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Questions:
Related to The Nine Months That Made You:
1. Describe hypophosphatasia.
2. Describe with details how babies get oxygen prior to birth.
3. What did the study about reading books to unborn babies suggest?
4. Although the island people we met on the film are color blind, what happens to their vision when the sun goes down?
5. How does the risk of developing diabetes change when someone born in a rural village then moves to the city, according to the documentary?
6. Discuss the idea that 'the fetus adapts to the food a mother eats'.
7. How does the methylation process affect our bodies?
8. What are the risks children face when their mothers are under high stress during pregnancy?
Tasks related to textbook:
9. Explain some of the risks faced by premature and low-birth-weight babies?
10. Have you or a family member had to adjust to the waking and sleeping patterns of a baby? Do you think it is normal to occasionally resent being awakened repeatedly throughout the night? Explain your thoughts.
11. Describe each of the neonate's senses (sight, hearing, taste, touch, smell).