Over the past week, we have discussed prenatal development. Although prenatal development is not an area that directly relates to the work of a child life specialist, I am personally interested in this topic for a myriad of reasons. It is incredibly interesting that the most important phases of prenatal development occur when some mothers are just discovering that they are pregnant. By the time a mother has realized she is pregnant the embryo’s brain, spinal cord, heart, and other organs have begun to form and the heart may have already started beating. I am intrigued by this topic because it is truly amazing what human bodies can do and create through such a defined biological process. In our developmental disabilities class, we are discussing
