Mike Teacher
11-21-2003, 11:12 AM
So when I was full-time in the classroom it's time for a term paper teacher I'd be on the internet all the time doing text searches to bust the kids who would copy and paste website stuff as reports.
Anyway, one of these reminded me of whenever the hell it was for you, at whatever age, however you found it, but it might have been something along the lines of this, as to Where Babies Come From:
Fertilization, fusing of male and female gametes to form a zygote, usually occurs in the widest part of the uterine tubes near the ovary. Spermatozoa deposited in the vagina after coitus must travel through the female reproductive tract and intercept the ovum in its first day of passage. The conceptus continues the journey through the Fallopian tube. About three days after fertilization and three or four mitotic divisions, the zygote enters the uterus. It then consists of an inner cell mass that will give rise to tissues of the embryo and an outer cell mass that will form the placenta. Fluid penetrates its intercellular spaces, inflating the cavity within the outer cell mass, producing a blastocyst. By the end of the first week after fertilization, the blastocyst has embedded itself in the endometrium of the uterus, an event called implantation. The expected length of human pregnancy is about 280 days after the onset of last menstruation or 266 days (38 weeks) after fertilization.
Maybe it wasn't exactly that, but I Do remember being very very young and reading this and being like What The F? That's a lot of work.
Anyone find out about all this birds and bees stuff in a similar or unusual way?
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Anyway, one of these reminded me of whenever the hell it was for you, at whatever age, however you found it, but it might have been something along the lines of this, as to Where Babies Come From:
Fertilization, fusing of male and female gametes to form a zygote, usually occurs in the widest part of the uterine tubes near the ovary. Spermatozoa deposited in the vagina after coitus must travel through the female reproductive tract and intercept the ovum in its first day of passage. The conceptus continues the journey through the Fallopian tube. About three days after fertilization and three or four mitotic divisions, the zygote enters the uterus. It then consists of an inner cell mass that will give rise to tissues of the embryo and an outer cell mass that will form the placenta. Fluid penetrates its intercellular spaces, inflating the cavity within the outer cell mass, producing a blastocyst. By the end of the first week after fertilization, the blastocyst has embedded itself in the endometrium of the uterus, an event called implantation. The expected length of human pregnancy is about 280 days after the onset of last menstruation or 266 days (38 weeks) after fertilization.
Maybe it wasn't exactly that, but I Do remember being very very young and reading this and being like What The F? That's a lot of work.
Anyone find out about all this birds and bees stuff in a similar or unusual way?
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