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How does the umbilical cord come out of the mom Will it fall out or do you have to cut it out?
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∙ 13y ago
The umbilical cord is attached to the placenta, which develops to nourish the fetus. During gestation, the placenta is attached to the wall of the uterus. However, after the baby is delivered the placenta detaches from the wall of the uterus and is delivered through the mother's vagina via contractions of the uterus like those that delivered the baby. The delivery of the placenta is the third stage of labor.
Complications can arise if the placenta does not detach properly, or if is positioned such that it delivers before the baby. Severe bleeding and maternal death could result.
In Western cultures, the umbilical cord is generally cut soon after the baby is delivered and the placenta and umbilical cord are disposed of following delivery. However, blood stem cells can be harvested from the cord for medical treatments. Also, some cultures allow the baby to remain attached to the placenta and umbilical cord until it degrades naturally. Some people also keep the placenta and have the mother consume it, or they plant it int he ground with a tree to nourish the tree or it is saved as a keepsake.
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What happens to the mothers umbilical cord after its cut?
The umbilical cord comes out of the mother with the placenta.
What is a sentence using the word umbilical cord?
the baby wailed when the doctor cut it's umbilical cord
How do chimps cut the umbilical cord?
Biting it
When should you cut the umbilical cord?
After the baby is born.
What if you have no umbilical cord?
it is not ossible to be born with no umbilical cord. the cord circulates bloood between foetus and mother during time in the womb. babies are born with an umbilical cord which is soon cut off and the end is tied, which is your bellybutton.
Where is donkeys umbilical cord located?
The umbilical cord connects the navel of a fetus with the placenta. When the baby is born the umbilical cord is cut. The belly button is the location where the umbilical cord connected to the placenta.
Does the umbilical cord slide back up once its cut?
No. The umbilical cord is attached to the placenta, which is the sack that the baby grows in. After giving birth, the placenta and the umbilical cord leave the body through the vagina.
How much of the umbilical cord gets cut off at birth?
During prenatal development in mammals, the umbilical cord connects the fetus to the placenta. In humans, the umbilical cord, or birth cord, is about 20 inches long, and is generally clamped and cut at the newborn infant's navel between 1 and 5 minutes after birth.
How are the mother and fetus connected?
The Ambilucal Cord which is cut off a birth by doctors. That's where belly buttons comes from.
What must be cut to separate the baby from the mother after it is born?
The umbilical cord
What must be cut to separate the baby from its mother after it is born?
The umbilical cord
What happens to the umbilical cord right after birth?
It is clamped or tied, then cut.
