Why can’t we put premature babies back in?

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This is going to sound dumb, but with modern technology, why can’t we place a premature baby back in the womb and make some sort of drug to delay labor until the child is fully-baked?

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In the mother’s uterus, the baby is contained in something called the placenta. In birth, the placenta is ruptured and then ejected from the woman’s body. It’s pretty trivial to put a baby in an NICU unit in a hospital. Engineering some kind of artificial placenta and putting a baby into it and back into the mother’s body might as well be magic.

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