Question

Answer the following questions about Fetal circulation of the baby before birth.

1. How are gases exchanged?

2. How are wastes removed?

3. How does blood flow through the heart and lungs?

4. What main structures are involved?

(REMEMBER: NOT AFTER BIRTH!! IT'S BEFORE BIRTH).

Answer 1

Blood flow in the unborn baby follows this pathway: Oxygen and nutrients from the mother's blood are transferred across the placenta to the fetus through the umbilical cord. This enriched blood flows through the umbilical vein toward the baby's liver. There it moves through a shunt called the ductus venosus.

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