When you were 49 days old
Follow the fascinating development of an unborn child

RU-486 is a chemical abortion method used through the 7th week of pregnancy. Abortion providers may say that the fetus is only the size of an aspirin tablet, but size isn’t the issue. The development of the unborn child through the first 49 days is fascinating. Don’t be fooled into thinking an unborn child is only a blob of tissue during the earliest stages of human life. Learn the facts!

Our lives begin, of course, long before birth. Not open to dispute is the fact that every one of us began our lives at the moment of fertilization. The following description of the first several weeks of life is recognized in medical texts as well as basic biology books. But how much do you know about your own beginnings? Let’s take a look at your history.

At conception, sperm joined ovum to form a single cell which, miraculously, contained the genetic blueprint for every detail of your development - sex, hair and eye color, height, skin tone and more. Over the next week, you traveled through your mother’s fallopian tube to her uterus, implanting in the nutrient-rich lining. Within 22 days, your heart was beating, and your spinal column, nervous system, kidneys, liver and digestive tract took shape. Within a few short weeks, you were about 1/4 inch long: already ten thousand times larger than when you began!

Your brain tissue grew rapidly and by 40 days brain waves could have been recorded. Your facial features were taking shape: ears, nose, lips, tongue and even tiny teeth. Near month’s end your skeleton changed from cartilage to bone and you graduated to fetus, Latin for “offspring” or “young one.”

Tiny though you were, all major bodily systems were laid down and you weighed only 1/30 of an ounce.

In reality, size didn’t matter. Life began for you at the moment of conception and those around you knew all you needed was a little time to develop!

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