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-Are you ready for our Ouch Snips? -Snip! -Ouch! -Exactly! | 0:00:02 | 0:00:04 | |
When you were in your mum's womb... | 0:00:08 | 0:00:10 | |
Keep watching to find out! | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
Right, here you go, Chris. | 0:00:23 | 0:00:25 | |
-You can get a nice close look at my belly button with that. -Whoa! | 0:00:25 | 0:00:28 | |
I think I've missed something. | 0:00:28 | 0:00:29 | |
Why on earth would I, or anyone, want to look at your belly button? | 0:00:29 | 0:00:32 | |
Because did you know that your belly button used to be | 0:00:32 | 0:00:35 | |
your mouth and your bum? | 0:00:35 | 0:00:37 | |
OK, yes, that's true, but we still don't need to look at your | 0:00:37 | 0:00:41 | |
belly button, Xand, because I've got something much more impressive. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:44 | |
Take a look at this. | 0:00:44 | 0:00:46 | |
Whoa! | 0:00:47 | 0:00:48 | |
That is much more impressive than my belly button | 0:00:48 | 0:00:51 | |
because this is a real human placenta and umbilical cord. | 0:00:51 | 0:00:57 | |
These amazing organs are what keep a baby alive | 0:00:57 | 0:01:00 | |
and able to grow inside its mum. | 0:01:00 | 0:01:02 | |
The placenta's job is to absorb oxygen and vital nutrients from | 0:01:02 | 0:01:06 | |
the mum's blood and deliver them to the baby via the umbilical cord. | 0:01:06 | 0:01:10 | |
As well as this, the umbilical cord also carries waste products - | 0:01:10 | 0:01:14 | |
that's wee, poo and carbon dioxide - away from the baby, | 0:01:14 | 0:01:17 | |
down the umbilical cord | 0:01:17 | 0:01:19 | |
and through the placenta into Mum's body for her to get rid of. | 0:01:19 | 0:01:22 | |
Now, once you're born, you don't need these any more, which is | 0:01:22 | 0:01:25 | |
why we have these to show you. | 0:01:25 | 0:01:28 | |
This placenta is absolutely amazing. | 0:01:28 | 0:01:31 | |
But, you know, I've always said that there's really only one thing | 0:01:31 | 0:01:34 | |
better than a real human placenta - | 0:01:34 | 0:01:36 | |
-and that is a double human placenta from twins. -Wow! | 0:01:36 | 0:01:40 | |
This must have been what our placenta looked like | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
-when we were inside our mum. -Absolutely. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:46 | |
After you're born, the cord gets snipped off, leaving you | 0:01:46 | 0:01:49 | |
with your belly button but, until then, this cord is your lifeline. | 0:01:49 | 0:01:54 | |
But what does a baby look like when it's actually inside its mum? | 0:01:54 | 0:01:58 | |
-We're going to show you. -Now, what we've got here is a real live baby. | 0:01:58 | 0:02:03 | |
Xand, this isn't a baby. This is Amelia, and she's a grown-up. | 0:02:03 | 0:02:06 | |
That's true. Thanks very much for coming into the lab, Amelia. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
-Thanks, Amelia. -But, actually, inside Amelia is a real live baby. | 0:02:09 | 0:02:13 | |
Ah! | 0:02:13 | 0:02:14 | |
And ordinarily, of course, we couldn't show you that baby, | 0:02:14 | 0:02:16 | |
but we have this ultrasound scanner. | 0:02:16 | 0:02:19 | |
-So, Amelia, are you having a boy or a girl? -A boy. -A boy! | 0:02:19 | 0:02:22 | |
-Amelia, how many weeks' pregnant are you? -29 weeks. | 0:02:22 | 0:02:26 | |
At this stage, a baby's organs are developed. | 0:02:26 | 0:02:28 | |
Just here, what you can see beating is Amelia's baby's heart. | 0:02:28 | 0:02:32 | |
Wow, amazing! | 0:02:32 | 0:02:34 | |
