Placenta

Delayed Cord Clamping. Does it Help Your Baby? Delayed cord clamping is a procedure where the umbilical cord is not clamped until after the placenta has been birthed or the pulsations have stopped which could take about three minutes after birth. This increases the blood flow from the placenta to the newborn causing and increase in the baby’s blood volume. Since there is more blood flow that means that there is more iron and oxygen in the baby’s system, which is key for healthy brain…

customs that stood out to me was the burial of the placenta, it stood out to me because there was a difference on the treatment of a boy’s placenta and a girl’s placenta. They believed that the placenta belonging to a male had greater honor, therefore was buried under a home in which the male spirit would look after it and create a strong home. A third custom that stood out to me was the hu plig ceremony…

The various organ systems of the human body work together to maintain homeostasis. Typically, when someone hears the words organ system the first one that comes to mind is the circulatory system. The circulatory system is responsible for transporting oxygen and nutrients in the blood to nearby cells as well as helping with the removal of waste products and carrying them away in plasma. The reproductive system maintains homeostasis by regulating the Ph of the vagina in the female reproductive…

obstetrical care and prevent maternal mortality and morbidity. Postpartum hemorrhage is on of the primary causes of maternal mortality. Postpartum hemorrhage is the heavy bleeding right after the delivery of the baby. It happens before and after the placenta has been removed or delivered, but it also can happen later. A vaginal delivery has an average of 500 ml blood loss while the cesarean delivery has an approximately 1 000 ml…

problems with the baby, like abnormal heart rate, developmental problems and if they are triplets or twins; as well as a very large baby or infection/fever during labor. Lastly this procedure can occur when issues with the placenta or umblical cord happens, for example the placenta covering part of or all of the opening to the birth canal or the umbilical cord comes through the opening of the birth cancal before the baby. Moving on, a C-section is considered a safe procedure. having…

In most cases preeclampsia manifests mid-term or later, but according to contemporary theories the disease has two stages: abnormal placentation and maternal reaction to it. 3.1. Normal and abnormal placentation During normal development of placenta fetal cytotrophoblasts invade maternal spiral arteries. Consequently, these small-caliber resistance vessels transform to high-caliber capacitance vessels. They lose their endothelial lining and muscoloelastic tissue. These changes in architecture…

mother’s body will do all the work that baby’s lungs will do once it is born. This circulation includes the umbilical cord and the blood vessels that are within the mother’s placenta. This carries the fetal blood. When the blood travels through the placenta it will pick up oxygen and become red. The blood will first go through the placenta, by then picking up oxygen before it returns it to the fetus. It will then return to the fetus through the umbilical vein. After this, the blood will then…

inhibition when it comes to the cell cycle. When microRNAs are suppressed, there is no regulation of cell proliferation by cell apoptosis4. Unger et al2 also indicated that in pregnant mice, exposure to alcohol damaged the placenta as well. The damage to the forming placenta may result in the formation of free radicals, leading to oxidative stress in the embryo. During the timeframe of 3 to 8 weeks, or embryogenesis/organogenesis, is a vital period for the embryo since their organs are…

were two methods to perform the procedure. The first being transcervical, which when a catheter is placed through through the cervix, therefore it can reach the placenta to obtain the chorionic villi cells by the form of suctioning. The other method being a transabdominal, where a needle is used and pushed into the abdomen to reach the placenta and attain the required tissue needed.The researchers found that of both forms of chronic villus sampling procedure 97.8 percent cytogenetic diagnosis…

Lee’s first culture shock experience was probably when Lia’s placenta was incinerated. In Hmong culture, the placenta is extremely important to the soul. After the baby is born, their placenta is buried under the parents’ bed if it’s a girl and near the base of the house if it’s a boy. After death, the Hmong believe that the soul floats around from a place to another until it finds the place where the placenta is buried. To have the placenta incinerated came as a shock the Lia’s parents who…