Is this thing part of a woman? does it go back in the woman or does it all come out? I don't get it|!
2007-05-27 12:24:58 · 21 answers · asked by Erutpar 1 in Pregnancy & Parenting ➔ Pregnancy
It is attached to the placenta, and the placenta comes out after the baby is born. The cord is cut, separating the placenta from the baby, and a stub is left which dries and falls off in a few days or a week, leaving the belly button.
2007-05-27 12:28:04 · answer #1 · answered by Take A Test! 7 · 7⤊ 1⤋
The umbilical cord contains stem cells, which have all kinds of life-saving medical uses. The placenta is biological waste.
The placenta was the filter between the mother and the fetus. It's how the fetus received oxygen and nutrients, and how it excreted waste products. It was attached to the uterine wall. The umbilical cord was an extension of the placenta, used to connect the fetus to the placenta and still allow the fetus to move around in utero. A few inches of the umbilical cord is left attached to the newborn child, so that it can be tied off. It dries up and falls off on it's own, and the not itself is the navel, aka the umbilicus.
2007-05-27 12:37:31 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
See the sources below for specific information...
From personal experience, the umbilical cord (which connects the mother and the baby inside the womb [uterus]) is expelled and disposed of along with the after-birth [placenta] after the baby is delivered.
The articles below may help you to understand the complexities of the process...the first source has a photo showing the umbilical cord attached to the newly born baby.
2007-05-27 12:36:04 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The umbilical cord and placenta are delivered after the baby and are discarded as medical waste. They are not part of a woman's body and do not remain inside the uterus after childbirth.
With my second child, I donated the blood from his umbilical cord to a stem cell bank. They keep cord blood and use it to treat certain types of cancer and blood-borne illnesses. Its completely free. Since the umbilical cord is just thrown away, there's no sense in not trying to use the cord blood for a good cause.
2007-05-27 12:32:07 · answer #4 · answered by Jes 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
the trash.
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After the delivery of the baby, the excess umbilical cord blood is collected from the discarded umbilical cord and placenta. It is then donated to a state wide public cord blood bank. The umbilical cord blood can be used in place of bone marrow for life saving transplants in patients with cancers such as leukemia.
2007-05-27 12:32:50 · answer #5 · answered by margimo 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The umbilical cord is attached to the placenta & after the cord is cut at birth, the placenta & the rest of the cord are expelled from the woman's body & discarded.
2007-05-27 12:33:42 · answer #6 · answered by Shortstuff13 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Umbilical cord is discarded once the baby comes out.
They have been studying the umbilical cord to be used in stem cell research lately.
2007-05-27 12:31:50 · answer #7 · answered by TAMPABAYLADY 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the cord doesnt go back into the woman what happens after the baby is born they will take a look at it and see if there was any problems during pregnancy and so on after that they get ride of it cause it is useless or they may donate the cord blood
2007-05-27 12:33:45 · answer #8 · answered by feif_1202 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Here is a photo of the placenta. The baby grows inside the sack, where the cord is attached. The placenta itself is attached to the womens uterus, and right after the baby is born the placenta detaches and is delivered.....hope this helps you understand....
http://pregnancy.about.com/od/fetus/ss/placentaexam.htm
2007-05-27 12:38:14 · answer #9 · answered by ME 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
now and back this is not thoroughly healed whilst the twine falls off. It feels like a similar way my toddler's grow to be and it took forever for hers to heal. save it sparkling, yet carry off on the tub for some extra days. The white mass you're seeing is probably purely area of the twine that keeps to be moist. it is going to fall out after it dries too. If it would not heal quickly or it seems annoyed/contaminated, call the scientific expert, they have a cream they use to dry it out.
2016-10-08 23:11:29 · answer #10 · answered by layden 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