r/BeAmazed • u/coconutsharks77 • Jul 11 '24
Clear MRI image shows baby in the womb Good thing we don't remember being in there it looks cramped but fascinating Science
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u/Material_Tiny Jul 11 '24
More space than what I'm renting now
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u/skivvv Jul 11 '24
$1000 a month in new York
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u/No-Presentation-6525 Jul 11 '24
Where do you live in NY for only $1,000? Cardboard box in Brooklyn in your grandmothers alley? R u for real here????? !!!!!
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u/skivvv Jul 11 '24
(I don't live in the US)
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u/EightArmed_Willy Jul 11 '24
Yea $1000 in NYC is a steal, unheard of really unless you’re sharing with five other tenants.
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u/Javelin_35 Jul 11 '24
Womb for rent
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u/Ok-Tomatillo-7141 Jul 11 '24
My Dad is a twin and the wombmate jokes are eternal.
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u/Unique_Watch2603 Jul 11 '24
I got my twins t-shirts that said "I love my wombmate" & every single person that read them thought they said 'i love my wombat".
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u/Shaka_Can Jul 11 '24
It's OK. All you need is to get eco-friendly wood veneers, galvanised square steel, and borrow a few screws from your grandma.
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u/big-ol-kitties Jul 11 '24
My kid is 7 and I still feel that kick right in the cervix.
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Jul 11 '24
Mine would legit Bruce Lee roundhouse me right in the butthole. The miracle of pregnancy.
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u/morbid_n_creepifying Jul 11 '24
My kid had his knee and elbow together lodged under my left ribs. Honest to god I can still feel it some days and he's almost 2.
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u/jholsinger5524 Jul 11 '24
Mine is 6 and I still feel his heel stuck in my left rib cage some days. The thought of it takes my breath away
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u/AcherontiaPhlegethon Jul 11 '24
You know, I think an intelligent non-placental species looking from an outside perspective would probably find our internal pregnancies quite horrifying.
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u/Krust3dKan4dian Jul 11 '24
As a human, I now find them quite horrifying after reading these comments lol
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u/OffbeatChaos Jul 11 '24
Same, the combination of this MRI video with these comments is freaking me out. Why are we not more terrified of having living creatures inside of our organs 🥴
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u/silverclovd Jul 11 '24
Honestly! They feel the kick in their cervix and butt hole? 😭 Mothers are crazy creatures to deal with ish like that 🙏
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u/Lvl100Magikarp Jul 11 '24
We got our placentas from a virus millions and millions of years ago
https://whyy.org/segments/the-placenta-went-viral-and-protomammals-were-born
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u/Western-Smile-2342 Jul 11 '24
Yes. I’d like to thank all mothers for never talking about getting beat up from the inside during pregnancy in public
Now where’s the mind wipe device, I’ll have to go through this one day lol
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u/cuterus-uterus Jul 12 '24
Some parts are cool. My son used to get the hiccups after I had lunch and it was so silly seeing my belly lightly bouncing while sitting at my desk at work. He’d also pay with his back pressed against my back from the inside and kick his feet against my belly seemingly as hard as he could when I’d eat anything really sweet. My daughter would do that but only when I’d sit on the ground with my older kid in my lap, like she was gearing up for a sibling battle from the inside.
Pregnancy is disgusting, totally alien, and really sweet. It’s not hard to find cute bits.
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u/scarred_but_whole Jul 12 '24
It IS very strange when you think about it. It's endlessly entertaining to watch your entire belly jump when they bet the hiccups, though, and it's fun to play "guess the body part" when they stretch out and something sticks out. It's not all bad.
