How Pregnancy Is Like Growing an Alien Inside You
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- Опубліковано 20 лют 2018
- Pregnancy is quite a feat. The embryo manages to develop, get food, and get rid of their waste, all while staying under the radar of their parent’s immune system.
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Body: what are you doing??
Ovaries: Relaxin
When my wife and I first found out she was pregnant instead of crying with happiness she said “I AM SCIENCE!”
Good luck with that I'm not being sarcastic forreal
Regularguy Anonymous you my friend, have an awesome wife
Mr.StealYo Girl thanks, I love being a dad.
Vanessa Shantae thanks, she’s pretty rad. I like her ha ha!
Regularguy Anonymous
Sounds amazing!
I'll take "holy hell, let's never get pregnant" for 500, Alex.
A funny analogy I just realized works: The reproductive system is basically a freeloader in the apartment of your body. They don't pay rent (help you survive) and don't work, but everyone else has to pay for their groceries. Every month the reproductive system gets their room ready for a new roommate, witch the other systems don't want because a fetus also won't pay rent and will make a massive mess and eat everyone's food. If the roommate doesn't show up, the reproductive system throws a fit, tears off the wallpaper from their room and makes everyone miserable. If the roommate does show up, they have to barricade themself in the reproductive system's room or else the immune system will kick them out. The fetus also bribes the brain, who changes everyone's quotas and jobs to make sure the fetus is fed.
Witch - woman who practice magic.
The word you intended to use is which.
The Absolute Madman Oh shut your tiresome whining. If people want kids they will have kids, if people don't want to have kids they wont have any. And pregnancy is risky. There is no guarantee that the child will be healthy and able to care for itself one day. So leave people alone.
+The Absolute Madman
Supporting a parent isn't a matter of being raised properly, it's something a kid may or may not do depending on whether or not the parents need help, how they treated the child or those around them, whether or not the child has the resources to help their parents, etc. If you're counting on a baby being an investment rather than a person, that they have to help you once you're older no matter what you do, or what you or they have, that's pretty damn awful.
Aside from that, though, I'm pretty sure OP wasn't suggesting children are freeloaders. They were describing bodies, not babies.
they were already in the mothers body in the form of an egg, there is a hole in your analogy. Plus the fetus does not eat all the food, it shares it.
The reproductive system doesn't help YOU with survival but furthers your species, which tbh is its only purpose
All I can do is quote House, hehehe.
"Don't worry. Many women learn to embrace this parasite. They name it, dress it up in tiny clothes, arrange playdates with other parasites."
VelvetKitsune Shut up fake edgy ass 😂
Sounds like something Doctor Who could have said as well! :D
I find this funny even tho I dont agree that babies are parasitic to the mother. They could be to a twin but not to a mother cause they came from inside the mom.
You forgot the part where he says it becomes illegal to remove xD that scene was hilarious
Your the only parasite around here
while i was watching this i felt my fallopian tubes tie themselves. Thanks guys, now i don't need birth control
Hahaha best comment ever 😁 same here, no parasites, thanks 😁
I'd rather be struck by lightning, pushed down 80 flights of stairs, be stung by killer bees, eat fire ants, and then stub my toe.
DrVetSaveYourPet I would rather give birth.
@@frei6913 weirdo
Same
Yep, totally helping with the body horror I feel about pregnancy. None for me, thanks!
Do not read Junji Ito's Uzumaki, let's just say this made the scene with the newborns a lot scarier and that's just adding to an already freaky read
Lol nah. Babies are awesome and it's all worth it when you get to hold half of you in a tiny form ☺️
🤣
@@deenice7015 nope.
@@deenice7015 No, it's not worth it, at all. Anyone who says so are trying to justify their own sunken cost because of a selfish gene.
"Some fetal cells can get stuck in the parent and may be passed on to other children"
Like, what...? So, if you're from a family of seven and you're the seventh-born child, part of you is a mix of your older siblings? How did we even find out about this...?
Ganaram Inukshuk genetic sequencing most likely, there have been cases where a twin would consume another twin and the dna gets mixed in certain areas.
I have a coworker who is the second to last out of ten children. Thanks to you I know how I'll roast her tomorrow *evil laugh*
Sapphirll I'm gonna do the same to my little sister. ;)
salt tectonics Which has caused tragedy at times when women has been accused of stealing the children they gave birth to.
