still too small for you to feel, your little one is wriggling, shifting, and dancing already! Makes you almost wish for a window to peek in whenever you want!
Most joints are formed now – and trust that your little one is practicing bending and flexing.
Fetus will curve its fingers around an object placed in the palm of its hand – This is amazing to see! At only nine weeks, if you happen to have an ultrasound, you may observe your infant fascinated by everything he or she can lay their fingers on (mainly other fingers, toes, ears and nose!
Fingerprints are already evident in the skin
Average size this week — length 0.9 inch (2.3cm), weight 0.07 ounce (2gm)
Week Ten
Baby is now called a fetus in “medical terms”. You, however, may have chosen the name “peanut,” “angel,” “jumping bean” or simply “miracle.”
The most critical part of your infant’s development is complete. Now you are headed into a period of rapid growth.
While a bit strange to envision, your baby’s head is now about half its length – Soon the rest of the body’s growth will catch up but this area is prepared to keep up with the rapid brain development!
Eyelids fuse shut and irises begin to develop – Eye color is also determined by this point.
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Joseph Chilton Pearce, in one of his most recent books (“The Biology of Transcendence” or a more recent one, I’m not sure), cites mri research which is very amazing: during the first 45 Minutes after being born, the child who is held by a loving caregiver about 10-12″ from his/her face (i.e., about nursing distance), and shares a gaze for a few minutes, retains her birth consciousness. If not, after the 45 Minute window, the other, “neglected” child will “shut down” (reduce) her consciousness (all this being measured by mri studies) for several Months, before she regains her birth-day awareness. Meanwhile, the “other child” will have progressed merrily along.
Also worthwhile: “Babies Remember Birth,” David Chamberlain, Ph.D,
“Life before Life,” Jim Tucker, M.D.,
“Education Begins before Birth,” O. M. Aivanhov, and
“Wanting to be Born,” Dr. Neroli Duffy.
People are amazing
The contents of the newborns intestines are referred to as meconium. The placenta is an actual organ that is part of the fetus. Fetal red blood cells have nuclei but adult rbc’s do not. The earliest fetal heart is a straight tube that pumps via peristalsis – the tube later folds and remodels into four chambers.
All I know is that condoms are cheaper than diapers, and easier to change as well.
no it doesnt!!
im pregnant, and at 4 weeks pregnant, there isnt even a BABY! i had scans every weeks throughout my first 12 weeks because i was high risk, but everything turned out perfect.
A baby’s heart begins to beat at between 5 and 6 weeks pregnant.
at 4 weeks there is a gestational sac, about 1 cm in diamter and a tiny yolk (a dot of cells on the scan where the baby will eventually grow)
I saw the heartbeat for the first time at 5 weeks 3 days.
And the thing about a baby being a girl until 6 weeks is wrong aswell.
A babies sex is decided at conception, the sperm carries the XX or XY chromosone, to fertilise the egg.
From the second on it is either a boy or a girl
the genetalie dont develop until 14weeks, and they are visible from 18 weeks onwards
Babies are born with…
…very poor vision but can recognize their mothers almost right away.
…a swimming reflex and can naturally hold there breath. But they short lose this instinct.
…blue eyes, within a few moments of delivery their eye color can change. (I don’t quite believe this)
the baby has fingernails.
Take this question to the pregnancy section.
All fetuses grow body hair and then shed it in the womb. This is because when they are developping, different genes are responsible for different activities than when they are further developped. Once the body switches hair development to its permanent gene, the fetus loses its body hair. Since there is no natural selection in the womb, this hair shedding is vestigal and never had the chance to be weeded out during the evolutionary process.
The ears are developed so soon they can hear you if it’s loud. So reading to an un-born child is possible and even good for it. Music has had positive effects too.
a fertilized ovum is small tiny cell unvisible by naked eye and becomes a human being
Not really strictly a baby fact but…when a baby is born it’s eyes stay the same size it’s whole life, but it’s ears and nose never stop growing…
they poop a lot but barely eat anything
untill 6 weeks, all babies are girls.
You won’t feel it today… but I would. I had one well done hamburger 3 years ago, and pretty intense angina the next day requiring two nitroglycerin sprays 5 minutes apart, and again 4 hours later. If the pain had not gone away, I would have been on my way to the ER.
It takes years to really ruin your arteries. What you do wrong on any one day matters less than what you regularly that is good for you.
The plus side is no need to worry about social security, saving for retirement, or wondering if you can pay off the mortgage, or grandchildren.
You will get heart disease by eating 8 gm of saturated fat daily for very long time and not for one day.
Risk factors for heart attack and coronary artery disease include:
* Increasing age (over age 65)
* Male gender
* Diabetes
* Family history of coronary artery disease (genetic or hereditary factors)
* High blood pressure
* Smoking
* Too much fat in your diet
* Unhealthy cholesterol levels, especially high LDL (“bad”) cholesterol and low HDL (“good”) cholesterol
* Chronic kidney disease