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what is placenta. write its mai functions

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Answered by nainasharma2002
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1. The placenta mainly functions to supply adequate nutrition to your baby. Before the blood from you reaches your baby, it travels through the placenta to reach the umbilical cord that connects you with your baby.
2. Yet another important function that the placenta performs is that it acts like the kidney; it filters the blood to eliminate the harmful substances that might be hazardous to the health of your baby.
3. The placenta also serves as baby’s lung and allows the transmission of oxygen to your baby.
4. The placenta brings backs the bio wastes of your baby to the system of circulation of you, which is later discarded from your body through the urine.

5. It saves your baby from probable infections by separating the blood of you from your baby, thus acting like a filter.
6. Many hormones are produced from the placenta in your body with the maximum count of placental lactose that ensures you have enough level of glucose in your blood which enables it to circulate it to your baby.
7. The placenta also breaks down the food particles consumed by you to enable the nutrition to reach your baby faster.
8. It traps the oxygen inhaled by you to diffuse into the blood to help it reach the circulation system of your baby, by passing it through the umbilical cord. This is one among the prominent and important functions that the placenta performs as it prevents the chances that can make your baby from inhaling the amniotic fluids, which can be disastrous.
9. The placenta secretes a vast count of female hormones like progesterone and estrogen to stop probable contractions of the uterus before your baby has reached the full term. It also paves way to prepare the maternal tissues and the uterus for baby’s delivery.
10. During the stages of pregnancy, placenta moves while the womb of you expands and grows. It is the common function of the placenta to stay low in the early stages of pregnancy, but it moves to the top of the womb at later stages of pregnancy to keep the cervix open for delive

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