When I was six my parents said my little brother was a little bit of both of them. I said part of me was there too, they said nah. I was RIGHT
Funny thing is a fetus meets every definition of a parasite with the exception that is of the same species
Haha, well said!
Yolo Swaggins I read that in Zoidberg’s voice.
tvdan1043 I would be disappointed if you didn’t.
that's why I like to refer to them as Same-Species Parasites
It's almost as if the definition of parasite was written to specifically exclude fetuses. Oh wait, that's *exactly* why the different species part was included.
The weirdest thing about possibly having cells from your siblings is I have an older half sister. If I had any of her cells. That means I could have cells that originated from someone I'm not even related to which is super weird
I've said that mammals' reporductive system in general is like a symbiotic/ parasitic relationship. Depending on how the body reacts to the pregnancy. The two I had with my kids was totally symbiotic (like my asthma symptoms went away during the whole pregnancy!)
My son's refusal to be born caused me to have a cesarean. After he was out the surgeon said, "Your appendix looks _funny."_ Turns out I had a malignant tumor in my appendix! The surgeon accidentally got it all _by TWO cells_ between the excision and the first malignant cell! I never had to have another surgery for that, never had to have chemo or radiation, and it's 33 years later (almost) and I'm FINE!!! That tumor would NEVER have been found by any routine exam or test. My son saved my life, FOR REAL, on the day he was born!
Woah.
Art Geek Design
Let me point out that, if you're considering entering a state of perpetual pregnancy to avoid having asthma symptoms, it might be detrimental to your body in the long run.
But you probably already know that ;)
BertyFromDK Uh. I'm not entirely sure where you got that idea. But, I would never consider that. I only had two, out of four, due to other complications. Also, I'm way past my "breeding prime". I merely stated this to highlight why I thought such a way.
However, your response got me thinking. Not everyone would "get" it, that perpetual pregnancy is bad for the overall biology. So, on that note (to others that read my first statement), remember that there are other changes that effect you long term too. For good AND ill.
Art Geek Design I didn't mean to offend or upset you, it was just meant as a joke, but in hindsight it was probably a bit tasteless. I hope you will accept my apology.
Pregnancy is weird, gross, and damn uncomfortable. I'm so glad I'm never doing that again. 2 rounds was enough for me. Thank goodness I adore my little parasites 😂
12,237 calories, that's all I'll say
honestly the first piece of media i ever see that doesn't explain pregnancy as some wonderful, mystical, magical thing. content like this (factful and honest) is essential in understanding issues with abortion, even if you don't agree with them, because it's presented as a (yes) natural process but also as a complex one. thank you, scishow.
maya ortiz that's why i really like this video. It's the science side of pregnacy. Not the Disneyified version everyone tries to sell you.
I love the science side of reality. Less philosophies, more facts. There is a scientific cold, hard reality to everything - including pregnancy. Pro-choice, would abort if it was the right decision.
Intrigue same reason here, pro life, would abort if it's the right decision.
it was honestly magical to me, so id say magical pregnancy is subjective.
oh yes, i can't deny for people who experience it it's life-changing, but there is something i feel is wrong about teaching magic to everyone from a young age and creating pressure about how they have to feel about it. different people have different experiences and personally i think the best way to ensure everyone acts according to what they want and to what their rights allow and not to meet expectations is to teach them objectively, with the truth. present them with the wonders as well as the risks. so that when someone makes the choice to start a family, they're well educated about their choice.
I read a really great article about how pregnancy is really kind of like a battle between the mother and fetus. Some people theorize that we have menstruation cycles because pregnancy is so taxing on the body that we can't afford to host a weak baby. If the fetus doesn't excrete enough hormones and take enough resources, it gets expelled.
Okay, like I got ROASTED by an entire class when I suggested this back in High School and College, but here is someone making money on YT content from exactly the same things I said!!!
Same thing happened when I asked if you could get pregnant whilst still pregnant.
Sucks
Pregnancy is the reason for 100% of all births.
TCfoxs not all pregnancies end up with birth...
in vitro fertilization................
