Why can we not go into water after birth without drowning?or can we?
2007-03-05 09:22:15 · 25 answers · asked by mean evil woman 7 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Other - Pregnancy & Parenting
Isn't the whole process fascinating? I have no answer except to say the human body is a miracle!
2007-03-06 02:06:37 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
A baby in the womb doesn't use his lungs this is why they can't "drown" , they get oxygen and food from the umbilical cord. The first time they use their lungs is when they are born and take their first breath. After that the cord is cut since its function has ended.
2007-03-05 09:26:01 · answer #2 · answered by Anna 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Outside the womb we get our oxygen supply through breathing air into our lungs and absorbing the oxygen from the air into our bloodstream.
The baby gets it's oxygen supply directly through the umbilical cord via it's mother. It doesn't need to breathe at all in the womb so it can't drown.
2007-03-05 09:28:26 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babies are getting all their oxygen directly from their mother's blood flowing through the umbilical cord. They don't have to depend on their lungs to breathe until they are born.
Some mothers choose to give birth in warm water, which may be less of an inital shock to the baby, but even still, once the cord is cut, they are breathing on their own with their lungs - like the rest of us.
2007-03-05 12:26:21 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Until you can breath air,which a baby in the womb doesnt until the day its born,you cant drown,because your not sucking the water into your lungs by breathing in.This breathing in doesnt happen until the unbilical cord (your belly button and your mums )is cut between the mother and child.Then the baby breathes.And this is after the baby has been born.
2007-03-05 09:29:08 · answer #5 · answered by patsy 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually the lungs have fluid in them at birth I believe. A baby has little plugs in the nostrils as well that the doctor usually suctions out as soon as the head is out. That's a good question. I know women have water births all of the time, but the baby is still removed quickly from the water.
2007-03-05 09:25:35 · answer #6 · answered by mama 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In the womb a fetus "breathes" through the umbilical chord. In the later months, it works its lungs by "breating" the fluid, but this is just to work the muscles, and not for respiration.
It does not take its first breath of air until after it is born.
2007-03-05 09:26:22 · answer #7 · answered by Vegan 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the umbilical cord keeps a baby from drowning in the womb. this is what allows the baby to breath through its mother. once its cut it has to depend on its own lungs to breath.
2007-03-05 09:27:46 · answer #8 · answered by anime girl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we could if we were having a large bore continuous transfusion of oxygenated blood, which a baby has. Babies don't breathe or need to in the womb. That's why they don't drown. They get their oxygen and get rid of their carbon dioxide through gas exchange at the placenta.
2007-03-05 09:26:21 · answer #9 · answered by All hat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Breathing, respiration, serves to oxygenate the blood. When we are in the womb, as we all have been, our mother's blood is oxygenated by her lungs and the blood is pumped through the umbilical cord into our body, thus giving us oxygen.
Our autonomic system keeps us form breathing in the womb and kicks in respiration when we're born.
2007-03-05 09:29:02 · answer #10 · answered by Matthew L 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The baby "breathes" amniotic fluid in the womb. But, once exposed to oxygen the lungs switch functionality immediately.
2007-03-05 09:25:06 · answer #11 · answered by Heather Y 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