Breath
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The Baby's Breathing Centre in the Nervous System
When that cold hits the skin, sends little signals to the baby's breathing centre in the nervous system. And this breathing centre is just like waking up. It's like someone's rapping loudly on its bedroom door, like, wake up. Its groggyn eor oy. As that's happening, a the umbilical cord that has been supplying this baby its oxygen, its nutrients, its everything, is getting super tight. This thing already is beginning to close. So there's no blood coming in through that umbilical vein. That means there's no oxygen getting to the baby,. But it also means that that co two in the body is ginning to build the baby
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