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In the womb 18
All her vital life systems are now working independently and the umbilical cord can be cut. The placenta is now redundant and in the third stage of labor, it detaches from the uterine wall and follows the baby’s out through the vagina. After growing painstakingly inside her womb for nine months, the baby finally comes face to face with her mother. The sweet smile seen inside the womb is gone now, as the baby is thrust into a noisy, bright world and starts to feel uncomfortable sensations like cold and hunger. Her smile won’t be seen again until she is at least 4 weeks old. Each year around the world, about 130 million women go through the complex cycle of pregnancy and birth. Our increasingly sophisticated understanding of the process has drastically reduced the risks for both mother and baby.
孩子所有的生命系统现在开始独立工作，脐带也可以剪断了。胎盘已经没有用，在分娩的第三个阶段它就从子宫壁上分离下来，跟着孩子一起穿过阴道。在子宫里努力生长了九个月后，孩子终于与母亲见面。孩子在子宫里的甜美笑容现在荡然无存，因为她被带进了一个喧闹、光鲜的世界，而且开始有不舒服的感觉，比如寒冷和饥饿。她的笑容至少要四周后才能看到。每年全世界大约有1.3亿个妇女要经历从怀孕到生产的复杂过程，随着人们对这一过程越来越深入了解，母亲和孩子所承受的风险被大大降低。
And now for this little girl, after 9 months in the womb, and a healthy delivery, she’s on her own. Her parents will feed her and keep her warm, but for the first time, her body must keep itself alive. She’s gone from egg to embryo, to fetus, to trillions of cells of newborn baby. Her birth marks the beginning of her journey in the world, but she’s already traveled an incredible path during her nine-month odyssey(长期的冒险旅行) in the womb. Protected by her mother and following her own unique genetic blueprint, she’s grown a face, arms, eyes and legs. She has a brain and nervous system to control her body, stomach and intestines to digest food and a heart to pump blood. She has learned to breathe, to hear, to feed, to remember and to tell her parents when she’s hungry, tired, happy or in pain or before being born. And now she is ready to face the world.
这个小女孩经过子宫里九个月的生长、健康的分娩后，现在已经独立了。她的父母会喂养她、使她温暖，但是她的身体却第一次要独立生存。她从一个受精卵开始，经历了从胚胎，到胎儿，到几千亿个细胞组成的婴儿的过程。出生标志着孩子生命旅行的开始，不过不可思议的是她已经在子宫里进行了长达九个月的冒险旅行。在母亲的保护下，她根据自己独一无二的基因蓝图，长出了脸蛋、手臂、眼睛和腿。她拥有大脑和神经系统控制身体，让胃和肠消化食物，让心脏跳动运输血液。她已经学会了呼吸、聆听、吮吃、记忆，也会在饥饿、困倦、高兴、痛苦的时候甚至出生前就让父母知道。现在她已经准备好迎接新世界。
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