Do Fetuses Poop?
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The little scar in the middle of your abdomen marks the place where, for about nine gloriousmonths, all the nutrients you needed to grow and develop and survive flowed straight intoyour bloodstream while you just floated around in a sac of amniotic fluid. But have you everwondered what was going on with your other bodily functions while you were in that enclosedspace? To put it a little more bluntly, did you, you know, pee and poop in there?The answer to question #1 is yes, definitely: embryos start peeing after just two monthsof development, around the time they first begin swallowing--and, therefore, drinking--amnioticfluid.This does essentially mean that fetuses spend seven months drinking their own pee, but that'sactually not as gross as it sounds. For one thing, ...
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The little scar in the middle of your abdomen marks the place where, for about nine gloriousmonths, all the nutrients you needed to grow and develop and survive flowed straight intoyour bloodstream while you just floated around in a sac of amniotic fluid. But have you everwondered what was going on with your other bodily functions while you were in that enclosedspace? To put it a little more bluntly, did you, you know, pee and poop in there?The answer to question #1 is yes, definitely: embryos start peeing after just two monthsof development, around the time they first begin swallowing--and, therefore, drinking--amnioticfluid.This does essentially mean that fetuses spend seven months drinking their own pee, but that'sactually not as gross as it sounds. For one thing, ...
