The Story Of Our New Baby (1971)

[Music] Jane and her grandmother are patiently waiting today is a very special day at Jane's [Music] house her parents are bringing her new baby brother home from the hospital Jane has been waiting for him for such a long [Music] time he was growing inside mother for 9 months [Music] everyone is so happy [Music] how long ago it seems since Jane first learned he was [Music] coming nearly 7 months ago Jane was at the doctor's office waiting for her mother to finish talking to the doctor mother found out from the doctor's tests that she was going to have a baby she was pregnant Jane wondered about the baby that was growing inside her mother later at home mother and father explained many things mother had a book that helped Jane understand how the baby got started first there was a tiny cell inside mother's body it's called an egg cell an egg cell looks something like this when you look at it through a microscope but it's hardly as big as a dot an egg is not ready to start growing into a baby until there's another cell even smaller this is a sperm cell and it comes from Father's body millions of sperm cells come into mother's body from father when just one of these sperm cells enters the egg cell the egg cell is fertilized now it's called an egg this egg is the beginning of the new baby then the egg begins to grow by dividing the one cell divides into two cells the two cells divide into four cells they keep dividing soon there are many cells and the Egg keeps growing in the part of Mother's body called the uterus the egg is now called an embryo at four weeks the embryo is about the size of the Eraser on this pencil already the cells are becoming different from each other they will be brain cells and heart cells and other kinds of cells the uterus or womb where the embryo grows is always warm it's filled with a fluid that protects the new baby inside its mother there is also something in the uterus called the placenta the placenta takes food and oxygen from the mother's blood the baby is attached to the placenta by a cord the umbilical cord it's something like a tube the food and oxygen from the placenta go through the umbilical cord to the growing embryo mother ate good foods because the baby depended on her for all the things it needed to grow the doctor gave her vitamins to make sure both she and the baby would be healthy and mother got plenty of fresh air and [Music] exercise this was an exciting time for the whole family [Music] during those first months the embryo was still very small when an embryo is about 2 months old it begins to look like a baby even though it's just an inch long from now on it's called a fetus at 4 months the fetus looks like this in the uterus and as the fetus was growing mother's body was changing her breasts were getting larger so they could make milk when the baby was born mother's abdomen below her stomach was getting bigger as the baby grew now in her sixth month of pregnancy mother was wearing maternity clothes maternity clothes are looser than usual clothes and mother found them more comfortable as her abdomen got larger sometimes the fetus moved mother could feel when that happened she let Jane feel it too it felt like the fetus was kicking at the end of 6 months the fetus had hair eyebrows eyelashes and tiny nails it looked very much as it would look when it was born even though the baby wasn't expected for a few months the family wanted to be sure everything was ready for it a car bed clothes a baby carriage that used to be Jane's when she was a baby and a place to keep diapers and other special things around the 8th month mother got the clothes ready that she would need in the hospital sometimes mothers have their babies at home but most babies are born in hospitals where there are doctors and nurses who know just what to do and so the eighth month passed while the fetus grew inside mother then early one morning mother told Jane the baby was ready to be born it was time for her to go to the hospital she knew because she was having labor pains father had brought grandmother to take care of Jane labor pains are a kind of cramps caused by the uterus as it moves a baby out of a mother soon Jane would know whether the new baby was a boy or a girl the next morning grandmother and Jane read about how babies are born the baby leaves the the uterus passes through a tube called the vagina and comes out of the mother the doctor helps the baby get born so Jane knew how everything would happen at the hospital and then it was father Jane had a new baby brother and mother was fine and now the new baby is home they named him Jeffrey but Jane's going to call him Jeff there are many exciting things to do for the baby mother is still tired from the birth so they all [Music] help before he was born he got the food and everything else he needed inside mother now someone has to feed feed him sometimes mother feeds him milk from a bottle sometimes from her breasts someone has to change him and love [Music] him he doesn't know how to talk yet so he cries when he's unhappy and his stomach is still very small so he has to be fed often mother father and Jane all like taking care of the [Music] baby and the months pass it's fun to watch Jeffrey grow he's beginning to notice things now and smile at people who come near him he's getting bigger and stronger all the time he can move his head and w his arms and legs Jane is so glad there's a new baby at home [Music]