Life Begins

The ultimate DVD to help expectant families understand and appreciate pregnancy and child birth

Life Begins is a multimedia CD-ROM program developed to teach the physiological processes involved in creating and maintaining human life. This program is designed to be used both in the school system and the home - any place where a clinical, impartial description of the human body, conception, pregnancy, labor and delivery is desired.

Life Begins contains six main sections to explore.Within each section are various related subjects which play an important part in creation and development. The final section, Life Choices, helps young people apply this knowledge through many character-building topics:

Human
Body
Man
Woman
Pregnancy
Labor
and Birth
Life
Choices

Life Begins Features:

Over 1200 different screens
860 indexed topics
278 links
11 graphs
372 glossary terms
22 animations
676 photographs and illustrations
13 slide shows
60 minutes of video

Thirty eight minutes of video footage from ABC's Academy Award nominated documentary, Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn, allows the viewer to actually see the developing unborn at various stages.

The innovative Lockout feature gives parents and teachers complete control over what subjects are accessible at any
given time.

	"Factual, accurate, alive, tasteful - the whole package!"
	John C. Nelson, MD, OBGYN, AMA* President-Elect and Executive Committee Member

Life Begins contains...

Pregnancy

	"I must say, Life Begins is impressive in its sophistication, in its approach to the subject, and especially in the way it relates to its audience (it doesn't 'talk down' to the user)."
	Joey Tamer, International Software Consultant

With conception, a new life begins a precarious journey of remarkable growth. From just one cell, a small human forms with dextrous fingers, delicate eyes and beating heart. And all of this takes place in 40 weeks--just 280 days. At the same time, the woman begins her own journey--a journey of significant physical changes and a journey into motherhood. This remarkable section chronicles human development with fascinating in utero photography and colorful, interactive graphics.

Sample Topics:

Accutane & pregnancy
AIDS & pregnancy
Amniocentesis
Amnion
Amniotic fluid
Birth defects
Blastocyst
Blood incompatibility
Breastmilk
Cell differentiation
Chorion
Conception
Corpus luteum
Down's syndrome
Drug abuse & low birth weight
Ductus arteriosus
Due date
Ectoderm
Ectopic pregnancy
Embryo
Endoderm
Exercise & pregnancy
Ferning
Fertilization
Fetal alcohol syndrome
Fetal circulation
Fetal development
Fetal tobacco syndrome
First trimester
Folic acid
Foramen ovale
German measles
Human chorionic gonadotropin

Illegal drugs and pregnancy
Implantation
Maternal
Miscarriage
Mesoderm
Morula
Neural tube
Nutrition during pregnancy
Placenta
Placenta previa
Placental hormones
Pregnancy tests
Prenatal care & classes
Products of conception
Radiation & pregnancy
Rh factor
Rupture of membrane
Second trimester
Sex determination
Sexual intercourse
Sexually transmitted diseases
Smoking & pregnancy
Spina bifida
Stillbirth
Stretch marks
Teen pregnancy
Third trimester
Twins
Ultrasound
Umbilical cord
Weight gain
Yolk sac
Zygote

Labor & Birth

	"Life Begins is an impressive piece of work. It is the most thorough and complete authority on the process of childbirth that I have seen."
	Patricia Weiss, The Choice of Life

With strength, joy, pain and great expectation, a woman gives birth. No one knows exactly how labor begins, but it results in powerful contractions of the uterus and an equally powerful response from the mother. Their combined efforts produce a force that pushes the baby from the comfortable confines of the womb. See four different birthing scenes (optional lockout). Animated and interactive graphics explain the sequence of labor and the development of the newborn.

Sample Topics:

Accelerating labor
Apgar score
Attachment & bonding
Birth attendant
Birth site
Bottle feeding
Breast feeding
Breastmilk
Breech position
Cesarean birth
Colostrum
Complications
Contractions
Drug abuse & newborn addiction
Ductus arteriosus
Effects of STDs on newborn

Father
First stage of labor
Fontanelles
Foramen ovale
Fourth stage of labor
Hormones of labor
Labor concerns
Newborn circulation
Parenting
Premature birth
Rupture of membranes
Second stage of labor
Signs of labor
Third stage of labor
Umbilical cord
Vaginal birth