I'm confused about which feeds the unborn baby.
2007-02-02 15:21:18 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
The mother actually feeds the baby. The nutrients go into the placenta and then through the umbilical cord to the fetus.
2007-02-02 15:38:05 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your body feeds nutrients into the placenta. The umbilical cord is the medium which connects the placenta to your baby. The umbilical cord connects to the baby at the abdomen and nourishes the baby with whatever you have absorbed in your body either through digestion, subligual absorbtion, intravenously, transdermally etc; In short, what ever is being absorbed by you is being absorbed by your baby. Their are a few exceptions however, because their are a few things that do not appear to cross the mother-placental barrier.
2007-02-02 23:31:05 · answer #2 · answered by Kewana C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The placenta is connected to the uterine wall, the umbilical cord is attached to the placenta. They both help feed the baby, the placenta is the filter that keeps the baby's blood and the mother's blood seperate and filters waste from the baby's blood and puts it in the mother's blood and also scrubs co2 from the baby and inputs oxygen and nutrients, the umbilical has blood from the baby going to the placenta and blood coming from the placenta.
So literally, they both do.
2007-02-02 23:25:31 · answer #3 · answered by dakirk123 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The placenta is the part that is nutrient rich and serves as a storage, but the umbillical cord is the actual part how the baby intakes the nutrients from the mother. They can also pass urine and fecal matter this way too.
2007-02-02 23:28:28 · answer #4 · answered by Dr. PHILlis (in training) 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