- When you were born, this is what the world might have looked like, and it would have looked this way for 3 months.
- You probably took your first breath ever!
- This is because the placenta was supplying oxygen, not your lungs.
- The lungs, which have been filled with fluid, now start filling up with air.
- You probably cried for the first time.
- Studies argue that crying after being born helps to expand your lungs.
- You experienced a change body temperature.
- Because you had to regulate your own temperature for the first time ever!
- The umbilical cord may have been cut.
- You then live without the placenta for the first time ever!
- You probably looked like an alien when you were born.
- You were probably blueish or slightly bruised.
- You may have been covered in a thin greasy layer called vernix.
- You were also covered in amniotic fluid.
- You were probably placed on your birth mother's abdomen to bond.
- If you were born in a hospital, you were probably administered the apgar test.
- The apgar tests heart rate, breathing, muscle tone, reflexes, and skin tone.
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