Module 4 Fertilization to Birth
Completion requirements
Explore the chapters to learn the unit 1 content.
Big Picture
Big Picture
In this module you will continue to help the three couples, Jane & John, Dina & Donald, and Sarah & Sam, who have come to you for help regarding their infertility problems. Further issues will come to light and decisions will need to be made by the couples in order to achieve their goal of having children.
Keep in mind, from notes that you have made from previous lessons, what you have discovered about the couples so far and what treatment options you have provided.
Essential Questions
- What are the normal and abnormal sequences of events through fertilization, implantation, and membrane formation?
- Identify and describe the effects of hormones related to fertilization and pregnancy.
- How are twins formed?
- What major tissues and organs arise from the ecto-, meso-, and endo-derm?
- How do the extra embryonic membranes facilitate the development of the embryo?
- What is the significance of the first trimester?
- What are the major events of each trimester?
- What triggers and what are the stages of the birthing process?
- What controls lactation?
- What technologies are used to assist fertilization, to monitor development and are used during parturition?