TCfoxs ???..... in the world, in the species, in all mammals, in all marsupials, in all whales, in all hot-bloo-wait the platypus and the echidna.
Umm.. in all robots.
When can we delegate this to robots, sounds less risky.
PS sometimes they end in death
Wow this boi has a high IQ.
He is not saying that all pregnancies end up with birth. He is saying that for every birth there is a pregnancy.
"Pregnancy Is Like Growing an Alien Inside You" I have the distinct feeling that this episode's title inspiration came from someone's shower thought.
sachikoaichan or it came from normal thoughts. Each time I’ve been pregnant I’ve said I’ve been infected by the bodysnatchers. Viability made it an Alien. Also watching the movie of the same name helped. 🤷🏾♀️😂
You have a strange shower situation...
As someone with tokophobia, I always thought pregnancy to be a horrifying nightmare that I have _zero_ interest in taking part in. DX
I have always found the mode of reproduction of mammals to be somewhat disgusting... That is just an irrational feeling, but also has to do with the fact that I like birds more than mammals
Here, here!
@@KateeAngel
Imagine you had to carry a huge egg everywhere and warm it all the time. At some point it's more practical to have it in your body.
@@MrCmon113 Except the bird doesn't carry the egg around at all time?
@@akirasaito1551 they put in home to thieves stole
Where is muscular hank to tell us how he could feed 200 babies at once with his power muscles?
Good question
It might have just been easier to keep laying eggs....
I think a number of these have to be present for egg layers too, to prevent problems while making the outer egg.
It’s now about 25 years ago that I gave birth to my daughter. Now that she is a grown woman, I find it hard to let her go. Finding out that there will always be a part of her that stays with me makes me unbelievably happy. I’m so happy that I watched this video.😃
Afterbirth soup.....doesn't sound too appetizing.
Sounds something like a god would eat.
It's usually capsulized, but yeah, it's weird.
electronicsNmore I mean we eat grosser 😂 with that said I’m not eating my placenta
Great with croutons.
It doesn’t. Considering that the placenta is the barrier that protects the baby from harmful toxins and chemicals; it seems like a horrible idea to consume them along with your own blood and body tissue.
Having twice been a pregnant person I can confirm it is like having an alien inside you, and it is super weird and sometimes unsettling and completely mind-boggling and incredibly cool.
a week after valentines, nice touch!
This guy gets it
RafTheDude kinda anti pregnancy now
Did anyone think they'd be watching a video about growing aliens inside people today? Weird yet fascinating.
Ibrahim Ahmed no i didn't think that... because I knew something about it
Also, the title says, "Is like... an", which shows a similarity to, saying that they are they same thing.
well I might have if there had been any confirmed evidence of aliens ...
Sadly, nothing so far. Not that I haven't looked.
Yeah, but I'm pregnant so I've been looking for videos like this 🤣
My human anatomy teacher in high school actually called fetuses “parasites”, since they technically just take stuff from your body and don’t give you any benefits in return.
Actually, there's evidence of fetal cells in scar tissue and may even help the mother's heart. Researchers have found fetal cells years after a mother gives birth. Fascinating, I think.
They swap dna if I remember correctly. Something about mothers sometimes ending up with DNA of the kid.
1:09 what the absolute hell. Noah please get the ark, we need to start over
*bursts out of chest*
well it bursts ew
*skreeeee*
Out comes the Xenomorph
Hello my baby, hello my darling, hello my ragtime galllll
R P you're not the only one.
Today i came to know that i am an ALIEN!
We are aliens to aliens and aliens are aliens to us.
As long as you are not an illegal alien you are ok LOL 😆
i got told to go back to my home planet by a youtuber and my response to him was since when does he want illegals going back to their home countries (meaning the ones who came here as babies because of their parents)
i didnt even need to type the ( ) he already knew what i meant but i just wanted to clarify it to this comment section
Luckily I was grown in a lab the normal way
ya i am being hated on for my supernatural powers and it sucks i can tell i am going to die pretty soon i wont be able to live to 2019 if things keep going the way they do
Don't you just love relaxin
Connected lol
Oh yeah
I was expecting a description of how a xenomorph develops in the human body. I am sorely disappointed.
why? you basically got whaat you wanted.
only, that these psychopaths manage to implicitly shift blame to the child.
pregnancy is 100% the parent's doing.
