It’s on the baby’s stomach. How does it make air get into its lungs? The placenta is filled with fluids and stuff, so how does the baby breathe with a thing connected to it’s stomach? It also provides food, but how?
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> How does it make air get into its lungs?
It doesn’t. The umbilical cord delivers oxygen directly through the blood, bypassing the need for lungs altogether. In fact, fetuses’ lungs don’t get fully developed until the 8th month of pregnancy or so.
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