ElizabethHiems
ElizabethHiems t1_jdq5nhj wrote
Reply to comment by Mama_Mush in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Not by c-section. The full name for a c-section is lower segment caesarean section. That means performing a horizontal incision into the lower segment of the uterus to deliver the baby. That means there has to be a womb developed enough to have one.
If the baby is outside of the uterus then the birth will be surgical but it will not be a caesarean. Multiple specialist surgeons are required.
One of the most significant problems faced by the surgeons is that the womb is designed to have a placenta stuck on it. The rest of your body is not.
When the placenta comes away from the womb at birth, it creates a large area of trauma. The criss cross fibres of the uterus clamp down on the blood vessels cutting off their supply. It also decreases in size to about the height of your tummy button. Bodies are amazing.
But the rest of your body has no such mechanism so all the removal will cause trauma that has to be repaired.
Your womb normally weighs about 60g, but that increased to 1kg by term. If the baby has grown outside the womb, the womb still weighs 60g.
If you have two wombs and get pregnant in one of them, only one will grow. It has to have a baby in it to grow. If there is no baby in the uterus, labour will not start. There is no mechanism to tell the body it is time.
ElizabethHiems t1_jdq21hs wrote
Reply to comment by Mama_Mush in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
How exactly would labour start? Did the oxytocin receptors form on the tiny uterus? Is the lower segment there? If a baby grows in your abdomen then you don’t deliver by caesarean and you won’t go into labour.
Source: 20+ years experience and actually looking after someone this happened to.
ElizabethHiems t1_jdmys9s wrote
Reply to comment by Due_Insurance8159 in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Natural labour would never have been an issue. The baby wasn’t in the uterus so it wouldn’t grow, labour would never even start.
ElizabethHiems t1_iucvbl9 wrote
Reply to TIL that Transdermal Celebration by Ween has a guitar solo that was played with Carlos Santana's guitar without him knowing it. Ween sneaked into the storage where Santana's tools were, played the solo just once, recorded it, and left the place. That solo is the one used in the final song. by outfoxingthefoxes
Someday by ween was one of our wedding songs.
ElizabethHiems t1_jdqbkeg wrote
Reply to comment by HisSilly in TIL, the placenta that forms with a fetus isn't created by the mother. It grows from the fertilized egg and some fetuses actually develop outside the uterus attached to the intestines in the body cavity. by darw1nf1sh
Ahh placenta percreta.