Before each baby is born, it grows and conceives in the mother’s belly. The mother is connected with the baby through the umbilical cord and delivers all the nutrition to the baby. Let the baby wave comfortably in the amniotic fluid ~
But Baopa and Baoma, will you wonder how the baby’s other physiological functions work in the mother’s belly?
For example… will you pee and poop?
The answer is Y-E-S
Shh, shh, where is it?
From the third month of pregnancy, the baby will urinate and begin to swallow amniotic fluid.
Wait a minute, does it mean that the baby drank his own urine in his mother’s stomach for seven months?
In fact, it is not as disgusting as you think. When the baby’s urine is in the mother’s belly, it is different from that after birth. At this time, urine is sterile and does not contain pathogenic bacteria.
More importantly, the wastes we excrete through urine after birth, such as excess nitrogen, will be filtered by the baby and transported to the pregnant mother through the umbilical cord, which will help excrete them out of the body.
What about poop?
It was also taken care of by my mother!
During pregnancy, the mother helped the baby to take care of [eating] and [pulling]. The mother will digest the food she ate first, It is converted into sugar and protein and absorbed into the blood. These digested nutrients are delivered directly to the baby through the umbilical cord. Most of the food residue will remain in the mother’s digestive tract and be excreted through the mother’s stool.
However, the baby’s gastrointestinal tract is not completely empty, what is not. Probably in the third month of pregnancy, some skin and intestinal exfoliated cells, fetal hair and fat, gastrointestinal mucus and amniotic fluid solid components may enter the baby’s intestinal tract and be digested and decomposed. Then green, sticky stool is formed in the baby’s intestinal tract.
However, this so-called stool is not what we imagined as [excrement]. In fact, it is only a small amount of clean and sterile [impurities] floating in amniotic fluid, but these [impurities] happen to come from the baby’s intestinal tract.
In the early stage of pregnancy, the baby will not control his anus, and a small amount of fetus will be discharged into the amniotic fluid. These impurities are swallowed by the baby when the amniotic fluid is swallowed, or absorbed by the mother through the fetal membrane and then treated by the baby.
By the 16th to 20th weeks of pregnancy, the baby can slowly control the anus by himself. In the 20th to 34th weeks of pregnancy, the baby seldom defecates in the mother’s stomach.
In most normal cases, the accumulated fetus in the baby’s belly will be discharged after the baby is born. I’m afraid these sterile fetuses are the first and last clean poop after the baby is born… … …
Therefore, the baby was really raised by the precious mothers by soaking excrement and urine.