Dr Karl

Thanks a lot, Beans.

Sweet, thank you.

Yay.

Welcome, Dr Jacinta, and congratulations.

Is this baby number one?

This is baby number two.

Okay.

Wow.

And how many weeks are you in on your second pregnancy?

Ah, so you've been feeling the baby from probably 16 or 20 weeks?

Yeah, correct.

But this is the first time you've felt the hiccuping?

Okay, it's for muscle building.

So right now the baby is floating around inside my favourite organ, the uterus, drinking amniotic fluid, which is basically its own wee.

And so its lungs are full of this liquid.

And when it gets born, when baby gets born, they're going to have to start breathing air, right?

And breathing air is a whole lot different from the slow rhythmic movements that it does with bringing the liquids in and out of its lungs.

And it's got to be able to breathe air perfectly from when it gets born and then it has to keep on doing it for the rest of its life.

Very, very, very rarely a baby can't do this.

And a whole lot of bad things happen, but we work around it.