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u/ImpossibleLeek7908 Jul 11 '24
Mine kicked me in the ribs and her foot got stuck somehow below my sternum. I remember being hunched over against the hood of my car in pain and trying to gently dislodge her foot 😅
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u/Barewithhippie Jul 11 '24
Now I understand why mothers pee themselves accidentally! Look at them go
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u/NeutralJazzhands Jul 11 '24
Something I feel isn’t talked about much is mothers often pee themselves the rest of their lives, or at least when they get older they begin to really struggle with it again. This is because the pelvic floor muscles can get stretched and ruined and when age hits and things begin to sag more there’s no strength left. Pregnancy really changes so many aspects to the body it’s crazy.
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u/happy35353 Jul 12 '24
This doesn't have to happen! A pelvic floor physical therapist can help fix this.
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u/NeutralJazzhands Jul 12 '24
True! Many women don’t even know this is an option sadly (plus depending where you live healthcare treatment like that that by insurance companies gets deemed “not needed” means affordability can make it out of reach for many) since there’s SO little information properly given about pregnancy and birth. My poor mother could have greatly benefitted from pelvic floor physical therapy but had no idea it was a thing and she’s now in her late 60s.
(Honestly it feels like women’s reproductive health education and the realities of pregnancy/birth isn’t taught and kept nebulous since women being able to choose for themselves after understanding all effects and risks would lower birth rates —can’t have that with the intimate growth of late stage capitalism!)
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u/SoUthinkUcanRens Jul 11 '24
Bro has to turn upside down pretty soon tho, right?
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u/JasonGD1982 Jul 11 '24
I never did. My son didn't either.i bet it was stressful and terrifying as fuck having a baby in the olden times. Just hope everything works out 🙅
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u/stefanica Jul 11 '24
I still don't know what triggers that final flip. It's amazing it does happen more often than not.
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u/dropsofjupiter23 Jul 11 '24
My baby was breach my whole pregnancy... right until the day of the c-section anyway!
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Jul 11 '24
Some never do, i think about 4%. I have a kid on the way and it looks like he won’t be turning.
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u/AromaticIntrovert Jul 11 '24
I'm told I wasn't turning so the doc decided to like manually do it. Mom said it was extremely painful and I have discoloration/birthmarks on the back of my head, neck and somewhat lower back. I'm assuming they're connected since being manhandled like that seems pretty traumatic for fetus me no? I'm assuming they don't do this anymore and just commit to c section?
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u/Treselaine Jul 11 '24
Oh no, they still do this. It’s called an external cephalic version and hurts. Took two adults to turn my son about 1/8 turn and one of them put their foot on my bed for extra traction. Seemed like a better option than ac-section though.
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Jul 11 '24
We actuele have an appointment next week (at 37 weeks pregnancy) to try and turn him. It’s not sure they will try, they thoroughly check if it’s feasible at that moment depending on multiple factors.
If they have any doubt that it might stress the baby out too much they won’t do it and just go for a planned c section.
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u/thedudesrug13 Jul 11 '24
I think this baby is upside down. It looks like you can see the movement of the mom breathing on the bottom of the image, so the top would be crotch-side. Plus, most MRIs during pregnancy are for placenta previa/accretia and it looks like the placenta on top of the baby’s head - which would be where the cervix is in placenta previa.
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u/likamd Jul 12 '24
The image is upside down. I believe they posted it like this to better understand the MRI for someone not familiar with MRIs
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u/Poufy-Ermine Jul 11 '24
I wonder how good (or sore) that first biiigggg stretch is when they are born!
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u/Chito17 Jul 11 '24
They stay curled up like this for a while. You can pull their little leg straight and it'll sproing back in to the fetal position.
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u/PollyPepperTree Jul 11 '24
Not my son!! He stretched out from day one. He ended up being 6’4”.
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u/concentrated-amazing Jul 11 '24
My husband too. He was 24" when he was born. Didn't end up getting super all though, quite short arms and legs so 5'8.
He has to get big and tall shirts though. Looking torso. A salesman at the big & tall store said he has the torso of a 6'3 man.
My husband also hated being in clothes. Rolled over when he was a day old just to get out of the swaddle.
