Amniotic sacs not so helpful

An amniotic sac is a two layered sac that holds a baby inside of it. This sac includes fluid called amniotic fluid that surrounds the baby and protects it. Researchers from Stanford University School of Medicine have found that the amniotic fluid inside some of the sacs carry many bacteria that can cause the mother to have a premature baby. A premature baby is considered to be a baby born under 37 weeks and 12% of all pregnancies in the United States are considered premature. The scientists found fungi and bacteria in 25 of the 166 women in the study. This is 15% of the group of women and 50% higher than in the past studies that were done.

Amniotic sacs are what all of us have been in. They protect us from all the dangerous things inside our mother's stomach. If there was no amniotic sac formed during the birthing process a baby would not live. Having an infection inside the sac means the baby gets sick and wants to come out before it dies. This means you have a premature birth because the baby pushes out of the sac and when the baby comes out of the sac it has to come out of the mother.

"We only know the names of relatively a few of all the bacteria that exist, and a lot of them are difficult to culture or can't be cultured with our current technology," physician Robert Goldenberg tells us. Doctors think that in a woman's body the trigger for these bacteria are infection-causing microorganisms that live in the amniotic fluid. Even though all this information sounds like the bacteria and infections are linked to premature birth Dr. Daniel DiGiulio says that the studies have not yet confirmed that premature birth is linked to the infections and bacteria in the amniotic fluid.

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by Mel