Is it true that when we are a baby in our mothers womb, that we are actually breathing in water?

a baby doesnt take its 1st breath until after delievered.

You’re not breathing in anything. Your lungs don’t begin working until birth. Everything the baby needs it gets from its mother via the umbilical cord, including oxygen.

It’s not quite water, it amniotic fluid. Amniotic fluid contains several different proteins, urea, lipids, carbohydrates and phospholipids. The fetus continually inhales this fluid and that is what makes the fetus’s lungs actually develop normally. During the late stage of pregnancy the fluid is actually made up mostly of fetal urine. Pretty complicated but wonderful stuff.

Removed by me due to redundancy because of the above post.

Nerds and brain child^ have given you the answer. Breathing in water is impossible for humans…fetus or adult. Now if the fetus could breath through its skin like an amphibian….the story might turn out differently.

Let me guess…
You’ve watched The Abyss recently?
Where they claim that they can breathe oxygen-rich liquid because that’s what a fetus does in the womb?

That’s a stretch, Mr. James Cameron.

@squidcake
never saw that one