poke*pop*
I doubt anyone has given any serious thought about the gestation period of humans. Luckily, I have a job that allows me to be lost in thought and really not miss anything.
We all know that the gestation period for humans is about nine months, and we all know that it's for every baby that's ever been born since the beginning of time. But what if, by some weird meteorological event or something, the human gestation period was altered, and any subsequent baby born after the first one would have their gestation period cut in half?
Let's look at it this way: John and Lucy got married the day before this strange space phenomena. They get pregnant with their first child in September 2008. Their first child would be born June 2009 (if all goes according to plan).
A few months later, they decide to have another child. Lucy gets pregnant at the beginning of September 2009 (it's a very love-filled month). But! because the gestation period is cut in half, she's gonna have the kid mid-March 2010. And if she gets pregnant with a third child early May, she's having it late July, early August.
And these babies wouldn't be premature or anything: they'd be fully developed, healthy babies.
That sounds really cool, until you consider that some families like to have a lot of kids...
Nurse: "Welcome to Heartland General Hospital. Can I help you?"
John: "Yes, we'd like to have our 22nd child."
Nurse: "... Catholic?"
Lucy: "Yes."
(i apologize to catholics everywhere)
Nurse: "Okay, gestation is... just over one and a half minutes. Into the birthing room, please."
It'd be kind of like poke*pop*
We all know that the gestation period for humans is about nine months, and we all know that it's for every baby that's ever been born since the beginning of time. But what if, by some weird meteorological event or something, the human gestation period was altered, and any subsequent baby born after the first one would have their gestation period cut in half?
Let's look at it this way: John and Lucy got married the day before this strange space phenomena. They get pregnant with their first child in September 2008. Their first child would be born June 2009 (if all goes according to plan).
A few months later, they decide to have another child. Lucy gets pregnant at the beginning of September 2009 (it's a very love-filled month). But! because the gestation period is cut in half, she's gonna have the kid mid-March 2010. And if she gets pregnant with a third child early May, she's having it late July, early August.
And these babies wouldn't be premature or anything: they'd be fully developed, healthy babies.
That sounds really cool, until you consider that some families like to have a lot of kids...
Nurse: "Welcome to Heartland General Hospital. Can I help you?"
John: "Yes, we'd like to have our 22nd child."
Nurse: "... Catholic?"
Lucy: "Yes."
(i apologize to catholics everywhere)
Nurse: "Okay, gestation is... just over one and a half minutes. Into the birthing room, please."
It'd be kind of like poke*pop*