From the production of the first cell (egg) to the development of the fetus and the birth and breast-feeding of the child, fathers can be absent.
By recommending only that the research "merits cautious scrutiny," the church sidestepped the more sensitive question of whether body and spirit merge at conception or later in the development of the fetus.
Not all genetic disorders are familial, however, because the mutation may arise for the first time during the formation of the gametes or during the early development of the fetus.
Her doctors said that the lung and limb development of the fetus had stopped, that it had a remote chance of being born alive or able to breathe, and that she faced a chance of serious infection.
To investigate the vertical transmission of hepatitis B virus (HBV) via embryos to children and whether HBV in embryos has an effect on the development of the fetus and pregnancy outcomes of in vitro fertilization and embryo transfer (IVF-ET).
Our results support the view for an association between low in utero exposure to DDT and the anthropometric development of the fetus leading to a reduction in its head circumference, crown heel length, birth weight and birth height.
Indeed, so close was the connection supposed to be that simply imagining emotionally-fraught situations could mark the development of the fetus, and there was a substantial literature of eighteenth-century manuals instructing mothers-to-be on the proper control of their affective states.
In contrast to fetal alcohol syndrome and the effects of nicotine, there is no medical consensus that prenatal cannabis use affects the physical development of the fetus.
And if pregnancy is in your plans, beans can give you a steady supply of folic acid -- essential for normal development of the fetus.
We have provided evidence that early development of the fetus influences the lateralization of cerebral activity, particularly following stress, in early childhood.
The increase in cerebellar IGF-I levels and body weight suggests that maternal enrichment during pregnancy affects the global development of the fetus.