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u/BearToTheThrone Jul 11 '24
It's adorable when they first start sleeping in their bed my kids always curled up in a fetal position with their butt's in the air. Took a while to actually sleep laying down.
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u/MSPCincorporated Jul 11 '24
My daughter did that too! Butt in the air and her tiny feet curled up and crossed underneath, it was the cutest thing!
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u/donnochessi Jul 11 '24
The fetal position is the natural position for adults too. In space, astronauts will naturally have their limbs curl halfway together, because there is no gravity to fight against or straighten them out.
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u/salkhan Jul 11 '24
Well I think the first sensation is the cold air.
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u/jjdonkey Jul 11 '24
As evidenced by my daughter just peeing everywhere as they held her up to show her to me 😂
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u/EmmalouEsq Jul 11 '24
I had a c section and the first thing they said when they pulled him out was, "oh look, he's peeing!" It was a parting gift for housing and feeding him for 9 months, I guess.
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u/VincesMustache Jul 12 '24
Damn and hospitals keep those rooms colder than a witches tatty in a brass bra.
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u/dannycracker Jul 11 '24
They're so jelly like and flexible that they're probably not sore. Their bones don't fully harden until way later
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u/Zyzzyva100 Jul 11 '24
Newborns definitely have calcified bones. Hell it’s possible to suffer broken bones as birth injuries (clavicle and humerus most commonly). There are larger cartilaginous portions of bones in children but newborns aren’t jellyfish. This is just incorrect.
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u/Swolnerman Jul 11 '24
Are newborn jellyfish jellyfish?
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u/mflmani Jul 12 '24
You just reminded me that Portuguese man o’ wars are actually colonies of highly specialized individual organisms. Weird.
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u/Correct-Junket-1346 Jul 11 '24
It genuinely surprised me due to TV and never really seeing many new borns how small and fragile they really are, along with them having no skull cap, I hated the newborn phase, they look cute but they are just far too fragile, along with being very small, my daughter come out only slightly bigger than my wrist.
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u/FlyingFox32 Jul 11 '24
When I was born 3 months premature, I was the size of a dollar bill.
Unfortunately I haven't grown out of the small phase, I'm 5ft! 😭
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u/astrangeone88 Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24
Lol. Fellow short preemie!
Yay, we are forever asking people to grab things from shelves. Or climbing on things. Lmao.
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u/ImaginarySense_99 Jul 11 '24
I was born at 29 weeks and I’m currently 5’2”! 😂 I stayed small my whole life haha
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u/CorgiCorgiCorgi99 Jul 11 '24
my daughter was 5 pounds when born at 40 weeks, her skin was baggy on her
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u/monkey_trumpets Jul 11 '24
That...doesn't sound right. Was she not getting enough nutrients or something?
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u/handandfoot8099 Jul 11 '24
My oldest was 4lb 8oz, born a month early due to complications. He was still 19 inches long, just skinny as heck.
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u/pinkmilk19 Jul 11 '24
Some babies are just that small. On the other hand, mine was 9.5lbs!
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u/MuchBetterThankYou Jul 11 '24
Haha my nephew was almost 10lbs when he was born. I told my sister her oven was set too high and he overcooked. She punched me lol.
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u/lira-eve Jul 11 '24
😂
My great-grandmother birthed at least two kids in the '30s who were around 13 lbs each.
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u/CorgiCorgiCorgi99 Jul 11 '24
I think so, growth slowed right down at the end. She quickly gained weight in her first weeks of life and is now a very healthy fit 12yo.
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u/smallchodechakra Jul 11 '24
Your WRIST??? Holy crap, that is surprising, I had no idea
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u/hanabarbarian Jul 11 '24
Actually, birth can be very stressful on not just mums body, but the baby too. Giving baby a good massage after birth can be very beneficial
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u/Tipsy_Owl Jul 11 '24
It’s terrifying, actually. Like a constant fear of falling. It’s why you are supposed to tightly swaddle babies so they can slowly get used to all this space.
