Chapter nine has a wealth of knowledge in regards to all the different aspects of conception, pregnancy, and birth. Reproduction is incredibly intricate and is not simply having sex, having a baby, and you’re done. It is a life long commitment and known to have the greatest challenges and responsibilities. The author doesn’t make this statement to scare people out of having children, but to inform them having a baby isn’t easy or something you should do without further planning. Aside from being a great challenge and responsibility, having children brings most people joy, love, pride, and meaning. It is hard for the everyday person to know everything they can about these topics when researchers are still doing studies and discovering new things
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To say these different stages are complex would be a vast understatement. You have how it happens, what happens during, everything that could go wrong, what happens after, and the intricacy of each stage. As a woman myself I probably should of known more about these topics and how they affect one’s body, especially since it will all happen in my body one day, but I only knew the very basic facts from an anatomy class I took years ago. Now I feel like I have a greater understanding of it all. For the section about pregnancy I was glad the author included the different trimesters and went into detail on each one so extensively. I knew of them, but not what happened in each one or when they took place. I also was shocked at how well developed the fetus is after such little time. This chapter also had exceptional graphics and helped me visualize each different stage during pregnancy. It was a little frightening reading about all the things that could go wrong during pregnancy. Although, the author did add some reassuring statistics showing birth defects and complications are fairly uncommon with proper care of your body and unborn baby. Becoming pregnant could be scary in it’s self because it changes your life drastically, but the true fear for me would be ensuring everything goes
To say these different stages are complex would be a vast understatement. You have how it happens, what happens during, everything that could go wrong, what happens after, and the intricacy of each stage. As a woman myself I probably should of known more about these topics and how they affect one’s body, especially since it will all happen in my body one day, but I only knew the very basic facts from an anatomy class I took years ago. Now I feel like I have a greater understanding of it all. For the section about pregnancy I was glad the author included the different trimesters and went into detail on each one so extensively. I knew of them, but not what happened in each one or when they took place. I also was shocked at how well developed the fetus is after such little time. This chapter also had exceptional graphics and helped me visualize each different stage during pregnancy. It was a little frightening reading about all the things that could go wrong during pregnancy. Although, the author did add some reassuring statistics showing birth defects and complications are fairly uncommon with proper care of your body and unborn baby. Becoming pregnant could be scary in it’s self because it changes your life drastically, but the true fear for me would be ensuring everything goes