Women's Reproductive Health Issues

Agrippina · **#61** by **Agrippina** » Oct 11, 2011 11:44 am

Interesting.

Except I was thinking more along the lines of babies being grown in incubators. :rofl:

Durro · **#62** by **Durro** » Oct 11, 2011 11:50 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artificial_uterus

http://www.artificialwomb.net/

They can grow endometrial cells from stem cells, but haven't yet solved the issue of forming a working placenta that can feed/oxygenate the foetus and carry away wastes.

:popcorn:

Agrippina · **#63** by **Agrippina** » Oct 11, 2011 12:12 pm

Seriously interesting Durro. The only missing thing would be the emotional involvement though. That would be difficult to simulate.

Durro · **#64** by **Durro** » Oct 11, 2011 12:48 pm

Perhaps so. But if the glass is half full, it could potentially lead to a pregnancy without an inability to lie supine, swollen ankles, haemorrhoids, morning sickness, weight gain, gestational diabetes, eclampsia, placenta praevia, cord strangulation, amniotic embolism, post natal depression or any of hundreds of other things that can happen during a pregnancy, ranging from the inconvenient to the rather horrid and fatal. And that's without mentioning the actual birthing process...

As the Monty Python quote goes when Stan wanted a sex change to be Loretta in Life of Brian and have the right to have a baby, "Where's the foetus going to gestate ? Are you going to keep it in a box on the shelf?" The answer it seems, may quite possibly be yes, or at least a solid maybe, in the not too distant future.

The_Metatron · **#65** by **The_Metatron** » Oct 11, 2011 12:54 pm

Agrippina wrote:Just like with the menstruation business, you'd think that medical science would've figured out a way for women to have babies without all the pain and suffering.

You had to have known this was coming...

Doubtdispelled · **#66** by **Doubtdispelled** » Oct 11, 2011 1:12 pm

Durro wrote:Perhaps so. But if the glass is half full, it could potentially lead to a pregnancy without an inability to lie supine, swollen ankles, haemorrhoids, morning sickness, weight gain, gestational diabetes, eclampsia, placenta praevia, cord strangulation, amniotic embolism, post natal depression or any of hundreds of other things that can happen during a pregnancy, ranging from the inconvenient to the rather horrid and fatal. And that's without mentioning the actual birthing process...

As the Monty Python quote goes when Stan wanted a sex change to be Loretta in Life of Brian and have the right to have a baby, "Where's the foetus going to gestate ? Are you going to keep it in a box on the shelf?" The answer it seems, may quite possibly be yes, or at least a solid maybe, in the not too distant future.

I was rather lucky in that I never, through four pregnancies, suffered from anything more than a tendency to haemorroids, slight morning sickness, and with the third, heartburn and indigestion in the second trimester. If I had, I probably wouldn't have been mad enough to have a second family when the first were nearly grown!

Plenty of babes have been grown in the lab in sci-fi stories, but I don't think it would result in happy people. As Aggie said, the emotional involvement would be difficult to simulate, and I think it begins before birth. It would probably result in children like the poor mites they found in the Romanian orphanages, who were profoundly damaged by a lack of human contact.

Agrippina · **#67** by **Agrippina** » Oct 11, 2011 1:47 pm

Yes, while I agree with Durro on the complications of pregnancy and certainly now after seeing my two d-i-l go through really difficult births, it would have been nice to get the two beautiful grand babies without all the drama, but I was emotionally attached from the minute I thought I might be pregnant. I wouldn't have liked to visit them while they grew in a box. When one of mine was in neonatal care for a few days after I left the hospital. I suffered extreme separation anxiety. Also while I was away from the two older ones travelling overseas, I dreamt about them every single night, and it was always about going home to fetch them. So yes, it would have been too difficult for me to do it that way. The pain (which incidentally was bad but taught me that "this too shall pass" ) was worth the 38 years I've had them in my life. I think most mothers feel that way.

Fallible · **#68** by **Fallible** » Oct 11, 2011 1:55 pm

I hated pregnancy, but even I would be unwilling to forego the absolute best part of the whole shebang in my view - feeling her moving around in there. It's a feeling I still miss now, 11 years on. It almost made the pre-eclampsia worthwhile. ALMOST.

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