Entries by Emma Wu & Tahmid Mottalib November 2025 I had never pondered about how babies can get enough oxygen in the womb while the mother also needs oxygen to live. Babies get more oxygen in the womb because fetal hemoglobin binds oxygen more strongly than the mother’s adult hemoglobin. The gamma globin in fetal hemoglobin replaces the beta globin found in adult hemoglobin, this change allows the baby’s blood to pull oxygen from the mother’s blood across the placenta due to the higher...

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