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How does a fetus excrete waste?

Updated: 10/6/2023
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14y ago

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The fetus can excrete urine into the amniotic fluid but there is very little waste in it. The mother's body works to attend to the other exchanges. Because babies are not eating, there is no waste as we know it. Unborn babies in distress may pass meconium, a dark sticky substance which lines the bowel, and is usually passed in the first days after the birth but is different to feces.

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13y ago

It urinates because it swallows small amounts of amniotic fluid, and because its kidneys are fully functional, filtering toxins from the blood stream; it then passes urine back into the amniotic fluid.

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14y ago

No. But, the mother secretes that of the fetus and her.

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15y ago

yes it always does!

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