Vitamin K is essential for the formation of blood-clotting factors in the liver. Deficiency of vitamin K leads to prolonged bleeding. When your baby is born, his vitamin K level will be low, as the vitamin does not cross the placenta in great amounts. This is thought to have a protective effect in the womb [...]
The way your baby’s brain responds to sound and the way his auditory pathways are laid down evolves throughout fetal life. There is no doubt that the sounds heard in the womb are essential to help your baby’s auditory cortex develop and mature. His ears are fully formed by around the 20th week of development [...]
Until recently, the awareness and learning potential of a baby in the womb was underestimated and largely ignored in the Western world. The human brain defines us as individuals more than in any other species. It is such a highly complex organ that it needs a long period of development and maturation both in the [...]