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How does a developing baby get food and oxygen during the pregnancy?
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∙ 8y ago
Baby gets food and oxygen through the umbilical cord. This umbilical cord is attached to the placenta. This placenta is attached to the uterus. In the placenta blood of the mother comes close to the blood of the fetus. There is transfer of food and oxygen to the blood of fetus from the blood of mother. Carbon bi oxide and waste products of metabolism are transferred to the blood of mother from the blood of fetus.
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∙ 15y agoThe baby is attached to a umbilical cord that gives the baby food and oxygen.
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∙ 14y agoThe umbilicus. The mother and fetus share a blood supply and food supply.
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∙ 8y agoThe fetus get oxygen and nutrients by way of the mother's blood which goes through the placenta.
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Where does a developing baby get their food and oxygen from?
A developing baby gets its oxygen from the blood traveling through the umbilical cord.
What is the placentas role?
The placenta provides your developing baby with a supply of blood, oxygen, and nutrients vital to a healthy baby! The placenta is fully developed by your 18th week of pregnancy. The placenta also carries waste including carbon dioxide away from your baby. The quality of function of your placenta is dependent upon how healthy you are, this is why it is important to keep your blood and oxygen as clean as possible especially during pregnancy (which is why you should not drink or smoke during pregnancy). The placenta keeps harmful materials away from your baby including infections but the body does not always recognize these harmful substances which is another reason you should not drink,smoke or take drugs during pregnancy.
What can be done to increase oxygen in blood during pregnancy?
Sometimes during labor, the baby isn't getting enough oxygen, so the doctors give the mother an oxygen mask to increase the amount in the blood to get it to the baby.
What is the name for the special care a woman and her developing baby need during a pregnancy?
The proper term is "pre-natal care".
What is the Meaning of Singleton Intrauterine Pregnancy?
A singleton intrauterine pregnancy is a normal pregnancy with one baby / fetus, developing in the uterus.
What exchanges between the a mother and baby during pregnancy?
Oxygen and nutrition goes to baby from mother. Carbon bi oxide and waste products of metabolism goes to mother from baby.
Do the umbilical cord only provides oxygen from the mother to the developing baby?
they do
What is developing during the first trimester?
a baby
What is determined by the 20 week ultrasound during pregnancy?
The 20 week ultrasound will determine if the baby is developing normally. The baby's size and the position of the umbilical cord will show. It is also possible to find out the baby's sex at 20 weeks.
Pregnancy and pills not to take during 3 to 4 weeks pregnancy?
Some medicines can cause birth defects very early in pregnancy, often before you even know you are pregnant. Creating a treatment plan for your health condition before you are pregnant can help keep you and your developing baby healthy.because drugs taken by a pregnant woman can reach the fetus and harm it by crossing the placenta, the same route taken by oxygen and nutrients, which are needed for the growth and development of fetus
What sex is a baby when developing?
All human fetuses start as female. At various points during pregnancy, testosterone may be introduced into the womb; this will result in "masculinizing" the fetus.
What is the placenta used for?
The placenta provides your developing baby with a supply of blood, oxygen, and nutrients vital to a healthy baby! The placenta is fully developed by your 18th week of pregnancy. The placenta also carries waste including carbon dioxide away from your baby. The quality of function of your placenta is dependent upon how healthy you are, this is why it is important to keep your blood and oxygen as clean as possible especially during pregnancy (which is why you should not drink or smoke during pregnancy). The placenta keeps harmful materials away from your baby including infections but the body does not always recognize these harmful substances which is another reason you should not drink, smoke or take drugs during pregnancy.