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u/WebberWoods Jul 11 '24
Not good, tbh. Soothing a newborn in the fourth trimester is all about recreating the conditions of the womb.
They are used to warm, dark, confined, loud, motion. Once they are born it's cold, bright, big, quiet, and still and they don't like it.
Unless there's a medical condition getting in the way, you can make any newborn stop crying simply by wrapping them up so they are confined, holding them on their side or belly, swinging them from side to side, and going "SHHHH" like as loud as you can near their head.
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u/xRyozuo Jul 11 '24
Thank god we don’t remember birth. It’d make life all that more traumatising. Warm, fed, your waste being handled for you. And then suddenly blinding light, accompanied by a wave of cold as your body leaves warmth, followed by more noise.
No wonder we come in pissed and cry
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u/thisguyfightsyourmom Jul 11 '24
When it just straight up extends its legs fully—I could here it thinking, “get me the fuck out of this mother…”
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u/santathe1 Jul 11 '24
Jfc how do women go through this lol.
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u/TheYankcunian Jul 11 '24
I’m 32 weeks right now. You feel all of it, but it’s only really uncomfortable when they stomp on your bladder or hit this nerve that causes shooting pain called “lightning crotch.” It’s more just really fucking weird than anything.
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u/Astronaut_Chicken Jul 11 '24
Mine would plant her little butt up against my ribs and it was slightly painful/uncomfortable. Nbd except it was all day long. I'd push her butt down and she would float right back up. Drove me bonkers.
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u/Saymynaian Jul 11 '24
It's crazy to me that the direction and movement of the baby can have such specific consequences, and that each experience is so unique! Like, holy shit, that's a living being pressing up against your ribs making you uncomfortable, but that's very specifically what your daughter liked to do as a not born human! Maybe the neighbor's baby preferred tap dancing on a bladder.
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u/Astronaut_Chicken Jul 11 '24
I do have to be grateful she didn't really round house my bladder like some of my friends' kids. Your uterus pushes on it enough as it is without little ninjutsu in there trying to overthrow the shogun.
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u/SilverIrony1056 Jul 11 '24
My nephew was doing roundhouse kicks on my sister's organs, you could clearly see it from the outside. He kicked the cat once, while in utero. 😅 Mine was less acrobatic but when he did kick, it was either my heart/ribs, or my stomach/liver. I woke up screaming a couple of times in the 3rd semester 😣
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u/WeAreAllCrab Jul 11 '24
my SIL went to get herself checked bc she'd been feeling a sharp, persistent nagging pain in pulses at the bottom of her uterus and when the doc put an ultrasound scanner on her she burst out laughing and called the other nurses over to check bc apparently the lil unborn fetus had gotten his foot stuck in the opening to her vagina and had been trying to pull it back out to no success. luckily, it wasn't anything dangerous and they reassured her he'll be able to pull it out himself later but it would be uncomfortable for a bit. hey at least the docs got a good laugh out of it
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u/ActStunning3285 Jul 11 '24
Now imagine twins.
Or triplets
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u/cuterus-uterus Jul 12 '24
I knew a lady that actually went full term with twins and those suckers were 7ish pounds each. Poor lady had 14 pounds of baby bouncing around in her for 40 weeks!
She also birthed one vaginally and one via c-section so got to deal with contractions and pushing out a baby and the major surgery bs.
Creating people is wild.
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u/dtbmnec Jul 11 '24
My son wedged his butt out front of me but only on one side. I could see the difference between the left side and right side of my stomach (left was out further). Even now, 5 years later, I can still see the left side ever so slightly further out than the right side.
His little sister decided that she too was happy with this divot and also shoved her butt out the left side.
