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How is baby connected to mother?
The umbilical cord connects the mother and child. The baby gets oxygen from the mother's blood.
How does the addiction of drugs from the mother get to the baby?
Drugs in the mother's bloodstream pass across the membrane of the placenta, and transfer to the unborn baby's blood by the umbilical cord, which connects the baby to the placenta.
What is the organ formed by the mother's body to nourish the baby and excrete waste products?
The placenta.
What form the lifeline between the mother and the fetus?
The placenta is the organ that connects mother to fetus. It lets nutrients in to nourish the growing fetus and lets waste product out to be discarded by the mother with out ever mixing the blood between the two.
What forms the lifeline between the mother and the fetus?
The placenta is the organ that connects mother to fetus. It lets nutrients in to nourish the growing fetus and lets waste product out to be discarded by the mother with out ever mixing the blood between the two.
When the baby is an embryo where does it get its nutrients?
The mother's blood brings nutrients to the placenta in the wall of the womb. The baby's blood system also connects to this through the umbilical cord. Nutrients leave the mother's blood vessels and diffuse across to the baby's.
The esophagus connects the pharynx with what organ?
Stomach
The esophagus connects the pharynx with which organ?
The stomach.
What is the the function of the umbilical cord?
It connects the baby's blood supply to the placenta embedded in the mother's womb to enable gas and nutritional exchange.
What organ connects the endocrine and nervous systems?
hypothalamus
What organ joins a fetus to its mother?
the placenta. the placenta grows inside the mothers uterus with the umbilical cord attached to it adn the baby. after the baby is born his end of the cord gets cut off, and the mother delivers the placenta and the remaning connected cord. the placenta is the only organ in the body that is grow and disposable.
What does the word umbilical cord mean?
As a fetus gestates within its mother's womb, it is fed by a tube from a temporary organ called the placenta. The tube connects to the baby's belly. When the baby is born the tube is usually tied off and cut, and the remnant dries out and drops off in due course. The place where the umbilical cord was attached is called the navel or belly button.
