26Born Twice
A pregnant mother with twins lost one fetus in the first trimester and the other developed a coccyx tumor the size of a fetus that was killing it. In 2016, doctors removed baby LynLee from the womb, cut off the tumor, then put her back in the womb and she was ‘born again’ healthy 12 weeks later.
27. Ancient Egyptians had a pregnancy test where potentially pregnant women peed on barley and wheat seeds. Plant growth indicated pregnancy: Barley for a boy; wheat for a girl. Later tests showed that urine of pregnant women does cause plant growth 70% of the time, while urine of non-pregnant does not.
28. There is a disorder that is thought to be purely psychological called Pseudocyesis, where a woman shows all the symptoms of being pregnant except for the presence of a fetus. Their belly grows at the right rate and they can even go into false labor.
29. Aztec midwives advised women to continue having sex until the 7th month of pregnancy, saying that, if women abstained, their children would be sickly and weak.
30. During pregnancy, the baby growing in its mother’s womb needs plenty of calcium to develop its skeleton. If the mother doesn’t get enough calcium, her baby will draw what it needs from the mother’s bones. Women often lose 3% to 5% of their bone mass during breastfeeding and recover after.
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31Morning Sickness
Pregnant women are affected by morning sickness to protect the unborn fetus in its most vulnerable stage when organs first start developing. It clears her system (via vomit) of substances that typically carry microbes or toxins.
32. First modern female pregnancy test was conducted in the 1950s and the procedure involved injecting a woman’s urine into a female frog’s skin. If the woman was pregnant, then within 5-12 hours, the female frog would lay eggs.
33. A 36-year-old Indian man named Sanju Bhagat was teased his entire life for looking pregnant, so he got the condition checked out. The doctors ended up pulling out the hair, hands, bones, and limbs of the man’s twin brother, who had been trapped inside him while they were inside their mother’s womb and continued to grow post-birth, from his stomach.
34. Physical exercise during pregnancy has been found to have a positive impact on the cognitive development of the child, as measured using EEG a few days after birth.
35. ‘Meconium’, the first bowel movement of an infant, can be tested to determine if the mother smoked, drank, or engaged in drug use during pregnancy. Meconium testing can be used in the US to determine the eligibility of the parents to keep their newborn child.