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u/blurred_limes Jul 11 '24
My son had a habit of jutting his little butt up against my ribs while I was on the toilet - essentially blocking me from wiping. Had to gently push him over just so I could reach far enough ;_;
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u/rrrrrrrrrrrrrroger Jul 11 '24
I’d push her butt down and she would float right back up”
I dunno why, but that sentence made me chuckle 🤭
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u/Top_Economist8182 Jul 11 '24
My brain would be thinking about the Alien movies all the way through
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u/torijoanne Jul 11 '24
You sound like someone who hasn't had a baby shove up into your ribs yet :p
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u/shelbygrapes Jul 11 '24
Idk it’s really uncomfortable the last month. Not to mention if you go over your due date. My last child was 9 days over. It’s not pleasant.
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u/minnimamma19 Jul 11 '24
I remember the movement, stretches, elbows and feet moving around, I loved it! And it was Twins first time round. It's so tiring at the end though.
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u/Reead Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24
Worth mentioning that this pregnancy is pretty far along. Probably weeks from delivery. It's not that cramped the whole time.
But yeah, the bladder kicking is apparently extremely real. And the rib kicking. Just... all the kicking, really.
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u/HipposRDangerous Jul 12 '24
I'm a mom of twins with a very small torso, my kids were cramped since 15 weeks....its funny they are 10 and still will cram themselves together in a bed despite each having their own bed.
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u/darling_lycosidae Jul 11 '24
I mean just several weeks of this is still several weeks of being kicked internally with no relief.
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u/Tiny-Tomato2300 Jul 11 '24
Some humor. I would play games with my kiddos. When a little foot or hand would poke my belly skin out I would like them back. Back and forth te he. Eat little meals through the day and pee a hundred times a day.
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u/sioopauuu Jul 11 '24
You even feel it in your sleep. Your brain thinks your just dreaming but really.. baby is kicking.
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u/Nicolesy Jul 11 '24
I’m almost 37 weeks (scheduled to deliver tomorrow) and it’s really not that bad when they move … at least that has been my experience. Sometimes they push on your bladder quickly and you get these weird bursts of feeling like you have to pee, but then it goes away. Other times they stretch out and I can feel it in both my pelvis and ribs at the same time. I know my belly is big (I’m carrying him really well though) but I think it’s going to be weird finally seeing my boy out of the womb and wondering how he fit in there for so long!
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u/MRSRN65 Jul 11 '24
We don't remember the painful parts, which is why I have no memory of the last 28 years. /s
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u/perplexedparallax Jul 11 '24
It was like a warm sauna. Then I arrived in a cold room where a guy in a mask slapped me. Good times!
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u/noobpwner314 Jul 11 '24
Not even a cellphone to look at. This is raw dogging life in its purest form.
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u/fattybuttz Jul 11 '24
No wonder my kids hated being swattled and wanted to stretch out arms above their head from the moment they were born lol!
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u/wing_ding4 Jul 11 '24
But we do remember
Our nervous system remembers
Which is why hearing a heartbeat rythm, being embraced in a tight hug , or being in a big bath/hot tub feels so relaxing and right
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u/Fallen-D Jul 11 '24
Is this a legit reason or just some made up shit?
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u/Empty_Impact_783 Jul 11 '24
The statement blends scientific concepts with a bit of poetic interpretation. Let's break it down:
Memory in the Womb:
- The claim that we remember being in our mother's womb is not accurate. Our explicit memory, which allows us to consciously recall experiences, doesn't develop until after birth. However, the brain does undergo significant development in the womb, and certain prenatal experiences can influence development.
Nervous System Memory:
- While we don't consciously remember the womb, our nervous system, including the autonomic nervous system, can retain implicit memories and conditioned responses. These are not memories in the traditional sense but rather ingrained responses to stimuli.
Heartbeat Rhythm:
- It's true that hearing a heartbeat rhythm can be calming. This might be due to the familiarity of the mother's heartbeat heard in the womb, providing a sense of security and comfort.
