When a baby is still in a stomach people say that they have a tail and when there born they don't but to be sure I'm asking you.
2006-11-20 12:37:30 · 17 answers · asked by Sammie 3 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Newborn & Baby
they have an enlarged tailbone, not a tail, and the baby gestates in the uterus, not the stomach.
2006-11-20 12:39:09 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
The tailbone is the last thing to form on the baby when it is inside of you. When it is closing up the way that it looks it resembles a tail. That is why people say they have tails. I asked my doctor when I was pregnant because I was told the same thing.
2006-11-20 20:41:25 · answer #2 · answered by cmsmith114 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
An unborn baby resides in the womb(uterus), not the stomach. They do have what appears to be an extention of the tail bone.
2006-11-20 22:48:32 · answer #3 · answered by pureirony_8 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
very early on in gestation, babies tailbones are more accentuated... mostly because the spine is curved and the arms and legs aren't developed fully. It does look like a tail, and may be refered to as a tail... but it grows into the end of the spine... no tail.
unless you're that guy from "Shallow Hal" ha ha!
2006-11-20 20:41:57 · answer #4 · answered by Cara M 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Everybody has a tail, feel yours is what you call the coxis. The use a a third hand had diminished since we don't climb threes. Also think of your feet smallest toe, its getting smaller and smaller and soon it;s going to disappear.
2006-11-20 21:32:20 · answer #5 · answered by antonioavilakiss 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's not that they have an enlarged tailbone (bottom of spine), it's they they have yet to grow enough to cover their own tailbone, hence...."tail". Although, I think there's an episode of either Seinfeld or X-Files about adults having tails....
2006-11-20 20:42:08 · answer #6 · answered by radioflyer 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
At a very early stage of development they do have a "tail" (the spine develops.)
http://www.wprc.org/trimester1.phtml
2006-11-20 21:19:58 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
an embryo has a tail, it will eventually grow into a tail bone, sometimes just sometimes, babies are born with an undeveloped tail bone, aka a tail.
http://www.robynsnest.com/weekbyweek.htm?snPageName=%23weeks5-8&Submit=View
2006-11-20 20:56:50 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Take a look at these pictures.......looks like a tail that is why people say that.
2006-11-20 20:41:42 · answer #9 · answered by JS 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Mel answered this one for me! It just looks like a tail!
2006-11-20 20:40:10 · answer #10 · answered by Karen B 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