4WEEKS:
This week marks the beginning of the embryonic period. From now until 10 weeks, all of your baby's organs will begin to develop and some will even begin to function. As a result, this is the time when she'll be most vulnerable to anything that might interfere with her development.
Right now your baby is an embryo the size of a poppy seed, consisting of two layers: the epiblast and the hypoblast, from which all of her organs and body parts will develop.
The primitive placenta is also made up of two layers at this point. Its cells are tunneling into the lining of your uterus, creating spaces for your blood to flow so that the developed placenta will be able to provide nutrients and oxygen to your growing baby when it starts to function at the end of this week.
Also present now are the amniotic sac, which will house your baby; the amniotic fluid, which will cushion her as she grows; and the yolk sac, which produces your baby's red blood cells and helps deliver nutrients to her until the placenta has developed and is ready to take over this duty.
5WEEKS:
Deep in your uterus your embryo is growing at a furious pace. At this point, he's about the size of a sesame seed, and he looks more like a tiny tadpole than a human. He's now made up of three layers — the ectoderm, the mesoderm, and the endoderm — which will later form all of his organs and tissues.
The neural tube — from which your baby's brain, spinal cord, nerves, and backbone will sprout — is starting to develop in the top layer, called the ectoderm. This layer will also give rise to his skin, hair, nails, mammary and sweat glands, and tooth enamel.
His heart and circulatory system begin to form in the middle layer, or mesoderm. (This week, in fact, his tiny heart begins to divide into chambers and beat and pump blood.) The mesoderm will also form your baby's muscles, cartilage, bone, and subcutaneous (under skin) tissue.
The third layer, or endoderm, will house his lungs, intestines, and rudimentary urinary system, as well as his thyroid, liver, and pancreas. In the meantime, the primitive placenta and umbilical cord, which deliver nourishment and oxygen to your baby, are already on the job.
6WEEKS:
This week's major developments: The nose, mouth, and ears that you'll spend so much time kissing in eight months are beginning to take shape. If you could see into your uterus, you'd find an oversize head and dark spots where your baby's eyes and nostrils are starting to form. His emerging ears are marked by small depressions on the sides of the head, and his arms and legs by protruding buds. His heart is beating about 100 to 160 times a minute — almost twice as fast as yours — and blood is beginning to course through his body. His intestines are developing, and the bud of tissue that will give rise to his lungs has appeared. His pituitary gland is forming, as are the rest of his brain, muscles, and bones. Right now, your baby is a quarter of an inch long, about the size of a lentil.
7WEEKS:
The big news this week: Hands and feet are emerging from developing arms and legs — although they look more like paddles at this point than the tiny, pudgy extremities you're daydreaming about holding and tickling. Technically, your baby is still considered an embryo and has something of a small tail, which is an extension of her tailbone. The tail will disappear within a few weeks, but that's the only thing getting smaller. Your baby has doubled in size since last week and now measures half an inch long, about the size of a blueberry.
If you could see inside your womb, you'd spot eyelid folds partially covering her peepers, which already have some color, as well as the tip of her nose and tiny veins beneath parchment-thin skin. Both hemispheres of your baby's brain are growing, and her liver is churning out red blood cells until her bone marrow forms and takes over this role. She also has an appendix and a pancreas, which will eventually produce the hormone insulin to aid in digestion. A loop in your baby's growing intestines is bulging into her umbilical cord, which now has distinct blood vessels to carry oxygen and nutrients to and from her tiny body.
8WEEKS:
New this week: Webbed fingers and toes are poking out from your baby's hands and feet, his eyelids practically cover his eyes, breathing tubes extend from his throat to the branches of his developing lungs, and his "tail" is just about gone. In his brain, nerve cells are branching out to connect with one another, forming primitive neural pathways. You may be daydreaming about your baby as one sex or the other, but the external genitals still haven't developed enough to reveal whether you're having a boy or a girl. Either way, your baby — about the size of a kidney bean — is constantly moving and shifting, though you still can't feel it.
Life card: My life card told me that i was a drug abuseing parent. There are alot of side afects to doing drugs whaen there is a baby on board iven if ur not the mother cuz there is a lil something called second hand smoke witch is just as harmful. The things that ur putting into ur body dosent even have to be smoe it could be pills or things snorted or injectied directly int ur blood stream and theis can get transmitted to ur baby because the drugs go all throughout ur body even into ur egg and or sperm cell witch causes them to mutate and o becoe deformed causing mofunctions in your baby. so basicly dont do drugs while having a kid tring to have a kid if u already have a kid or ever want to have a kid, cuz chances are if u do, hapen to do drugs the kid is prolly gana end up doing them to and ether getting messed up like you or worse.                               SO JUST SAY NO!!!!

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When i got my life card today it sid that my wife was never pragnet so that means where gana adopt because mike fontana cant get pragnet if he can i want disney. But anyways its all about the experence. We should be getting are baby in the next week.

Task:#2

1.)   Whether genetically engineered foods need to be labelled and if so what should be listed on that label?

These are the two main arguments on this topic:

Agree

Consumers have a right to know whether the food they are eating has been genetically engineered.

Disagree

Genetically modifying foods makes them safer, more nutritious, and better tasting. Requiring labels on these foods gives the false impression that they are unsafe.

Yes it is true that some are making some people safer and tastier, people do deserve to know what they are eating and have the choice between the genetically engineered foods and fresh organic foods. Saying that the GM foods are making foods safer is false to a degree, because some of the pesticides used to make the foods can cause allergies and not knowing that the food your eating is a GM food using these pesticides could be fatal to the consumer because they won’t be able to find out what is causing this reaction.  There for I agree with the labelling of the foods. What I think should be put on the labels is that it is a GM food where it is made and what is used in the growth and or production of the food. This information should be located in a easy to see and easy to read location on the product.

2.)   Whether genetically engineered foods are a hazard to the environment and if so, should they only be allowed under strict government regulation? If stricter government regulations are needed, then what should be listed in these regulations?

GM foods are a great risk and hazard to humans and the rest of the environment. Here are some risks to humans. Toxic, poisonous, an increased risk for cancer of any kind, food allergies, a damage to food quality and nutrition, cause a resistance to certain antibiotics, a increased pesticide residue in the soil and on the crops... I think that the regulations are strict enough  they just need to be enforced more and more efficiently. The only thing that i think that needs work is the labelling of the products. But that goes right along with the regulations being enforced because there are already regulations for the labelling of the products the manufactures just need to starts doing it and the government needs to start making them do it.