Yes and No. During the normal course of a pregnacy, No. The mothers and babies blood does not mix or circulate together. The umbilical cord attaches to the placenta. The placenta is the "container" that keeps the baby "isolated" from the mother. The fetal blood flows through the baby, out the umbilical cord to the placenta and no further.
The placental membrane separates maternal blood from fetal blood.
Oxygen and nutrients in the maternal blood in the intervillous spaces diffuse through the walls of the villi and enter the fetal capillaries. (this unfortunately means that bad things like alcohol and drugs diffuse through the membrane, also.)
Carbon dioxide and waste products diffuse from blood in the fetal capillaries through the walls of the villi to the maternal blood in the intervillous spaces.
Just like the walls of your own digestive system, the food you eat does not come into direct contact with your blood, but the nutients get into your blood and are transferred to all parts of your body. Now for the Yes part of the answer. Certain circumstances can cause them to mix, like miscarriage, abortion, and birth. This is when diseases can be transmitted, or problems with blood RH incompatibility can occur, but that's a whole other WikiSubject.
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∙ 13y agoBecause there is always the chance the mother and child have incompatible blood types that would cause her to develop antibodies to the baby's blood - causing her body to treat the baby as a foreign invader- the antibody from the mother may enter the bloodstream of the baby causing destruction of his or her red blood cells - meaning the child would become severely anemic.
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∙ 12y agoYes, it is possible. If this happens and you have what is known as an "ABO/Rh incompatibility", the mother is treated with anticoagulant medication such as Heparin to stop the agglutination of the erythrocytes
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∙ 15y agoNo, they come very close but they never mix
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∙ 14y agoBecause the mother's blood is pumped around her body under a lot of pressure, which would damage the delicate foetus.
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∙ 14y agono......... but in RH incompatibility its mix after birth of baby.....
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∙ 13y agothe baby will still be conceived but after an abortion of some sort the baby will be mostly likely dead
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to prevent the blood to dot
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∙ 14y agoNot under normal conditions
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∙ 11y agofetal development
nutrition for fetus no blood mix thru mother and fueetus
blood flow from the mother to the fetus
The blood of a human fetus does not mix with the blood of the mother. Instead, nutrients and oxygen are exchanged through the placenta via diffusion. This exchange allows the fetus to receive essential substances from the mother's bloodstream while maintaining separate circulatory systems.
it is the interface between the fetus and the mother's blood supply it acts like a filter - supplying nutrients to the fetus and disposing of waste material from the fetus to the mother all of this without actually mixing the blood of the fetus and the mother
The mother and baby do not share the same blood circulation during pregnancy. Oxygen and nutrients are transferred from the mother to the baby through the placenta, a temporary organ that develops during pregnancy. The mother's blood and the baby's blood do not mix.
Yes, there is no danger to the fetus is the mother is type A and baby is type B
The human embryo receives blood from the mother through the placenta. The mother's blood in the placenta carries nutrients and oxygen that are exchanged with the embryo's blood for waste products. The father's blood does not directly provide blood to the embryo.
Oxygenation of fetal blood occurs in the placenta, where the mother's bloodstream and the fetus's bloodstream come into close proximity but do not mix. Oxygen from the mother's blood diffuses into the fetal blood, while carbon dioxide diffuses from the fetal blood into the mother's blood for elimination.
The blood is "grown" by the fetus along with the organs and bones. The fetal blood supply is separate from the mother's. The two blood systems interact through the placenta - oxygen and food pass though to the fetal blood from the mother, waste products flow from the fetus to the mother.
Blood from the mother is used by the fetus.
From the mother's blood via the placenta.
Absolutely YES! Substances of good/bad can be transported from what is inhale by the mother to the fetus by the process of "blood flow from the mother to the fetus" or entering the umbilical cord to the fetus .