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Can someone who's actually gone through a birth from the mama's point of view explain how this might work?
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Now, I've had an incredibly fast birth before, but even still, it was several minutes and a little bit of effort before the placenta followed.
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the part of the birth that they don't show you on tv is when the mother has a few more contractions to get rid of the placenta. mini-labour.
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My uterus does not know whether to cringe or applaud.
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I also know people who had several days of labor. Like ShanaElmsford said, every delivery is different.
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I like these genes, personally.
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Some women don't even know they are pregnant because they continue to have their period and don't show signs of significant weight gain. There was an interesting special on Discovery, I think, that detailed the stories of a few such women here in the US. I always thought it was so strange for a woman to not know she was pregnant, but turns out there are a lot of good reasons for it.
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In Paris, you pay for a ticket to go underground and see the historic sewers. In Delhi, the sewers are free for the public to see and run openly in the streets.*
Seriously, there's so little working infrastructure to deal with the sewage problem in India that they're stopped trying. Hence the shit on the railroad tracks. Also the fact that the entire city of Delhi (17 million people, at last count) pumps its RAW sewage into the Yamuna River. The river looks like a slow trickle of black ooze, and has the consistency of a milkshake. No one will go near it -- even by Indian measures, people consider it toxic. The slums and the poor villages all over the country are severely under-supplied when it comes to facilities, and people have no choice but to shit in public places. You often see children playing in filth, because there's no other place
Its maddening.
Ask Indians, and they'll tell you that with one billion people, there's no way to control the problem, and they're doing the best they can. When you point to China, which has a similar population load and which has much, much better infrastructure to deal with this sort of thing, they will tell you that China is a dictatorship, and doesn't have to deal with the inefficiencies of electoral democracy. But SERIOUSLY. How hard can it be to just figure out a way to process all that shit? There's enough money, enough people, and definitely enough need for it to happen -- there's just no political will on the part of the country's elites, because they're long dealt with the problem by making sure that THEY have clean places to defecate, and by turning a blind eye to WHERE their shit goes. They don't have to live there, after all.
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*joke lifted from some book I read. I claim no credit.
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When I was in my 20's I used to bartend at a Gentlemen's club. One evening the doorman came to the bar white as a sheet to ask me to watch the door for a moment, he had been in the mensroom and found a plunger handle up sticking out of a toilet. On said plunger was evidence of...well ...self violation.
We often wondered who would deface our plunger but we never found out who it was...
I have more of these stories, but I will wait till we have a Stripclub of Horrors thread.
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