The maternal womb is an optimal, stimulating, interactive environment for human development.
Activity never ceases and a fetus is never isolated.
These areas of first sensitivity are the ones which will have the greatest number and variety of sensory receptors in adults. By 17 weeks, all parts of the abdomen and buttocks are sensitive. Skin is marvellously complex, containing a hundred varieties of cells which seem especially sensitive to heat, cold, pressure and pain. By 32 weeks, nearly every part of the body is sensitive to the same light stroke of a single hair. The first dramatic motion, one that has come to symbolize life itself, is the first heartbeat at about three weeks after conception.