EVERYDAY SCIENCE

Detailed explanation-1: -The placenta helps to keep your baby alive and healthy during pregnancy. Your blood passes through the placenta and provides oxygen, glucose and nutrients to your baby through the umbilical cord. The placenta can also filter out harmful waste and carbon dioxide from your baby’s blood.

Detailed explanation-2: -The primary nutrients crossing the placenta are glucose, lactic acid, free amino acids, free fatty acids, and ketone bodies. Under normal circumstances, it appears that glucose is the primary energy source.

Detailed explanation-3: -The placenta is an organ that develops in the uterus during pregnancy. This structure provides oxygen and nutrients to a growing baby.

Detailed explanation-4: -In these early weeks, the embryo attaches to a tiny yolk sac. This sac provides nourishment to the embryo. A few weeks later, the placenta forms in full and takes over the transfer of nutrients to the embryo. Cells from the placenta grow deep into the wall of the womb.

Detailed explanation-5: -Umbilical cord. A rope-like cord connecting the fetus to the placenta. The umbilical cord contains 2 arteries and a vein. It carries oxygen and nutrients to the fetus and waste products away from the fetus.