Analysis Of The Film 'Life's Greatest Miracle'

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Where do babies come from? The Birds and Bees, the stork, and the “talk”, at one point in time, we’ve all heard versions of where babies come from. In the film, Life’s Greatest Miracle, the question of where babies come from is answered in much more detail than many of us knew when we heard our own versions. In this essay, I will discuss the pattern of development, aspects of the movie, and the hindrances of successful conception, how sensitivity to food smells could protect the developing fetus, lastly address concerns in the movie that the mother and father had about childbirth. In the film, Life’s Greatest Miracle, takes us through the pattern of development. But where does it initially begin? From conception to birth there are many progressions. Initially it begins as two separate components a sperm and an egg. Once the sperm has completed its journey through the fallopian tubes and successfully entered the egg fertilization begins. Once fertilization is completed, the sperm and egg are one, and it is now embryo. During this time the embryo undergoes changes, body structures and internal organs develop. The head is the first develop, the growth starts near the center of the body. “At the beginning of this period, three layers form in the embryo.” These three layers are …show more content…

I was able to get a better understanding of the pattern of development, reaffirm aspects that I already knew about conception to birth, while learning new aspects, understand and explain hindrances of a successful conception, how sensitivity to food smells could protect the developing fetus, lastly address concerns in the movie that the mother and father had about childbirth. The Birds and Bees, the stork, and the “talk” all have great merit in presenting the idea of the conception to birth, but “Life’s Greatest Miracle” has given us the better understanding and education that we need to be able to further explain

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