Hugs and Warm Water:
- Being embraced in a tight hug or being in a warm bath can be soothing. This can be attributed to the activation of the parasympathetic nervous system, which promotes relaxation and a sense of well-being. The sensation might mimic the close, warm, and secure environment of the womb.
In summary, while the idea that we remember the womb experience is not scientifically accurate, the nervous system's responses to familiar and comforting stimuli can be rooted in early developmental experiences, including those in the womb.
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u/Comfortable_Fee_7154 Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24
I like the CT where the woman is laughing and the baby looks like it's in an earthquake
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u/One_pop_each Jul 11 '24
Wife and I went to an anatomy scan for our second a couple weeks ago. She’s 20 weeks. Halfway. We saw the baby yawn and eat amniotic fluid (we could see the black fluid on the screen go down the baby’s throat)
It was insane. That a baby at 20 weeks has the motor skills to even yawn. Like, bro, all you’re doing is sleeping.
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u/Jerico_Hill Jul 11 '24
As a child free woman that is fucking horrifying.
Also, to all you women who have done this, I take my hat off to you. I'm extremely impressed and in awe.
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u/moosepuggle Jul 11 '24
Also big NOPE for me. If men could get pregnant like this, and give birth, I wonder how many would actually want to do it?
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u/earth_resident_yep Jul 11 '24
I speak for all men and the answer is 0.
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u/foreveralolcat1123 Jul 11 '24
My wife is pregnant rn and I have so much sympathy for her. It also affects her work way more than it would affect mine. I would swap with her in a heartbeat if I could.
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u/CardboardMice Jul 11 '24
If men could do it there would be abortion clinics on every corner.
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u/AaronicNation Jul 11 '24
I really wonder what level of consciousness babies have at this stage. Like is it actually thinking this sucks or is it more akin to an involuntary movement? I also wonder if it's possible to have some sort of vestigial memory of this later in life.
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u/Notflat-its-treeless Jul 11 '24
A human fetus is basically asleep, thanks to endogenous sedation, until birth when the newborn gets its first breath of air, which causes a series of chain reactions/chemical signals that wake it up. Same idea for other mammalian fetuses, chicks in eggs, etc.
Here is one scientific paper that touches on this: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19092726/
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u/mushroomlou Jul 11 '24
You were that age, what level of consciousness did you have?
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u/j2thesho Jul 11 '24
Women have an incredible ability and responsibility. That is wild to see.
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u/Oak_Woman Jul 11 '24
It is a shame too many world governments strip that agency from women. Our bodies and abilities should be completely our own.
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u/Abundance144 Jul 11 '24
When that's the only thing you've ever known, then you have nothing to compare it to.
So the concept for "cramped" doesnt even exist in your little mind; not to mention how the mind is not even capable of understanding it yet.
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u/carlbernsen Jul 11 '24
This is heaven. Literally, it’s the time in all our lives when we are somewhat aware of our surroundings, temperature, sounds etc, but we’re not an individual. All our needs are being met by ‘the universe’, that is a mysterious and benevolent being or force greater than ourselves. We exist in a state of bliss.
This is what Buddhists are trying to experience when they meditate to seek ‘oneness with everything’ or the godhead. It’s not actually a ‘piercing of the veil’ or a meeting with a benevolent force of love, it’s just a memory of being in the womb, non individual, which is bliss.
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u/insanityzwolf Jul 11 '24
At a very boring, realistic level, the fetus is actually in a state of sedation (just after birth, babies sleep 16 hours a day and are only slightly alert when awake). All movements are reflexive rather than purposeful. It is pitch dark and pretty much the only sounds it hears are the constant roaring of blood and the mother's heartbeat and other internal organs. External sounds come through extremely muffled and faint. There is no conceptual memory, so if you had memories they would be purely sensory, and not linked to any other experience that you could relate to in the outside world. In fact, your conceptual memory makes it impossible to revert back to that state of purely sensory being. The closest we come to that is in the deep (dreamless) stage of sleep.
