A vein in the umbilical cord carries blood and nutrients back to the baby. Your Pregnancy After 35 : How Your Baby Grows and Develops (part 1) - Normal Fetal Development Sometimes women express concern about giving birth to a large baby. Many factors affect how big your baby will be. ...
The placenta, or afterbirth, is the first organ that forms — even before any of your baby's organs — after you conceive. It plays an important role in your pregnancy: It connects you and your baby in the uterus and delivers oxygen,nutrients, and hormones to them. It also takes away ...
The mother had sent her placenta to a company that offers to clean, slice and dehydrate it, then grind it and put it into gelatin capsules, according to the report. It's possible the company—which was not identified—failed to heat the placenta enough to kill germs, the authors said. T...
Nutrients, oxygen, and antibodies (proteins formed in response to a foreign substance, or antigen), as well as other materials in the mother’s blood, diffuse into the fetal blood in the capillaries of the villi, and nitrogenous wastes and carbon dioxide diffuse out of these capillaries into ...