@@pervaction4658 And this is why we should legalise abortion.
I would like "Eating and Excreting for 2" on a tshirt
This reminds me of when I was pregnant with my first. I had a blood transfusion when I was younger so I had to have a certain blood test done to make sure my body wouldn't attack the baby. Everything turned out fine in the end, but it was very scary to wait for the results.
Good usage of "parent", "pregnant person", "they", etc. I was really impressed and pleased with the gender neutral language.
Children are not parasites . By this logic everyone is a parasite. Which humans in reality are to this Earth.
melquisedec delgado if you think about it, humanity is a deadly virus. We’ve wiped out so many different species of plants and animals in our efforts to be comfortable, and we’re in the process of trying to find new planets to colonise, aka new “hosts”. After Earth is dead and gone lots of humans hope that some of us survive on other planets, just to repeat the cycle.
Kids manipulating their parents since before birth, yay!
NerdyGeeky well, mine has always been a quick learner. It hasn't always been easy, youngest in class and everything that comes with that.
#soccermum #humblebrag #prodigy #skippedagrade
Celina k I am one of the youngest in my year and have always done better than most. Does that make me a prodigy?
Rmmc 1203 sure, why not. It just means you used 10.000 hours on a skill before you could vote
Celina k You need to learn the definition of prodigy.
well, children quickly become brainwashed by their parents once they're born and old enough to learn/obey.
until they hit puberty and the teenage rebellion begins, of course.
Never knew the immune system was so hostile to fetuses. Wow
iilikecereal its a byproduct of the immune system looking for foreign DNA
iilikecereal i never knew the fetus was so vampiric, and bloody. 50% more !
It's hostile to sperms too as they have 50% of the DNA of a normal cell. Immune cells are trained to detect stranges proteins in the membrane of the cell, and those proteins are a product of the information of the DNA, so if the cell has a strange DNA (cancer cell, sperm, embrio, cell infected with a virus) it will express proteins that are strange to the inmmune cell and get killed. That's why in the testicles sperms in development are surronded by other cells that protect them form the inmune system
Damn, this comment section is a nightmare.
Great job making it so much better with your commentary. We all thank you!
Do you mean the discussion about pregnancy itself, abortion, or the useless pushing of an ideological narrative in a science video?
FluteGeek so is pregnancy
This video was posted 9 months ago...
The circle is complete.
Yeah, I've heard about the foreign cells/immune problems theory before. It's certainly plausible with my family. My parents came from eight and nine sibling families, and my grandparents also came from large families. I was the last born of three in my family. All three of us and my parents have unique autoimmune diseases. Given that autoimmune diseases tend to run in families, it makes sense that there'd be something heritable about it, but it's clearly more complicated than the prevalence of certain genes, since the diagnoses are so different. It's also very telling that the majority of people with autoimmune disease are female, which lends credence to the fact that pregnancy might be involved.
Holy crap! Now it all makes sense. She probably found out she was pregnant around the time of this video!
Im currently pregnant with my first child so i relate with this 100% being pregnant is totally weird
this reminds me of that one gif that shows a fetus growing and all of the host's organs being pushed around to make space for it :///
This comment section is going to be a warzone.
Fross Fairy yep.
Hold on to your helmets, we're here for a wild ride
lol darth lol... i couldn't decide who i should be.... then i saw this comment... rotf
Personally, I am having a total blast with this postmodernist propaganda video and it's cult members trying to "educate" people in the comment section. The last laugh belongs to me.
Why?
This video was very, very carefully worded.
IKR, heaven forbid they offend the speech police
i mean look at the person thats speaking
Except that they kept calling the unborn a baby instead of a fetus.
@@ZZ-sb8os You sound just like one of them.
I used to play bass for "Total Annihilation of the Embryo"
And when he kicks and moves it truly does feel like there's an alien in there
But it's also super cool and nice to know they're doing ok in there.
Yay, Olivia’s back!
Torterra i love here akward short silences yay
Torterra she's me hero
Torterra This is literally the opposite of when she first came on the show. I appreciate that.
Weldon Spivey right? I never understood the hate she got. She's amazing!
She's my fav for sure lol.
I fix title: How pregnancy is like growing a parasite.
