Why bones/tendons/muscles/joints don’t get the same regenerative capabilities that the liver has
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I grew up around a couple of from Italy Italian families that made Everything from scratch.
The box stuff is fine, but there is something great about fresh pasta.
You know what to do. 
They do if you’re an axolotl.
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pretty sure he was talking about homo sapien sapien
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Are outtie belly buttons a decision the person tying the umbilical cord up makes or are all outties botched innies?
I feel if outties are a decision, it’s a dick move.
Neither. The cord is usually left a couple inches long and dries up and falls off on it’s own after a little time. You belly button shouldn’t be in any way affected by how the cord is tied.
I assumed it drops off because it’s tied off …the knot happens naturally? Freaky!
The knot isn’t natural, but it has nothing to do with whether it’s an innie or outie.Once it’s cut, it seals off. The parent has to clean it for a while, a couple of weeks I think, and then it falls off. Innie or outie was decided in the womb.
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This would be better suited in a “things rhaf blew your mind” thread, but there you guys go…
It’s gross. Like a scab inside their belly button. Ugh.
It wasn’t nearly as freaky as when my first kid came out with a conehead, because of all the things I heard about childbirth, I somehow missed the one piece of knowledge that I’d like to have had the most - that it’s normal for a kid’s head to look elongated and pointy from being crushed in the birth canal, and that I don’t have to murder the nurse for handing me some fucked up little alien.
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You sure?
It’s even more gross when you start pondering the fact that the bellybutton is your old mouth.
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Ewwwwww.
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I feel there are a lot that goes on in that birth room that they in no way prepare you for lol I mean, for the first kid they signed me up for a class to listen to what a crying baby sounds for 10 minutes to make sure I knew what a crying baby sounded like but the horror show I was walking into… Nothing.
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That’s because they knew you would not show up if they enlightened you.
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A lot of people told me that if they were really crying you could just pop them in the car seat, go for a late night drive, and they’d pass out. It worked like a charm with our first one, so when we had our second, we figured it’d be the same.
We figured wrong.
I’m not sure still if he had carsickness or something that caused him to be uncomfortable in the car, but he would scream when we drove. I don’t mean the fake cry that you learn is bullshit a few months in, I mean the actual distress cry where they choke because they’re crying so loud. On top of this we would visit New York from Virginia a few times a year, and the trip is anywhere from 6 to 10 hours (you have to drive through DC, Philly and Baltimore to get there, so if there’s no traffic you fly and if there is you crawl), and this time was a 10 hour journey.
He cried. FOR SEVEN HOURS. I was sending my family all sorts of texts that had them worried that I was going to kill my kid. Before I had kids, when I heard about Shaken Baby Syndrome, I would ask, how could anyone shake a defenseless baby? I found out that day. I literally had an uncontrollable urge to pull over, pull him out of the car seat, and shake him while screaming.
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Oh, and just so we’re back on topic…
I’ve always wondered how people who I am replying to with one word answers, face to face, while repeatedly breaking eye contact and motioning as if I’m going to walk away, can still keep talking to me like everything is cool.
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Birth of my first child: “Honey, of course I will be with you in the delivery room, I wouldn’t miss it for the world. It’s one of those precious, magical moment that will define our life”
Birth of my second child “ha ha ha no fucking way”
Also, I don’t understand how gynecologists are able to have sex.
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I was in the delivery room both times, I just never looked down there. I thought that’s what all guys did.
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I’d imagine it’s the result of a natural fascination to horrific stuff similar to why ppl slow down to look at the aftermath of car accidents or watch gory footage
@loppar Just be glad you don’t belong to one of those cultures that believe in making the husband “share the pain”. There’s one where the midwives/doctors tie a string to the husband’s balls and give the other end to the wife to pull each time she has a contraction
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