Tell me a fascinating fact about pregnancy... - Page 5

[sewingsparklz]

Originally Posted by Lady Lilya

It is better than the alternative of not having enough hormones. They say that having worse morning sickness means your chance of miscarriage is lower.

Yeah, they say that, don't they? Yippee.

Couldn't I have *just* the right amount of hormones and not be so sick?

No offense to those with hormone deficiencies!

[sewingsparklz]

I do have another interesting fact, though. Did you know that when the baby's eyes are being formed, thousands (millions?) of nerves grow from the brain to meet thousands of nerves growing from the eye, and they all have to meet up exactly for vision to be correct? A-MAZ-ING!

[jee'smom]

There's lots of examples in the human body like that. The 2 parts of the pituitary and adrenal glands come from 2 different embryonic origins. Even the vagina... the female reproductive system grows downward to form the top half of the vagina, while the bottom half grows upward, and they meet... where they meet forms a thin membrane, which we know as the hymen. cool huh?!

[sewingsparklz]

Originally Posted by jee'smom

There's lots of examples in the human body like that. The 2 parts of the pituitary and adrenal glands come from 2 different embryonic origins. Even the vagina... the female reproductive system grows downward to form the top half of the vagina, while the bottom half grows upward, and they meet... where they meet forms a thin membrane, which we know as the hymen. cool huh?!

That's gross.

[bcblondie]

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[Psmythe]

WOW!  You really started something!  I hope it picks up again!

Did you know:  You may be more clumsy than normal during pregnancy?  Not just from the obviously protruding belly affecting your balance either.  Some of it is from your joints relaxing, some from tiredness, some from balance.

So far this pregnancy I've fallen badly twice.  Once breaking a bone in my elbow and spraining my wrist.  Last night bruising a knee badly enough that I'm still icing it tonight.  I'm only halfway there, I think I'm going to start wearing my bike helmet and some elbow/knee pads whenever I venture outside.
 

Originally Posted by bcblondie 

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[lifeguard]

GREAT thread!

I'm definitely more clumsy (which is impressive). I've fallen down the stairs during both of my pregnancies.

[bcblondie]

Yeah. I started it when I was pregnant wiht my last but we miscarried. So I think without me commenting to keep the thread going it died. :( I'm pregnant again so yay! And finally a reason for my clumsiness!

[RosieL]

Thanks for the thread and bump, it's an interesting read. I kinda wonder whether some of these are substantiated, but they're all pretty neat to think about all the same. 

I thought the breast crawl was fascinating; I'm sad there aren't more videos of them. 

[bcblondie]

Yeah I take the facts wiht a grain of salt just in case. A lot of these things are hard to prove, like abilities of the unborn baby. But if it's believable it's fun to believe lol.

[catters]

Originally Posted by MaerynPearl 

the heartburn = hair old wives tale is actually true.

not 100% of the time of course, but more often than not.

Both heartburn and fetal hair growth are believed to be caused by higher amounts of estrogen.

I actually thought this was false for the longest time as well, despite that I have horrid heartburn and three babies with full heads of hair (and more heartburn with the first two than the third, and the first twos hair was thicker)

Whaa?!  That's crazy!  I totally thought that was an old wives tale.  My son was born with so much thick black hair that he looked like he had a toupee on.  It was seriously about an inch long.  My poor daughter?  Born with wispy thin strands!!  I was also terribly sick with her, and not at all with my son, I thought more estrogen made you sicker?  I also never had heartburn with either of them.  Hmmm.  Wonder why I had so much estrogen with DS.  By the way, his hair is still seriously so thick and luxurious. Just like my husband's.  DD, poor child, has the same hair as me.  Thin and blah.  Alas.  This is such an interesting thread!

[TeamGR]

Within an hour of their birth, babies will mimc other humans.  If you stick your tongue out at a new born baby and wiggle it around while they are paying attention, they will do it back to you. They will also open their mouths, open and close their hands and turn their heads if those are the actions you do while they are paying attention. 

Social bonding starts early. Rhesus monkey babies do this too!

[nukedwifey]

Don't worry I had no heartburn during my last pregnancy and he had hair.  A lot of it.  It wasn't dark though, it was blondish brown.  :)

He was also born in May and was 7lbs 7 oz so he could have been just 7 lbs if he was born in a different month?  LOL!  The next one is due April 30th.  I'm thinking that's too close to May to be a good comparison. LOL!

Originally Posted by WifeofAnt 

Originally Posted by MaerynPearl

the heartburn = hair old wives tale is actually true.

Do you know when it has to strike by? I'm nearly 33 weeks and starting to think I'm going to have a bald baby.

[nukedwifey]

Originally Posted by MaerynPearl 

Oh... this is sort of pregnancy related...Labor day and Memorial day are (U.S. holidays, early September to late May) the exact distance apart that if you got pregnant on labor day this year (ovulated that day, which was September 6th) you would be due on Memorial day (May 30th).I just find that very fascinating. Moreso because my birthday sometimes falls on Labor day (September 4th) and my husbands birthday is sometimes Memorial day (May 28th) but they would always be corresponding. I turned 1 on Labor day 1983... and that was right around when he was conceived. He was born on Memorial day 1984.

My DS's due date was May 30th but he was born May 28th.  :)
 

[FaithHopeLove29]

nothing to share but loving this thread!