No, i don’t need an answer fast. But we were discussing this over the dinner table, and i wondered if anyone knows the factual answer.
My off-the-cuff guess was that farting requires gut bacteria digesting food, and fetuses do not get exposed to those bacteria until after birth. But I did google before posting, and not too surprisingly this is a question that comes up occasionally.
Calling Qadgop, Jackmanii, and other doctors!
IANAPhysician, but my guess is probably not, unless something is terribly wrong.
This sounds (?) like a DSeid question.
The explanation that makes sense to me is no fetal farting, because fetuses don’t swallow air or digest food in utero.
Don’t try lighting them either.
Have you ever seen a baby’s first bowel movement? It’s a thick, tarry substance called meconium. I think of it as the Cosmoline the human digestive system comes packed in.
It’s hard for me to imagine any sort of flatus fighting its way through that thick, unforgiving material, especially with only a baby’s intestinal muscles pushing it through.
I would say no. Not much air in the womb, especially prior to parturition. Fetuses do swallow a lot of amniotic fluid but excrete it using their kidneys, so that hardly counts. Philosophically, if no one hears it, can it be said to exist? Is it dealt if no one can smell it? Is it supplied if never denied?
I think the question has been answered, so I’d like to point out that this is inappropriate dinner table conversation. And that’s a fact.
Lol. My father was a gastroenterologist who talked about his patients at the dinner table. This ain’t nothing.
Heh. My gf frequently stops me from bringing up unpleasant topics over dinner.
When my nieces were born, they were sent home with a basic instruction sheet (yes, such things DO exist) and it included a description of what their BMs should look like in the first few days at home. So, my parents got to hear, at least after the first one, “Her poop was green, and now it’s yellow” but I did point out that if it didn’t look a certain way, the baby could have something wrong with it.
Damn! We never got such a sheet.
We’re till tying to figure out how our daughter works, a quarter of a century later. And now the warranty has expired.
I consider this one of the truly great questions of our time! 
All I can say is you can’t tell me they can’t get hiccoughs.