A friend and I were discussing the exact point that a baby starts breathing air rather than embryonic fluid after leaving the womb. The discussion progressed to whether or not a synthesized “embryonic fluid” had been made for deep sea diving or whatever application for which it would be necessary. If this fluid has in fact been made, is it still necessary for the body to “breath”, for the diaphragm to expand and contract?
It has been made, and you still have to breath in order to move the oxygenated liquid through the lungs. I suppose you could make some sort of system that oxygenated blood directly rather than using the lungs, but lungs are pretty good at what they do.
The liquid isn’t related to amniotic fluid. A fetus doesn’t get oxygen by breathing- it gets it through the placenta directly into it’s bloodstream. The amnionic fluid is actually largely fetal urine.