I was scared there would be a large debate in the comments about abortion. I am mildly surprised.
I just came here to say that I never forget that scene from Dr. House where he tells a female patient
"You have a parasite. Don't worry though, lots of people learn to love this parasite. Give it a name, dress it up in tiny clothes, take it to places to play with other parasites ..."
Turns out she was pregnant.
Didn't need a video to tell me this- I've *lived it* .
ICARUSxRISING then why'd u click???🤔
wbtbwb360 I thought it'd be different.
I've been doing prenatal and paranatal massage therapy for six years. That takes continued education in my field.
My comment was supposed to be humorous...
ICARUSxRISING haha good times am I right?
If anyone ask.. I'm relaxin
That dark reality your whole lineage has done this
Most women wish it was a “parent” having this happen to them, as most men have no idea!
Oh no, with such a title, this will quickly get political...
Drew G. Lol thaaaaats politics! Little babies crying.
How is that title remotely political :/ ?
She explained it really cool, well done scishow!
The word blastocyst has always made me think of the pokémon blastoise lol
Wonder if we can take the lining of the placenta and use it as a barrier between donor and recipient for organ transplant.
If the Ancient Aliens guy (Giorgio A. Tsoukalos) was an obstetrician:
I'm not saying it's a baby boy... but it's a baby boy.
Yassss fam
Had to google who that was
Just say “ancient aliens guy” when you want to make this joke lol
David Stinnett
Excellent advice, thank you. I'll edit my comment ^_^
Master Therion you always have the best jokes, keep it up, friend :D
Best comment ever.
I hasn't taken birth control in 2week could I be pregananant
12 Gage best comment on here
no but you might be pregert, get that tested.
You are fragante
You mean gregnant?
Not the place and we don't care
I have learned more about my own pregnancy than what my doctors have told me with this video. Thanks.
I think it's awesome you kept your language gender neutral. It doesn't change the science and it's inclusive to trans men, nonbinary people and intersex people who could get pregnant. Very nice touch, thank you ❤️🏳️🌈
yes, detaching females from the female repro system is clearly indicative of a science based agenda
I once got thrown in jail for growing an alien inside someone
No more we have muscle and old Hank
ALIEN SUPPORT
but was it an illegal alien tho xD
Depends on which country he implanted it in.
i’m so glad that someone in the scientific community finally said it. i’ve always felt this way about pregnancy, which is why i hope to never be pregnant. ever. thanks for confirming my fears! 😃
It's called tokophobia, and I'm trying to raise awareness for it because I feel it's an under-addressed angle of the abortion discussion.
The Absolute Madman If she grows a pair she wouldn't be able to get pregnant though.
And cowardice is a virtue of its a valid fear that can save your life.
There is a big difference between cowardice and fear.
There's a big difference between a choice and being a coward. Children aren't the be all end all and personally I despise the expectation of children that is placed on women. I do not want to have children or fit that narrative. I would rather we all suffer for not contributing to the over glorified 9 billion inhabitant goal people who defend our population like to state or nobody cares who is and is not having children. Men should "use their pair" and have more pressure to have kids if we are trying to even out the playing field. Instead of the unjustified "use you womb" by old timey folk. Again... *9 billion*
if children arent the be all end all why are you existing? werent you a child? someone chose to have? Plus I think its kind of ironic that people say there are too many people on earth and have the audacity to sit there being living and breathing.
During the birth of all 3 of my boys, my stomach cramped and my thighs felt as if they were on fire. Within a half hour after birth, everything went back to normal. My wife was happy I felt pain, lol...
That was very good. Thanks Olivia. Often during childbirth, the placenta tears and the baby's blood will mingle with the mother's. If the mother has a specific blood type, (O neg, A neg, B neg, or AB neg) and the baby has a specific blood type that is different from the mother (O, A, B or AB positive), she will develop antibodies against that blood type, (the positive part). That baby will be out, so it won't effect them. Any subsequent pregnancies after that, though, can be trouble. If any of those later babies have that same blood type as the first baby, the mom is already ready with antibodies and will attack it. There's a way to get around that, though. If, when they find out the baby has that specific blood type (any positive type), right after the baby is delivered, they are ready and can inject a bunch of the pre-made antibodies into the mom. Those pre-made antibodies neutralize the baby's blood so the mom's immune system doesn't get alerted to the problem and therefore doesn't have to make antibodies of her own...problem solved.
