2006-07-25 23:08:39 · 19 answers · asked by Lyrixsta 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
The baby gets oxygenated blood through the umbical cord, not oxygen - as air, like a ruddy scuba diver!
2006-07-25 23:19:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Don't ever believe those pro-choice people that a baby is not a baby before it's born. It does "breath" the water, but not like a fish does by any means. The lungs actually move in and out as if the baby were breathing. This is practicing for the real thing. The muscles have to be ready by the time the baby is to be born or machines have to help baby breath afterwords. And they don't typically slap the baby after it's born, either!
Oxygen does come through the umbilical cord and is absorbed into the blood stream. That is where oxygen really needs to get to is our blood. It keeps our organs alive. That's why it's so important that pregnant ladies don't smoke, breath second-hand smoke, or inhale any other potentially toxic air/perfumes/cleaners, etc. This can permanantly damage the baby in many different ways.
Go to babycenter.com if you have any more questions about pregnancy, etc.
2006-07-26 06:23:36 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Wow, some of the answers people think up here. Breathing in water? lol.
First of all the womb isnt even filled with water. Its more like salt-water, but not even that. Amniotic fluid is really the only way to describe it.
As others said, the baby recieves all of its oxygen from the oxygen dissolved in its mothers blood, through the umbilical cord. Lungs, and even the mouth, arent opened until birth.
2006-07-26 06:14:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Most of your "answers" came from poor guesses. We aren't breathing liquid. We are not fish with gills to filter oxygen. The umbilical cord brings blood and nutrients to the baby, oxygen is in there, too.
2006-07-26 07:00:04 · answer #4 · answered by viclyn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
For the first 6 months oxegen is passed through the umbilical cord and from 6 months baby practices breahing in the womb to strenghen their lungs for birth. But even though they are breathing in the amnotic fluid they still need the oxegen from the umbilicail cord aswell. Their is a small amount of oxegen in the amnotic fluid.
2006-07-28 09:30:51 · answer #5 · answered by philrock 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oxygen is provided by the umbilical cord
2006-07-26 19:24:23 · answer #6 · answered by onlyme 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Simply oxygen is carried around our bodies by red blood cells, so the foetus gets it's oxygen from the mother's blood via the umbilical cord and doesn't breathe.
2006-07-26 10:05:32 · answer #7 · answered by Mike10613 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Oxygen and blood supply is carried from the Placenta by the umbilical cord to the baby... the baby's lungs are filled with amniotic fluid which is dispelled during its birth by taking its first breath...which is why they always sound a litle rattly...
2006-07-26 06:14:36 · answer #8 · answered by Saccharin 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Both, actually. Babies practice breathing while in utero, but their oxygen is provided by the umbilical cord.
2006-07-26 06:13:03 · answer #9 · answered by The Apple Chick 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
oxygen is provided by the umbilical cord
2006-07-26 06:10:25 · answer #10 · answered by stingub40 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