The white things here are his bones, so that's his backbone. | 0:02:34 | 0:02:37 | |
Very clearly, you can see that there. | 0:02:37 | 0:02:39 | |
Surrounding the baby, these big black patches are liquid. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:43 | |
And that's cos the baby's sitting in a thing called the amniotic sac, | 0:02:43 | 0:02:46 | |
so it's sitting in a big sac full of fluid that protects | 0:02:46 | 0:02:50 | |
it from bumps and from infection. | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
The one massive difference between being inside Amelia | 0:02:52 | 0:02:56 | |
and being out in the world is that this little boy is breathing | 0:02:56 | 0:02:59 | |
entirely through his umbilical cord, through his belly button. | 0:02:59 | 0:03:03 | |
But what we really want to know is, what does he look like? | 0:03:03 | 0:03:07 | |
So we've been able to do a 4-D scan. | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
4-D scans provide an incredible lifelike | 0:03:10 | 0:03:13 | |
image of the baby inside the womb. | 0:03:13 | 0:03:16 | |
You can see his eyes, his nose and his little mouth. | 0:03:16 | 0:03:18 | |
And there's another really nice thing here. | 0:03:18 | 0:03:20 | |
He has found another use for his placenta because, as well as giving | 0:03:20 | 0:03:24 | |
him all his oxygen and nutrients, he's also using it as a pillow. | 0:03:24 | 0:03:29 | |
Amelia, thank you so much for letting us meet him. | 0:03:29 | 0:03:31 | |
-Thanks very much. -No problem. | 0:03:31 | 0:03:34 | |
We've shown you the incredible organs that keep you alive | 0:03:34 | 0:03:37 | |
and enable you to grow before you're born inside your mum. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:41 | |
The placenta and the umbilical cord bring nutrients and oxygen | 0:03:41 | 0:03:45 | |
and take away waste - everything a baby needs. | 0:03:45 | 0:03:48 | |
But why are some belly buttons innies and some outies? | 0:03:48 | 0:03:52 | |
Let's head to the Ouch And About Clinic. | 0:03:52 | 0:03:54 | |
So, Anastasia, what's brought you to the Ouch Mobile today? | 0:03:54 | 0:03:57 | |
All my friends in my school have an innie belly button, | 0:03:57 | 0:04:00 | |
-but I have an outie. -What's the diagnosis, Doc? | 0:04:00 | 0:04:04 | |
Sounds to me like a case of... | 0:04:04 | 0:04:05 | |
Spot-on! | 0:04:09 | 0:04:11 | |
That is a very impressive outie belly button and, | 0:04:11 | 0:04:13 | |
after you're born, | 0:04:13 | 0:04:14 | |
you don't need your umbilical cord, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
so we clamp it off, | 0:04:16 | 0:04:17 | |
and the cord just dies and falls off. | 0:04:17 | 0:04:19 | |
And, usually, when things die and drop off, | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
you get a bit of a scar formation. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:23 | |
That scar tightens up and pulls the belly button in but, | 0:04:23 | 0:04:26 | |
in lots of people, that doesn't happen. | 0:04:26 | 0:04:28 | |
But it's not a problem - it's completely normal. | 0:04:28 | 0:04:30 | |
-In fact, it's quite special. -I'm special! | 0:04:30 | 0:04:34 | |
So the next time you're looking at your belly button, remember - | 0:04:34 | 0:04:36 | |
it used to be your mouth and your bum! | 0:04:36 | 0:04:39 | |
And, personally, I think it makes a rather good nose. | 0:04:39 | 0:04:42 | |
-See you next time! -Bye! -Bye! | 0:04:44 | 0:04:47 | |
-Bye. -Bye. -Bye! | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
-Bye. -Bye! | 0:04:49 | 0:04:51 | |
THEY MOUTH | 0:04:51 | 0:04:53 |