The uterine environment plays a crucial role for the developing fetus by several mechanisms, some of which are outlined in this article. Nurses attending deliveries and caring for the infant must ...

and growing them for eleven days inside the mechanical womb. The next step is figuring out how to provide an artificial blood supply, or a more advanced system of nutrients that will let the ...

Researchers at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) have created an artificial womb. Inside of the womb, they placed a premature lamb fetus. They then kept the fetus in the womb for four ...

Doctors in the US have treated a fetus with a rapidly progressive congenital disease from inside the womb for the very first ...

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There are a variety of maternal disease states that affect the fetus. This paper is limited to a brief overview of some of the more common maternal disease states that newborn and infant nurses ...