Sentences with phrase «via the umbilical cord»

One site I read said that during a water birth because, as you said, the baby is still receiving oxygen from the mother via the umbilical cord this means the baby can have its head out of the birth canal but can wait to take a breath.

By contrast, environments that imitate the inside of a uterus continue delivering oxygen to the fetus via the umbilical cord, or directly into the arteries, which could avoid the lung damage.

The placenta has been delivering oxygen and nutrients to your baby via the umbilical cord and once your baby is delivered the uterus will continue to contract to expel it.

Let me explain when you have your glass of wine alcohol moves through the placenta via the umbilical cord.

This is referred to as sensitisation which means the antibodies easily cross the placenta into the baby†™ s amniotic fluid and blood stream via the umbilical cord in future pregnancies.

Luckily, unborn babies get nutrients and oxygen via the umbilical cord, not by breathing it in through their nose and mouth, which may eliminate some fear right there.

Oxygenated blood enters your placenta from your arteries and is sent via the umbilical cord vein to your baby.

«While a baby was still attached via the umbilical cord, doctors attached a pacemaker to the baby's heart.»

the «afterbirth», which supplies the fetus with oxygen and nutrients via the umbilical cord.

With kittens, antibodies (maternal antibody) may be passed from the mother to the kittens via the umbilical cord and via colostrum (the first milk).

Newborn babies have become infected via their umbilical cords and in a recent case a 27 year old was infected during an operation on his broken leg.

What makes mammals» live birth possible is the unique organ called the placenta, which envelops the growing embryo and mediates the flow of nutrients and gases between it and the mother via the umbilical cord.

For the unfamiliar, the concept of eating the placenta — the organ that develops during pregnancy to provide nutrients to the fetus via the umbilical cord — is to fill up on the helpful hormones it contains that drop in the days and weeks after birth.

While still attached to its mother via the umbilical cord, the baby received a temporary pacemaker, which stabilized its dangerously low and irregular heart rate and ensured enough blood flow from the heart to the rest of its body for delivery.

In more severe cases, the placenta — the organ which provides nourishment and protection to the fetus via the umbilical cord — may be severed through the traumatic impact of a car accident.