Birth Defects Injury

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Diabetic women who get pregnant are three to four times more likely to have a child with birth defects than other women

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Inside a pregnant woman's uterus is an amniotic sac, which contains amniotic fluid and the growing fetus. The amniotic fluid is important for several reasons:

During sexual intercourse, sperm are released into the vagina near the cervix, which is the entrance to the uterus...more...

Click and drag a slider bar underneath an image window to see the process of embryonic and fetal development.

The placenta provides the baby with nutrients and oxygen from the mother and carries away fetal waste...more...

The growing embryo requires nutrition and oxygen, and a disposal system for the waste products of its own metabolism. All of this is accomplished by the placenta, which allows the growing embryo to eat...more

Hypertension caused by pre-eclampsia can adversely affect the fetus by causing constriction of the placental arteries. Arterial constriction may result in severe reduction..more...

A woman is born with all of the egg cells she will release throughout her lifetime. Starting at about age 12 through menopause, a woman's reproductive cycle releases an egg about once a month...more...