{"id":1709,"date":"2017-08-07T13:41:49","date_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:41:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2017-08-07T13:41:49","modified_gmt":"2017-08-07T20:41:49","slug":"placenta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/2017\/08\/07\/placenta\/","title":{"rendered":"Placenta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>placenta<\/strong> is connected to the <strong>umbilical cord<\/strong> and attaches to the wall of the uterus. \u00a0This organ allows for nutrient exchange and the removal of wastes. \u00a0The placenta develops when the <strong>blastocyst<\/strong> (embryo) implants into the uterine wall. \u00a0Usually this attachment occurs at the superior end of the uterus. \u00a0If the placenta grows in the lower part of the uterus, it can obstruct the cervix and birth canal, a condition known as <strong>placenta previa<\/strong>.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/uterus-birth-placenta.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1710\" src=\"http:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/uterus-birth-placenta.png\" alt=\"placenta\" width=\"900\" height=\"208\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/uterus-birth-placenta.png 900w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/uterus-birth-placenta-250x58.png 250w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/uterus-birth-placenta-500x116.png 500w, https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-content\/images\/uterus-birth-placenta-768x177.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After the baby is born, the placenta is expelled from the uterus, this is considered &#8220;third stage labor.&#8221; \u00a0 The placenta is sometimes called the &#8220;afterbirth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Fun fact: \u00a0Identical twins share a single placenta. \u00a0Fraternal twins have their own individual placenta.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The placenta is connected to the umbilical cord and attaches to the wall of the uterus. \u00a0This organ allows for nutrient exchange and the removal of wastes. \u00a0The placenta develops when the blastocyst (embryo) implants into the uterine wall. \u00a0Usually this attachment occurs at the superior end of the uterus. \u00a0If the placenta grows in the lower part of the uterus, it can obstruct the cervix and birth canal, a condition known as placenta previa.\u00a0 After the baby is born, the placenta is expelled from the uterus, this is considered &#8220;third stage labor.&#8221; \u00a0 The placenta is sometimes called the <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1710,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[414,413,412,416,415,370],"class_list":["post-1709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-anatomical","tag-afterbirth","tag-birth","tag-placenta","tag-previa","tag-umbilical","tag-uterus","has_thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1709"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1711,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1709\/revisions\/1711"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anatomycorner.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}