Thanks to the advancement of technology and science, we have more and more information about what is happening inside the belly of a pregnant woman.
There are several videos that can be seen on the Internet, as well as documentaries (the best known being the “In the womb” of National Geographic), in which computer generated animations help us understand how an ovule and a sperm end up being a pretty Baby.
Now we can see also, in full detail and thanks to the same tools, how babies face is formed, observing the different phases that an embryo passes through until its face is clearly recognizable as that of a human.
If you look at the eyes, they appear on the sides of the head, the upper lip, the upper jaw and the palate are born from lateral structures, similar to the gills of the fish, which are called gill arches and are passed to the anterior area from the neck, where it joins the nostrils and the middle part of the lip that descend from the top of the head.
The point where the three sections meet is the cleft in the upper lip (explained at the beginning of the video), just below the nose, whose name is nasolabial groove and that has no known function.
Watching the video is easy to think that, if at any time there is any mismatch or problem, the most common malformations we know will appear: cleft lip or cleft palate, or other types of more severe and worrisome malformations, perhaps.
In short, the video is very curious because thanks to it we can see what are the beginnings of the embryo and know the name of the first structures, which they relate us to fish and life under the sea.
