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Being Born
Test-tube baby
If a mother has blocked Fallopian tubes, sperm cannot reach the egg ...
Seeing double?
There is about a one in 80 chance of a mother having twins. There are ...
Blue genes?
The instructions in your chromosomes are called genes. Half come from ...
Boys and girls
Inside your cells are tiny threads, called chromosomes. These carry ...
Amazing But True
The most babies ever born to one mother is said to be 69. Between ...
Blood boom
During pregnancy, the amount of blood in a mother's body may increase ...
Life support
In the uterus, the baby gets food and oxygen from an organ called the ...
At a stretch
The mother's uterus is made of strong muscle. It has to stretch as ...
DID YOU KNOW?
Egg cells are the biggest human cells. Ten would fit across a ...
Getting together
For a baby to form, a sperm cell from a man must join with a woman's ...