Contents
- 1 What is the environment in which the fetus lives in its mother's womb?
- 2 What does breathing depend on
- 3 How does oxygen reach the baby while he is in his mother's womb
- 4 When does the stage of relying on the mother end with breathing?
- 5 When does lung growth begin in the fetus?
- 6 What are the lungs made of?
What is the environment in which the fetus lives in its mother's womb
The child inside his mother’s womb does not have two full lungs to breathe through, so how can he breathe and survive the nine months? Let's find out about it together:
The environment in which the fetus lives in its mother’s womb is a fluid in which it swims, in addition to the fact that the mother is an aid in the fetus’s breathing process. Usually and within the natural breathing of a person, which is the exchange of gases through the lungs and blood circulation, through the bloodstream, which carries oxygen and nutrients to the body and helps remove and expel waste out of the body as carbon dioxide.
What does breathing depend on
Natural breathing depends on inhaling the air by inhalation, and exhaling it by exhaling through the lungs, which move up and down respectively, and all these processes are not possessed by the fetus, but it is under the limitation of this part, like other parts, and the umbilical cord and placenta that connect the mother to her fetus are the most important means of assistance that contribute to the process Breathing for this fetus.
How does oxygen reach the baby while he is in his mother's womb
The mother's blood circulates through the circulatory system to the placenta and carries with it the nutrients to the fetus, and it also carries oxygen, as well as the expulsion of carbon dioxide from the fetus with the rest of the waste that also passes through the circulatory system so that the blood carries it through the umbilical cord and the mother's placenta out of her body.
When does the stage of relying on the mother end with breathing?
The mother-dependent breathing phase ends from the first moment of his birth, once the umbilical cord connecting the mother and her son is cut, and this moment is the first breathing moment in which the child uses his lungs for the first time, and it may be easy for some fetuses and difficult for others, so doctors intervene and start subjecting him For ventilator operations, or cleaning the air passages that may be caused by blockage of the fluid that surrounded him while he was in his mother's womb.
When does lung growth begin in the fetus
Lung growth in the fetus begins during the first embryonic stages, in the first four weeks of gestational life, as it is a few cells that are later differentiated to start working after birth, as mentioned above.
What are the lungs made of?
The lungs contain a network of air tubes that work to enter oxygen into the tissues of the lungs and carry carbon dioxide out of the body, as it passes through its entry through these tubes and then enters the air sacs that are located at the ends of the tubes where gases are exchanged between the lung and the circulatory system. Then, oxygen enters the air sacs and then into the capillaries, and carbon dioxide passes from the capillaries to the air sacs and is transported outside the lungs.
