On the subject of childbirth.
After a little post by the esteemed miss Maryam, I remembered this little episode from one of my anthropology classes:
I don't recall exactly when it was, but I think it was last year's summer semester. We were listening to the professor talking briefly about neonatology, because we needed to keep that in mind for population models or something along those lines, anyway, while the professor was explaining how the fetus grows in the uterus, by the way, that would make a great edutainment song. The fetus grows, in the uterus, the placenta feeds the neonatus, dadade dada da daaa...aaah...ahem.
Anyway, the professor was explaining that when a girl, or more a woman, in her early 20ies, got up and challenged pregnancy working that way, specifically saying that it couldn't work that way. Silence in the auditorium. So the professor asks: "Why exactly?" And said woman, with a determined and confident look on her face replies "Well, how is the baby supposed to go to the loo in there?"
Of course, chaos ensued. It took the professor about 4 minutes to get everyone to shut up again, by which time she had left. Here's hoping it was a joke, but she looked dead serious. Even when everyone started laughing. Guess she'll be in for a surprise one day. Maybe.
I don't recall exactly when it was, but I think it was last year's summer semester. We were listening to the professor talking briefly about neonatology, because we needed to keep that in mind for population models or something along those lines, anyway, while the professor was explaining how the fetus grows in the uterus, by the way, that would make a great edutainment song. The fetus grows, in the uterus, the placenta feeds the neonatus, dadade dada da daaa...aaah...ahem.
Anyway, the professor was explaining that when a girl, or more a woman, in her early 20ies, got up and challenged pregnancy working that way, specifically saying that it couldn't work that way. Silence in the auditorium. So the professor asks: "Why exactly?" And said woman, with a determined and confident look on her face replies "Well, how is the baby supposed to go to the loo in there?"
Of course, chaos ensued. It took the professor about 4 minutes to get everyone to shut up again, by which time she had left. Here's hoping it was a joke, but she looked dead serious. Even when everyone started laughing. Guess she'll be in for a surprise one day. Maybe.