Stillborn Baby Observation

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A few months ago, I was blessed with the opportunity to visit the Southern California University of Health Sciences in Whittier, California with my IB Biology class. Here we were able to interact with premature and stillborn babies to learn about their development and also to examine and hold the organs inside of a human body. For example, I was able to hold a human brain, heart, ribcage, liver, and so on. I was fascinated with the concept that these organs had once been inside a living body, and that they had been the reason that person had been alive. I especially took interest in the brain, because of the knowledge and information it had once possessed. The scientists working in the laboratory gave us an informative explanation about everything

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