How does the baby breath when its in the belly.... and how does it go to the bathroom ?

Question

How does the baby breath when its in the belly.... and how does it go to the bathroom ?

Answer 1

It doesn't.

Oxygen and nutrients are provided by the umbilical cord. It doesn't need to urinate or defecate due to the efficiency of this method.

Answer 2

The baby receives oxygen through the umbilical cord. The blood that runs thru the mothers body is saturated with oxygen that is passed thru the umbilical cord and to the baby. Which is why its so bad for a mother to smoke because the only breath the baby gets is when the mother breaths oxygen. They dont really go to the bathroom in the womb....i dont really know the answer to the 2nd part! Sorry!

Answer 3

The umbilical chord connects the baby to it's mother from its belly button. Oxygen and food etc go in, it's waste and co2 etc go to the mother who then breathes it out or goes to the bathroom.

Answer 4

It breathes just like a real human being. It gets up and walks itself to the bathroom.

Answer 5

The lungs dont delevop until around 37weeks of pregnancy, and when they go to the bathroom they go right there in the womb, into the fluid they live in.

Answer 6

There's something called the UMBILICAL CORD connecting the mother to the baby. It's exactly what it sounds like, it's a cord/tube.

It transports oxygen and nutrients from the mom to the baby. When the baby has to go to the bathroom, the waste travels in the umbilical cord from the baby to his/her mother.

:) this is why we have bellybuttons.

Answer 7

It dose neither of those thing while it is in the stomach  

Answer 8

thats why babies can breath underwater during water birth

Answer 9

A baby does not truly "breathe" while in the uterus - it is living in a fluid filled environment. It takes it's first breath when it is delivered. While in the uterus, it survives because it is connected to the mother via the umbilical cord.

It goes to the bathroom just like anybody, but only pee. This comes from swallowing amniotic fluid. It does not p**p while in the uterus except occasionally at the very end (meconium) which can actually pose a danger if the baby were to inhale it before or during birth.

Answer 10

The baby doesn't breath the mom breathes for him or her same with waste(at least i would think so[but i'm sure about the breathing]), it travels through the umbilical chord.

Answer 11

they get oxygen through  their bloodstream through the umbilical cord. they do pee, yes this is true. it isn't quite as gross as it sounds. there isn't really anything in their pee. poo is different. they usually dont go until they are born. its that black sticky stuff, the first bowel movement called meconium. if passed while in utero, it can cause sever problems in baby, such as pnemonia. which is potentially life threatening.

Answer 12

They go in your tummy....and they breathe through the umbilical cord.  

Answer 13

iT JUST BREATHES REGULAR AND JUST PEES REGULAR YES I KNOW ITS KNOW DISCUSTING BUT TRUE THEY DONT p**p UNTIL THEY ARE ALMOST BORN....

GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS

Answer 14

it practices breathing with the amniotic fluid but the oxygen is provided from the umbilical cord.

Answer 15

How Does Baby Breathe?

Labor produces mechanical and physiological changes that help prepare your baby for her first gulp of air. "A fetus doesn't get his oxygen from the air, so he has to get it from his mom," explains Sandy Falk, MD, clinical instructor of ob-gyn at Brigham and Women's Hospital, in Boston. "In utero, oxygen is delivered through the placenta to the baby." But when the baby is born and the umbilical cord is clamped shut, the placenta can no longer do its job, so the lungs take over. In the womb, a fetus's lungs are filled with a fluid that helps them mature. "Labor dries up this fluid so the lungs can expand and fill with air after birth," notes Dr. Auerbach.

Your baby's lungs will also begin pumping more blood through them after she's born. In the womb, the blood bypasses these organs due to pressure. During birth, the pressure in the baby's lungs drops and blood starts flowing through them normally.

http://www.parents.com/pregnancy/labor-d...

Babies do not "poo" in you unless they're in distress. They are not supposed to have a bowel movement until after they are born. All urine is sterile until it reaches air. Babies do urinate in the amniotic fluid, but the amniotic fluid is replaced, exchanged and filtered if you will, about every 2-4 hours. So babies urine does not stay in the uterus, it randomly circulates out with the rest of the amnio fluid. The baby does not stay in the same batch of water for nine months. Just to clarify your question, the baby does not have a direct link to your bladder, and therefore you don't technically pee "for the both of you" when you urinate. It's just a bigger part of the exchange of fluids. It eventaully will come out of you in urination, sweating or breathing (anything that involves water escape from your body).

Answer 16

The baby does not breathe in the uterus, its oxygen is pumped through the umbilical cord. The baby does pee in the uterus, but since its not having and solid food or even milk it doesn't p**p (although it can through delivery, but that's a different story).

Answer 17

The baby does get oxygen (and nutrients) from the oxygen rich blood that comes through the umbilical cord.

And the baby does send waste back out through the umbillical cord.

But they DO urinate in utero...the fluid produced by the kidneys is, in large part, the Amniotic Fluid.  It's sterile (as it's not exposed to oxygen or bacteria), and the baby swallows it in, and urinates it back out (along with other fluid wastes left over from processing the nutrients in the umbillical cord).  This is how the digestive/lungs and urinary system are developed.  Pretty incredible huh?

Answer 18

everything with waste and nutrients goes through the umbilical cord... strangely enough, before we are born we can breath in the amniotic fluid.

well technically the fetus also swallows the fluid and digests it, and may excrete some waste into the amniotic fluid, but amniotic fluid is also defined as having waste product from the fetus in it. But many waste products are also sent back through the unbilical cord with the deoxygenated blood.

Why when you give a correct answer do you get that many thumbs down...

I read it in a medical book in college,  while the placenta, the baby will ingest and technically breathe in the amniotic fluid. This is consistent of natural nutrients and some waste. The waste is filtered through the placenta wall which has a soft thin membrane on the inside so that amnioric fluid can get out to dispose of SOME of the waste products. This is because it is swallowing the amniotic fluid and digesting it. Some of which is filtered and passed through the body into urine of some sort, but the child also disposes of waste products through the umbilical cord through the veins. There are usually two umbilical arteries that carry nutrients in and out, there are sometimes one called  Single Umbilical Artery (SUA) which may cause congenital abnormalities (birth defects)

Read up people. I'm not totally wrong I know that.

Answer 19

All processes such as oxygen and carbon dioxide exchange occur through the placenta.

Babies do not actually "breathe". As a matter of fact, while in the womb, their noses are plugged with mucus, keeping amniotic fluid out of the lungs.

The waste products are also eliminated through the placenta.

Sometimes, in late labor, stress can occur to the baby. a baby will sometimes defecate. This waste is

called "meconium".

If a baby, in the process of delivery, inhales the meconium, it could cause chemical pneumonia.

Answer 20

Babies don't actually need to do either of those things when they're in the womb. Breathing gets oxygen for the blood; eating gets nutrients for the blood, and the waste from eating is what we excrete when we go to the bathroom. In the womb, babies get their blood directly from their mother, all oxygenated and full of nutrients. The baby doesn't actually start breathing until it is delivered, and the same goes for eating. :)

Answer 21

they don't breath...they get everything they need through the umbilical cord.  And yes they can use the restroom in there, but i believe it causes complications and leads to having to do an emergency delivery.