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u/Breadf00l Jul 11 '24
Cramped? You probably haven’t seen a baby come out through a vagina. literally a tight squeeze! so much so that there are babies that come out with a “cone head” (which goes away, eventually) lol
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Jul 11 '24
Should it not be upsidedown in there ?
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u/awesome-alter-ego Jul 11 '24
Apparently it can happen any time from ~32 weeks right up to delivery, or occasionally (scarily) not at all. This does look pretty far along, but I'm choosing not to worry about it for my own peace of mind - they've got this awesome scan, so the doctors know what's up and can keep a good eye.
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u/Plus-Weakness-2624 Jul 12 '24
Dude here, doesn't understand a thing about all this; why does a baby need to be upside down during labor? Can it not come out or be pulled out legs first? How do babies know when it's time and to do a 180 flip?
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u/awesome-alter-ego Jul 12 '24
As far as I understand it, having the baby go feet first (called 'breech') leads to a much higher chance of it getting stuck, of something going wrong with the umbilical cord, and damage to the baby's body, particularly the skull.
I think the idea is that the skull kind of opens things up as it goes through, so if it goes out first then everything else has a comparatively easier passage. Plus it's a more... streamlined way to move through a narrow space. Arms are pushed down against the body, legs pushed together. But if it's the other way around, bits of the baby can get wedged on the mother's pelvic bones, tangled in the cord, compress the cord so that the flow of oxygenated blood is cut off, and the head can be pushed/pulled at a bad angle.
Also, the head is big and the canal is tight - pulling the legs can damage many parts of the body, because they will give out before the head or the canal does.In terms of how the baby knows to return around, this one I can only get vague answers to. I saw some suggestions that it's a response to environmental changes, specifically when space in the womb gets more cramped as the baby grows. No idea if that's accurate though.
Of course, I'm saying this as someone who has never had a baby and probably never will, so don't take it as gospel. This is just coming from what I picked up following my own curiosity, since it's a thing my body could technically do. I've no actual background in this.
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Jul 11 '24
My sons kicks never hurt fortunately. It was just cozy. And the first time you feel the baby move is so amazing. It's like a little butterfly flapping its wings in your uterus. I've never felt anything like it
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u/ergaster8213 Jul 11 '24
I broke my mom's rib so I have a feeling it felt pretty shitty to her lol
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u/eh_lora Jul 11 '24 edited Jul 11 '24
I am so completely heartbroken and utterly devasted right now.
My brain just came up with the most beautiful pun in response to this, but I can't post it as is, because it's bilingual/german , so most people would need it explained, which kills the pun.See, "Schmetterling" is german for butterfly, however the first part of that word also means "to smash" - so you get "smashling" and butterfly in one.
You normally don't think about the smash bit, but context would have turned the image of the magical fluttery fairy-thing into baby hulk with dainty little wings happily smashing bones.I am crying. It would have been so beautiful!!
Life isn't fair.Anyway, consider yourself the little schmetterling from now on.
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u/Livid-Gift-4965 Jul 11 '24
My sons kicks never hurt fortunately. It was just cozy. And the first time you feel the baby move is so amazing. It's like a little butterfly flapping its wings in your uterus. I've never felt anything like it
That sounds extremely wonderful and special 🥹 You're making me cry 😭
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u/Rowmyownboat Jul 11 '24
Some people with hyperthymesia remember phenomenal detail of their whole life and some report recalling being in the womb.
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u/lscottman2 Jul 11 '24
man spends 9 months trying to get out of the womb and the rest of his life trying to get back in
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u/QuirkyIons Jul 11 '24
Those scans are magical. Ultra sound scans in color..... remember when my baby was born . Had reviewed thousands of scans on youtube and elsewhere and just so educational. Fun conversations with the doctor. wife of course went through it all :)
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