Users can either watch an animated video that progresses through each day of development or they can click through each week at their own speed. When clicking through the weeks, users will be able to read notes on the screen that describe certain aspects of the child’s development.
At the eight-week stage, one note says: “At eight weeks, (six weeks from fertilization) brain waves can be recorded.”
At the 15-week stage, another note says: “Teeth! At 15 weeks, tooth development begins.”
Bennett said the website was made with the help of medical doctors and other medical professionals. She added that its production was in response, in part, to the misinformation about life in the womb that often circulates, such as the idea that a preborn baby is just a “clump of cells.”
“So we really wanted to combat this misinformation with groundbreaking, medically accurate, beautifully animated images of the baby growing in the womb to educate people, but also to give them an eye-opening, enlightening experience where they get to see what is really going on,” she said.
“That’s why we call it a window to the womb,” she said.