The nutrients of the food you consume cross the placenta, and your baby can taste by 20 weeks. Your baby is essentially swallowing flavored amniotic fluid (it's like a vanilla steamer, only it's all the flavors and gross) and starts to develop a preference that shows up later in life.

Do babies cuddle the placenta?

The Placenta snuggle

Placentas are vital when it comes to the health and well-being of your baby (obviously) but, the thing with babies is they really love snuggling up to them. They are quite big, warm, soft and part of mummy and what better place is there than nuzzling up to your mum if you are a wee baby.

Do babies eat through the placenta?

Food reaches your developing baby through the umbilical cord after being filtered through the placenta.