About the author:
Katarina Vestre is a biochemist and a doctoral candidate in the Department of Biology at the University of Oslo, Norway.

What this book is about:
A unique chronicle of events about human development from the first cell, where the reader, the main character, learns many interesting, new and unexpected facts about himself and the processes that happened to him 280 days before his birth.

Features of the book:
1) Original presentation of the material: the reader is the main character of the book and its narrative, goes from one primitive cell to childbirth, when the fetus is already fully formed.
2) New details about our intrauterine development that we did not know about before.
3) The design uses modern and step-by-step drawings by the author's sister.

Interesting facts:
- Thank the clumsy process of forming our face for the hollow between our upper lip and nose - it was originally more like a fish!
- We (humans) are completely different from birds and fish, but at the same time, we begin to form in our mother's womb in exactly the same way.
- While in the womb, we remembered all the tastes we tried (or rather, the tastes of the dishes our mother tried)
- Our hand was originally similar to a chicken foot with webs, and the tailbone was originally a tail!
- Our fingerprints are unique and were formed in the womb due to the environment surrounding the fetus in the womb.
- Our brain began to be created among the first, but was finished last...
- If You are left-handed - rest assured, in your mother's belly you sucked EXACTLY the LEFT thumb!
- You have already experienced the highest stress in your life. During childbirth.

Expert reviews:

“This wonderful book reveals the mystery of the origin and development of life step by step. Katharina Westre describes at the molecular level, and in an easy form, the stages of the intrauterine life of the embryo and then the fetus. This book is the quintessence of knowledge in cell biology, embryology, obstetrics, genetics, and, in my opinion, it should be of interest to everyone.” - SEDA BAIMURADOVA, Scientific Director of the Scientific Center for Hemostasis, Thrombosis and Fetal Medicine, obstetrician-gynecologist, Doctor of Medicine. sciences, member of the International Society for Thrombosis and Hemostasis ISTH

“Fertilization and the subsequent stages of the formation of a living being is an eternal story that is worthy of a separate epic. In this book, a biochemist researcher from Norway tells how the reader was created in the mother’s womb, in a vital, hypnotic second-person narrative. This book will be useful for those who want to learn something new about themselves or about the world around them, because it is not about pregnancy, but about life.”