After six weeks, if the baby s lip is tickled, he will pull away. After 10 weeks the baby has fingerprints. After 12 weeks the baby swallows, sleeps, wakes and sucks his thumb. Beyond 12 weeks nothing new is formed. The baby grows rapidly until the ninth month when he will exit the womb, breathe air and take food now by mouth.
Life is continuation of growth from conception until death.
Since Jesus is eternal and part of the Godhead, then from this consideration, too, he was alive in Mary s womb. The mother is just nourishing the baby until he or she can take care of himself or herself. God owns both the body of the mother and of the unborn child. We must answer to God for what we do to our bodies, or to the bodies of others. There is a difference between the mother and the baby.