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[-] NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone 152 points 9 months ago

I’m no botanist, but shouldn’t it be giving birth to a baby skellington?

[-] JoMomma@lemm.ee 45 points 9 months ago

I am a botanist, and yes, yes it should

[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

Can confirm
Source: i was the skellington

[-] Akasazh@feddit.nl 4 points 9 months ago

As an expert on skellington gestation, I must confirm this.

[-] DisguisedJoker@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago

The baby skeleton is inside a fleshy protective layer that will be shed later.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 109 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I'm glad my mom has skin and other organs.

[-] imaqtpie@sh.itjust.works 73 points 9 months ago

Wow, look at mr. dermally privileged over here. Born with a semi-permeable membrane protecting your vital organs. Must be nice

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 28 points 9 months ago

You know you're just propagating the evil skeleton stereotype with that attitude, buster.

[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 20 points 9 months ago
[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 8 points 9 months ago

Hey, I'm not anti-skeleton. Though she does have early osteoporosis so hers is letting her down...

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 51 points 9 months ago

Are there any doctors in the house? Because I'd swear that looks like they used the model of a male skeleton here.

[-] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 84 points 9 months ago

I'm a doctor and I can tell it's right because there's no penis bone.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 13 points 9 months ago

So you've confirmed that the skeleton is probably human then, and not a primate?

[-] ignotum@lemmy.world 15 points 9 months ago

is probably human then, and not a primate?

In the same way that a sparrow is not a bird

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 8 points 9 months ago

My reply was more about humans not having a penis bone, although most primates do.

[-] IsoSpandy@lemm.ee 60 points 9 months ago

It is actually a male skeleton based on the pelvic bone. If this is indeed a female skeleton, then the woman will not survive giving birth to this child due to Trauma induced Post partum hemorrhage due to Lateral diameter insufficiency in a female with Android pelvis. I would have sent her to C section as soon as she went into labour, preferably even before that.

[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 11 points 9 months ago

Thank you for that! I'm a computer tech, so the furthest thing from having any real medical knowledge, but I've seen enough to think that those dimensions just looked really wrong and comparisons to real skeletons online just seemed to reinforce that belief.

[-] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 9 months ago

So that's why they call it a miracle.

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 33 points 9 months ago

Sending this to my pregnant friend

[-] MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 25 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

The bones usually make a bit more place during pregnancy... and this skeleton looks male.

[-] Shou@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

It looks female to me. Look at the pubic arch.

[-] EdibleFriend@lemmy.world 11 points 9 months ago

Oh, I'm looking.

[-] Lucien@hexbear.net 4 points 9 months ago

Did you just assume that skeleton's gender?

[-] D61@hexbear.net 11 points 9 months ago

Somebody made a graphic of 3 year old me's understanding of childbirth...

[-] embed_me@programming.dev 7 points 9 months ago

That is not a normal position right

[-] sicarius@lemmy.world 54 points 9 months ago

My wife gave birth like this, right on the living room floor and my daughter came out in an egg. The whole thing happened so quick, the midwife only arrived a few moments before she dropped, lucky as she needed to cut the egg open and get my daughter out.
Meanwhile I was lying on the sofa with a broken leg trying to stop our cat from eating everything.

[-] late_night@sopuli.xyz 48 points 9 months ago

This would make an amazing Renaissance painting

[-] dingus@lemmy.world 39 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I like how you describe her as "in an egg" lol. She was still inside the amniotic sac. The majority of the time, the amniotic sac ruptures prior to delivering the baby. The baby is delivered first and then the placenta follows soon after. But when both are delivered together with the sac entirely intact, it has a special name called an "en caul" birth.

[-] crapwittyname@lemm.ee 20 points 9 months ago

Legend has it that babies born en caul, or "in their waters" will never drown at sea.

[-] AFC1886VCC@reddthat.com 11 points 9 months ago

Lemmy, educational as always

[-] muffedtrims@lemmy.world 9 points 9 months ago

Better Caul Saul

[-] GBU_28@lemm.ee 5 points 9 months ago

Hell yeah brother

[-] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 9 months ago

Can one say your daughter's a cute chick? Does she still squawk from time to time?

CC BY-NC-SA 4.0

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 4 points 9 months ago

Off-topic, but do you put that license link in your comments as a way to say that you don't agree with them being scrapped for commercial usage?

[-] melooone@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago
[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 1 points 9 months ago

The link is giving me a "couldnt_find_post" error

[-] melooone@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago

Yeah. I don't know why but I also can't open it, shared it using Jerboa. But the reason is basically AI scraping and that AI/LLM's can spit out their training data so that notice could show up there. They provided this article: https://stackdiary.com/chatgpts-training-data-can-be-exposed-via-a-divergence-attack/

[-] nossaquesapao@lemmy.eco.br 2 points 9 months ago

This was a very interesting read, thanks for the link.

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[-] bhamlin@lemmy.world 37 points 9 months ago

It's one you can use. The position we normally see is actually not really all that great for childbirth. It generally leads to more tearing, but doctors use it for easy access. Squatting or bent over like that can be easier and more comfortable for the woman. It's just harder to get all up in there to see what's going on.

[-] AtmaJnana@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

Its not abnormal. I'm no midwife, but I recall from my childbirth class, its one of a few main positions used.

https://www.lancastergeneralhealth.org/health-hub-home/motherhood/your-pregnancy/5-different-birthing-positions-to-try-during-labor

[-] Duranie@literature.cafe 11 points 9 months ago

Sunny side up!

That baby is positioned upside-down. They should be facing backwards, then the back of the neck pivots against the pubic bone during delivery.

[-] ClockworkOtter@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

Very normal. My partner gave birth in this position. The stirrups position is abnormal and often worse.

[-] 0ops@lemm.ee 7 points 9 months ago

I think you're talking about the position of the baby in the womb, right? Not the woman? Normally yeah, the baby would be facing the other way (still headfirst)

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 6 points 9 months ago

This is the one thing this post gets right. Hands and knees is better because then the baby can move downward, if you are on your back you have to push it up and out.

[-] SPRUNT@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

Be right back. I gotta call my mom.

[-] Thcdenton@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

["Mississippi Queen" plays]

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