Placenta

ensure the umbilical cord is out of the way. The birthing stage can last up to two hours. Stage 3: Delivery Of The Placenta Once your baby has been delivered, you'll have an opportunity to hold her. However, your placenta has yet to be delivered. This stage usually takes between ten minutes and half an hour. Your contractions will continue, though they'll be mild. After the placenta has been pushed out, your doctor will inspect it to ensure it is unbroken. If any remnants remain in your…

The birth of a baby is nothing short of a miracle. Holding your newborn baby in your arms for the first time is an indescribable feeling. An array of mix emotions pulses through you. For me, it was a true feeling of ecstasy, a feeling I have never felt until the moment I held my daughter for the first time, a feeling I would never feel again until I delivered my other two children. From reading Chapter 2 in the textbook “Invitation to the Life Span” and watching the documentary “The Ultimate…

Mothers that drink while pregnant will send the alcohol to the placenta that will create defects to the baby. Many will have premature births before 37 weeks. Many babies will have (FASDs) when they are delivered. Fetal alcohol spectrum disorder is caused when the mother drinks all the time during pregnancy. “1 in 20…

Abortion is the removal of a fetus from a woman’s body, surgically or medically. Abortion is something that’s been around for many years and has been performed in many different ways. Some people are against abortion, others say there’s nothing wrong with it. There’s many reasons why women choose to get abortions. While making this decision, there is sometimes after effects that can come along with it. Abortion is a big topic that is commonly discussed. Abortions started occurring thousands of…

(outer layer) (Biology.OpenStax.1754). The inner cell mass will continue to develop the embryo, and the trophoblast will eventually become part of the placenta, providing nutrients, waste removal, and oxygen to the embryo. However, the blastocyst first attaches to the uterus, called implantation, before the trophoblast becomes part of the placenta.…

rates and ultimately generate population estimates. However, progesterone levels are difficult to track and predict in the early stages of pregnancy. Researchers believe the increased progesterone from pregnancy comes from the corpus luteum, the placenta, or both. The purpose of this study is to detect pregnant and nonpregant females by creating a standard classifying system of detecting progesterone in early gestation periods and to estimate reproductive failures in the preceding breeding…

and mature B-lymphocytes [55]. The antibody was originally developed for the treatment of B-cell lymphoma [56]. Recently, it has been administered for treating different autoimmune disease. As rituximab is an IgG1 subclass antibody, it crosses the placenta, interfering with fetal and neonatal B cell development and could lead to immune deficiency and raise susceptibility to infections in the neonate [57]. However, few data are available on the use of rituximab during pregnancy [57,58]. During…

delivered and breathing, they cut the umbilical cord. “The umbilical cord carries oxygen and nutrients from the placenta into your baby’s bloodstream”(2). The third stage of childbirth is the placental stage. It can last anywhere from a few minutes to a few hours. “It ends when you deliver the placenta and the empty bag of waters attached to the placenta (membranes)”(3). The placenta will detach from the uterus and drop to the bottom of the uterus and out through the vagina. There are…

It all begins with a pregnancy test. Once you take a pregnancy test and it turns out positive, you officially enter your first trimester. The wellbeing and health of both your baby and you are of utmost importance during pregnancy. In each trimester your doctor will prescribe a set of tests and scans to rule out possible risk factors and to ensure that your baby is growing normal. Here are some of the common tests and scans for the first trimester: 1. Your first prenatal visit As soon as your…

Ana is a pregnant 17 year-old farm labor worker. Her placenta erupted at 30 weeks during her pregnancy and an emergency C-section was performed. Her baby is a high risk in the NICU with low APGAR scores, neonatal encephalopathy, seizures and poor prognosis. His survival rate is low with chances of neurological damage. Doctors want to continue treatment while Ana wants to take home the baby for palliative care. There are many studies that prove premature babies do have a chance of survival, but…