My parasite has been growing for 8 months so far 😂 so close to meeting him 😂
I hope everything works/worked well for you
Lordy, wish I'd seen this is like... May of 2016.
I had to have a c-section anyway, because my body derped and her heart rate was super low.
And hey, did you know, if you have an autoimmune disorder or a few other chronic disorders (like my fibromyalgia), the HIV test you might be required to take, based on the state regs/your drs office/your age can come back positive? Yeah, that was a super fun week and a few days of panicked Googling.
Relaxin was real fun to deal with too. I started getting the loose joint symptoms when I was like... 4 months along. And I worked, in retail, until 10 hours before I went into labor (5 days before she was due). Working retail sucks because people yell at you if you can't move fast enough, or have to sit down a lot. But, you know. I had to work so *shrug*
Snowhawk Przhevalsky I know the work pain. I was working on a production line in a factory - mandatory OT. I had to get my doctor to restrict my hours. (Thank God for FMLA.) I think the joint loosening always starts that early, but some notice it more than others. I did too. At least the end result is pretty awesome, after you get it out that is.
In Sweden a pregnant woman can be granted pregnancy leave if her pregnancy is high risk. And the employers is not allowed to fire you and the government pays you.
Well, I was in Texas so... 'murica
Snowhawk Przhevalsky I have fibromyalgia too. Never thought I’d learn something useful from a UA-cam comment section. Thanks for sharing your experience!
I had NO idea about it, and I figure if my experience can help someone else, then awesome. There was basically no chance of it being a legitimate positive, but man, did not help the freaking out.
250 parents did NOT think it was funny. I thought it's hilarious...and also weirdly accurate.
One time, at band camp, I end all my sentences like I'm asking a question?
"Science makes everything sound painful!"
...And that concludes reason #98 that I'm not having children
You always mysteriously manage to release videos appropriate to the modules I’m currently doing in my college course, which is always a big help, thanks guys! 😂
Did you know "Relaxin" was discovered by The Fresh Prince of Bel Air in the early 90s?
As someone who has been humming and hawing ever having kids, this video has not helped the pro-kids argument 😬
Except that it's not an alien; it's your bridge into the future, beyond your mortal life. It is the product (as are you) of 3.5 billion years of unbroken struggle, tragedy, and triumph. It is as natural as eating and breathing, but profoundly more meaningful.
Drapetomanius Grimr It's also a pain in the ass that shits itself.
Science with Katie well if i understand jordan peterson right. We dont have to convince you. At a right age your brain will convince you. Unless you are part of very few non-maternal women.
That was their intention
Hector Diaz That has feelings.
She knew she was pregnant when she made this video lol
She was?
I always enjoy listening/watching Olivia :D
I've been saying that for years... it's like growing an alien parasite.
Nice pregnancy announcement Olivia.
This video is offensive against people who get pregnant but don't identify as parents.
You should say instead "Things", like in "Things get thingy so a thing does something in their thing", it would be clear for everyone.
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Wow, this is perhaps the most informative video on the subject I've seen on UA-cam so far.
During this whole video... i just kept thinking, "i want that beanie."
Pregnancy is quite perplexing but so neat!
Jillian G. Prudent this is the attitude this video should have had...
icerhex yes true
Hmm.. I noticed that people with two(see multiple) sons(myself included), the younger is often taller, but that part about leaving cells behind almost like cache (or browser cookies) would allow a uterus to sample dna and "remember" the list of previous kids and perhaps add some convoluted evolutionary mechanism to differentiate the second, often opting for bigger.
Even in female siblings, the younger sister always looks like a knock-off but inexplicably hotter than the older sister.
Like all my crackpot quandaries, I'll leave a real scientist to research that.
i agree about the younger sister lol. works for younger brothers too!
I'd think it might be easier for the body to do it a second (third, fourth...) time. The skin becomes more elastic or something.
Can confirm the size effect for my siblings.
