How food reaches your baby during pregnancy
Your baby gets food from the umbilical cord, a special tube connected to the placenta in your belly.
- The placenta sticks to your womb's inside wall, acting like a filter between your and your baby's blood.
- It lets good stuff like food bits and oxygen from your blood go to your baby and takes waste away. When you eat, your stomach breaks the food into nutrients like sugars and proteins.
- These nutrients go into your blood, then through the umbilical cord to your baby. Your baby uses these nutrients to grow and makes waste like carbon dioxide.
- The waste goes back through the cord to the placenta and then into your blood. Your body gets rid of the baby's waste through your kidneys and lungs.
- Once your baby is born, they eat and breathe on their own, and the umbilical cord is cut since it's not needed anymore.
Source:-https://www.babycenter.com/pregnancy/your-baby/the-placenta-what-it-is-and-how-it-works_40005564
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