The Three Main Stages Of Infant Development

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The shaping process of an infant is an extremely complicated and lovely process that last around 40 weeks sometime shorter or longer than the 40 week with the early fertilization of the egg and completion with the birth of the child. This occurs in three (3) main stages which are the: Germinal, Embryonic and fetal stage. Throughout each of these stages important development occurs. I will be explaining each of these stages describing what takes place during each stage and the time frame of when it occurs.

The first stage is called the germinal stage. This development takes place in the middle of the first 2 weeks after conception. And conception can best be defined of when the father’s sperm enter the mother’s egg. Pregnancy is considered