Labels:door | house | tree | tribute album | windowpane OCR: HELP From Conception to Birth Page The embryo slowly grows in the womb for about 38-40 weeks is warm and well protected in a bag of watery liguid The embryo gets food and oxygen from its mother through tube called an umbilical cord This connected-to the placenta Food and oxyg en cross from the mother' blood to the baby blood through the placenta and the umbilical cord liquid througl lacenta