How food reaches your baby

Food reaches your developing baby through the umbilical cord after being filtered through the placenta.

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[Jenaimedina]

Short, sweet and to the point. Thank you!

[flyby]

My question is, does it go through your intestines before going through the bloodstream & reaching the placenta? Was always curious about this. I’m 33 weeks pregnant & always wondered how the baby seems to get so active while you’re eating unless the food gets to your baby super quickly after digestion.

[flakeycakey]

How does the baby taste the food? I've read babies can taste spice, garlic, carrots and several other flavors? If the food is digested and passed through blood how does it have flavor?

[CM]

I always thought that the other end of the umbilical cord was attached to the mom’s stomach.

Luckily this isn’t the case, since some push it out of course instead of a C-Section.

I know kittens are like this and they eat their placenta, didn’t know us humans had one too.

Of course we don’t eat ours, I don’t think.



I also thought that the belly button is tied, apparently not.

It just heals and we see the result.

[JohnSmithULIR]

So what's the time for all of this to happen, does this happens at real-time while the mother eats/drinks?

[hypersaiyan]

My mom is a Saiyan, and she devoured a lot of food when she was pregnant with me, my brother and sister.

[rivercitylactation]

Just like breastmilk has flavor from what mom eats, I have read that amniotic fluid also has flavor profiles from moms diet 🍏 🍴

[BillMorganChannel]

Let us all give praise to the master designer, God!

[VSSEDragon]

Make perfect sense, like Wi-Fi connection that connect to PC for internet server

[asifazmin]

Are you sure the food goes to baby? Even moms blood and baby's blood is not same. When the blood also cannot pass through, how can food go through Gods creation is amazing. 😊

[tiffanyray]

Found out I'm 1-10 weeks pregnant and I want It to die how can I make this happen?