Daily Readings and Homily - 2020-08-29 - Fr. John Paul

The unborn child in the womb  

When does the unborn child's heart begin to beat? Eighteen days after conception and by 21 days the heart is pumping blood through a closed circulatory system.

When can the unborn child's brainwaves be detected?  Six weeks after conception

When do fingerprints appear on the unborn child's hands? Fourteen weeks

When can the unborn child feel pain?  By nine weeks, by nine weeks from conception all the structures necessary for pain sensation are functioning now.

 

Here are some other milestones of the unborn child's development in the womb of his mother or her mother:

At four weeks from conception a baby's eyes, ears, and respiratory systems begin to form.

Thumb sucking has been documented from seven weeks from conception.

At eight weeks from conception a baby's heartbeat can be detected by an ultrasonic stethoscope.

At eight weeks everything is present in an adult human that is now present in an unborn child.

At eight weeks everything is present in an adult human is now present in the child in the womb.

At eight weeks the bones are beginning to form.

The muscles can contract.

The facial features continue to mature.

The eyelids are now more developed.

The baby is about one inch long and is the size of a bean.

By nine weeks from conception a baby is able to bend her fingers around an object in her hand.

By 11 to 12 weeks from conception the baby is breathing fluid steadily and continues to do so until birth.

By 11 weeks from conception a baby can now swallow.

Between 13 and 15 weeks from conception a baby's taste buds are present and functioning.

At 20 weeks and perhaps as early as 16 weeks from her conception a baby is capable of hearing his mother's heartbeat and external voices or noises like music from the outside.

At 23 weeks from conception babies have been shown to demonstrate rapid eye movements which are characteristic of active dream states.

At six months from conception a baby's oil and sweat glands are functioning.

At seven months from conception a baby frequently exercises in preparation for birth by kicking and stretching, mothers you know this.

At eight months from conception a baby's skin begins to thicken and the child swallows a gallon of amniotic fluid each day a baby swallows eight a gallon of amniotic fluid each day and often hiccups, this can be detected by ultrasound, by science.

During the ninth month from conception a baby gains about a half a pound a week, per week.

 

With the national presidential elections in the United States coming so close, we have a serious moral obligation to elect candidates who will promise to do everything in their power to protect and safeguard the life of the unborn child.

We need to be that voice that speaks and yes, votes for that child that can't vote.

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