From the first day, when a woman finds out that she is pregnant, she immediately begins to worry about her baby. Does he have enough of everything, is he developing correctly and how is he doing there, in his stomach? Therefore, future mothers seek to find out as much as possible useful information about the development of the baby in the womb. A very interesting topic is how a baby eats before birth.
Cell
Everyone probably knows that before their birth every child goes through several phases of development. So, how does the baby eat before birth in its first stage - after the confluence of the egg and sperm until the moment the fertilized cell is fixed in the uterus? The supply of useful substances to the unborn baby occurs due to stocks accumulated in the yolk sac of the egg. They are enough for a week. However, after this time the cell will already have to gain a foothold in the uterus, and the future baby will go to a new level of nutrition.
Embryo
How does the baby eat before birth in the next stage, when the cell has already fixed in the uterus? Here the process that interests us moves to a new, important level: nutrition through the placenta. It should be noted that this type of food intake by the baby in the womb is the most important before the birth of the baby and plays a huge role in its development. So how does this all happen? Everything that mom eats, gets into her blood. And already from her blood with the help of special villi, the placenta captures the nutrients that the baby receives. Knowing how a child eats in the womb, every pregnant woman should carefully monitor her diet so that her crumbs receive as many useful substances as possible. It is also important not to saturate the body of the nascent child with “wrong” food products that do not benefit either the mother or her unborn baby. And you must definitely abandon the consumption of fast food, alcohol and smoking.
Own bodies
How does a baby eat before birth? This can happen through the work of his own internal organs, which are almost completely formed already in the fourth to fifth month of pregnancy. The child will swallow the amniotic fluid, saturated with glucose, amino acids and other useful enzymes, and they will prepare the baby's gastrointestinal tract already for an independent meal. A full-fledged diet, thanks to which the baby’s body will be completely saturated, can not yet be called this type of consumption of useful substances, but everything goes to that.
Breath
In addition to the question of how the baby is fed in the mother’s stomach, women may also be interested in: how does the baby breathe in the womb? If someone says: nothing, mom does it for two, you should not listen to such a person. The baby will take his first independent breath after his birth, while in the womb he breathes again with the help of the same placenta. From the mother’s blood, the placenta, in addition to the useful substances necessary for the baby’s nutrition, captures oxygen, and at the same time gives off carbon dioxide. That's how the baby breathes. It should be noted that the full maturation of the respiratory organs occurs around the 34th week of pregnancy, which is why babies born earlier than this period can have rather big problems due to incompletely opened lungs.