Monday, August 31, 2009

Egg Trivia

When the female embryo is only 6 weeks old, it makes preparations for motherhood by developing egg cells. When the baby girl is born, each of her ovaries carries about 1 million egg cells—all that she will ever have.

3 comments:

Angel said...

that is so amzing and freaky at the same time!!!

the dogs' mother said...

You can not say that Mother Nature doesn't plan ahead.

Ms. Moon said...

All that she will ever have and certainly all that she will ever NEED! (Tee-hee)