The amniotic sac, not a fluid the amniotic fluid is fluid. The amniotic cavity/sac is just the cavity surrounded by the amnion. The amnion secretes the fluid for the foetus to float in isolating it from gravity and protecting it from extreme changes in temperature or extreme temp (all hail high specific heat capacity of water due to hydrogen bonds caused by waters polar nature!!!). It also helps it with the foetus with muscle development and swallowing reflex
Thank you! Great video as always.
Hey SciShow! Just wanted you to know that your trans inclusive language in this video has been noticed! Im cis but im sure its appreciated by any trans people in your audience! :)
I have two perfectly good ovaries and have never been relaxed in my life
Get it
Relaxin, released by the ovaries?
ahaha
4:53 the chillest hormone I've ever heard of
A human growing inside another human is an inherently strange concept, yet it's just how it is. The fact that it takes two people to make one is strange too. Reality is stranger than fiction.
I always imagine it would be weird to try to explain that to an alien race who procreate differently.
"It grows? INSIDE of you? And you have an organ specifically for housing that from which is leeches off of your bloodstream? And only a tiny percentage is ever born and that process causes all kinds of permanent damage up to death reguarly? And your newborns are all premature because otherwise you would die? wtf?!? How are you not distinct?"
YOU CAN DONATE YOUR PLACENTA TO SCIENCE AND YOUR CHORD TO SICK BABIES. my personal chord went to stem cell research and my sons went to cancer research for babies.
0:10 "We usually make pregnancy sound like a wonderful 9 month period of parental bliss." Who? When? Anyone in the history of ever? This is the first time I've even heard of someone advancing the notion that people advance that notion. Maybe virgin Nun teaching in catholic school might have that much of a distorted view of reality. But outside of something like that I don't think that's how it's made out to be at all.
everyone, who wants grandchildren ,lol.
it's horrible actually. for everyone involved.
and it's not that the horribleness stops there.
people get indoctrinated into that sick little half-immortality fetish left and right. exactly by using words like "wonderful" as a positive descriptor.
I can see it as something a parent tells their offspring later when they are in danger of missing that window. But by then the person should know better. Should have seen enough people go through it to know that it isn't all that wonderful. I mean unless a person grows up completely sheltered how could interaction with the world not cause that lie to fall apart rapidly?
Yeah I've never heard anyone say to me that pregnancy is absolute bliss. My mum was very honest to me about her experience - how being pregnant made her exhausted and nauseous etc.
@@pervaction4658 Just making sure i understand your point - are you saying people get brainwashed into having children?
@@calypsoc3630 at least that's what my perception throughout my life was. Parents, Friends etc acted like it was not even a question by phrasing it this way:
"WHEN are you starting a family?"
But i couldn't help but to translate that in my head into : "When are you gonna gamble with someone else's wellfare?"
"Why do you care about your imaginary child too much to put it under the stress and risk?"
"Why don't you, a 20 year old, NOT decide for someone to grow to 80 years old?"
I can't even imagine, what female children have to endure brainwash-wise.
And yes. Most 20 year olds are children. Philosophically. So are most 80 year olds.
Sorry, but they not only retain but presuppose their childish "imposition fetish" as a "how it should be" when it's only a weird "how it unfortunately is"
When you're pregnant you literally feel like you've got an alien inside of you that's weird sometimes
No. Stop.
As someone pregnant now, I seriously wish I would have watched this before I got so. Wouldn’t have changed my mind but maybe I would have been better prepared for how awful it’s been! No one warns you!
Câncer and pregnacy have lots in common
luis fernando Except the fetus can be something useful and beautiful in the future, and cancer cannot.
luis fernando yeah you realise how short life is. Your wallet goes on a diet that can effect you for a couple of decades. You find out who your real friends are.
Oh wait, did you mean biologically. Yep, that too.
I adore seeing all these people hating on procreation. They will remove themselves from the gene pool. How awesome!
*Me, an idiot:* cancer
*Luis Fernando, an intellectual:* câncer
Truth. Methotrexate is a chemotherapeutic medication. It is also used as an abortificant to treat ectopic pregnancy or terminate an early pregnancy.
I really appreciate the fact that this video used inclusive language like pregnant parent. I just wanted to let y’all know it means a lot to me. Great video.
People think I will change my mind about wanting a baby...but I'm 21 and still have no frigging interest in a baby, or pregnancy.
Amazing video. Thanks!