9 Months That Made You

Meet the miracle that is you. See how your time in the womb, as your senses mature, has determined your destiny on the outside. Survey the latest epigenetic research that shows how the womb environment leaves its mark, even altering your DNA.

Learn how you became the unique individual you are. No two people—even “identical” twins—are identical. Through riveting examples, explore how your face was shaped, why you’re likely right-handed, even how your sexuality formed.

Face formation is complex - the upper lip comes from 3 sheets of tissue which must fuse by the 8th week. Baby Oliver's parents decide he will undergo surgery to repair his cleft lip when he is 3 months old.

Lal and Freddie have similar lifestyles, but their mothers had different diets. That may have programmed their metabolisms long before they were born.

Meet the Da Silvas in Brazil. In their family, a genetic mutation from generations ago causes half of them to grow 6 digits on each hand. Something they celebrate and cherish.

Laird Hamilton's desire for risk taking may have been influenced by the amount of testosterone he was exposed to during the fifth month in the womb.

In Gambia an extraordinary 70-year long study has been looking into the seasonal effects of life expectancy - and it has some shocking results. Babies conceived during the dry months are seven times more likely to die in young adulthood than those conceived when it’s wet. And this extraordinary difference may be all down to what a mother – and therefore her fetus - is eating.

Dr. Suzanne King has devised a decades-long study of the worst ice storm in recent Canadian history to better understand how unborn children are affected by stress.

Jonny is one of a small group of people in the Dominican Republic known as 'guevedoces', who are born looking like girls but grow up to become men, all because of a misfiring of the gender defining hormone testosterone long before birth.

A typhoon in the 1770's nearly wiped out the population of Pingelap. The small gene pool has lead to color-blindness spreading throughout 10 percent of the population.

Melanie Gaydos has a genetic condition called Ectodermal Dysplasia, which interfered with the process of cell differentiation incredibly early in her life in the womb, but this has not stopped her fulfilling her dream of becoming an internationally recognized model.

Discover the story of how you were made, from the moment of conception to the moment of birth 280 days later. Follow the gestation process, the most exquisite biological choreography found in nature.