Delivering a baby

October 25, 2007

Sometimes we forget it’s messy business:

I don’t care what health video you saw in high school, but it clearly digitally-removed most of the blood, fluid, and poop that ends up under the woman pushing. It is not a pleasant affair. From a purely physical perspective, you have a woman pushing a bowling pin through a nostril, and in the process, blood is sliming or gushing out; amniotic fluid (clearish with specs of white floating in it) is seeping out as well.



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{ 2 comments }

1 Anonymous October 25, 2007 at 8:41 am

blood, fluid, and poop, and trial lawyers

2 Anonymous October 25, 2007 at 9:37 am

My parents were born at home in the 30s, and they note that one reason to go to a hospital was to let them deal with the huge mess!

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