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I am your host Rebecca Felgate and today we are talking the Top 10 Shocking Facts about
Birth.
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OKAY SHOCKING FACTS about BIRTH!
10 - Five Years, Seven Months, 21 Days That was the age of the youngest mother in
history.
Five years old.
That is honestly and truly very messed up.
Lina Marcela Medina de Jurado gave birth in the late 1930s age 5, and didn’t marry until
the 1970s when she was in her late 30s.
She had a second child in 1972, putting her kids 33 years apart.
Obviously having a baby at 5 – she was abused but she never revealed the identity of the
child’s father… many suspected it was her own father but he was never convicted.
Lina is still alive but her first child, Gerardo died age 40.
9 - The Reason We’re So Weak Danny Burke actually told me this at the weekend
and it was really interesting ! Have you ever noticed how some animals come into the world
way more self sufficient than others – like deer are standing up and running around later
that day?
A lot of newborns can almost fend for themselves but us humans are stuck there like….waa…?
Well this is all to do with evolution.
The trade off for being able to walk on two legs is having to be born pretty weak.
Pelvises are about as wide as they can be to allow walking and birth, humans cannot
gestate any longer than 9 months as if they do babies are born too big to birth naturally.
Also, the attachment babies have to their parents means that they have ample time to
learn from them, another reason why we are more intelligent than other animals.
8 - The UK Vs Africa Wonder what it is like bringing a baby into
the world in one of the poorest nations vs one of the richest with the best universal
free healthcare?
Well it seems in Africa, 1 out of every 22 women dies during childbirth or pregnancy,
while in the UK it is 1 out of every 8,000 women.
I absolutely cannot believe those statistics.
For every birth in Africa there is a 1 in 22 chance the woman will die?
Seriously the NHS in the UK is an absolute blessing and we should protect it at all costs.
7 - Birth Rate Alarmingly, It took over 200,000 years of
human history for the world's population to reach 1 billion; and only 200 years more to
reach 7 billion.
In my life time, the population of the world has boomed by over 2 billion.
There are 135 million babies born each year, but just 56 million deaths.
Experts think the birth rate has peaked and moving forward the death rate will increase
while the birth rate will decline slightly.
6 - Testicles vs Childbirth The age old question ehy – so does childbirth
hurt more than being kicked in the testicles!
Well it is complicated but the answer – factoring in the duration of childbirth – seems to
point to yes, childbirth is more painful.
The story goes that testicles are organs that live outside the body.
They are very sensitive and are covered in Nociceptors – like super nerves.
Testicles are also attached to nerves in the stomach which makes a person feel super sick…so…not
great.
But then females have these nociceptors too – and they have to push a babies head out
of comparatively small pelvises and can tear themselves in doing so.
This goes on for on average 8 hours.
There is no accurate universal measure of pain as it is subjective to the person experiencing
it so we cant definitively answer the question, but the duration a person in labour feels
pain last much longer than a person who has had a blow to the testicles.
5 - The Placenta is a Superfood You may be aware that some women eat their
placentas.
The idea comes from the animal kingdom where it is common for afterbirths to eaten.
The Placenta is rich in nutrients and for generations has been studied for its health
benefits.
In ancient Chinese medicine placenta would be eaten to help treat infertility and liver
issues.
These days placentas can be made into pills and taken as a daily supplement, buuuut others
choose to eat theirs raw or cook with them….
There are recipes out there for placenta lasagna or placenta spaghetti….
Carbs and placenta….
Mmmm… ackk….
4 - Bury It In a lot of first nations cultures, including
Navajo and New Zealand’s Maori, bury placentas after child birth.
Some bury it on the day of the child's birth, while others wait up to a week – often the
burial is part of a wider ritual and often this also includes planting a tree.
The reason varies from culture to culture but generally the unifying factor is to give
thanks for the baby and return nutrients to the earth.
Often if a person moves home they take some soil with them from the area they buried the
placenta in.
Hospitals tend to hold on to placentas for a few days for pathological reasons – after
that, they incinerate them.
3 - The 75 Day Labor Meet the woman who holds the record for the
longest labor – Joanna Krzystonek - The 31 year old went into labor at 21 weeks, and
sadly lost one of her three babies that was born prematurely – it seemed likely she
would lose her other babies so doctors delayed her labor by giving her medication to stop
her contractions.
She then had to lay upside down for 24 hours a day for two and a half months to allow her
babies to finish developing.
Her 75 days of labour are thought to be the longest ever suffered by a woman.
Joanna was over the moon when her two other babies, a boy and a girl, were born healthy.
She said I want to do is express my gratitude to the staff of this hospital for their wisdom
and helpfulness.
I would never have been able to get through this without them.”
2 - The 22lb baby The heaviest baby ever born and officially
recorded was 22lbs…which is 10 kilos and nearly 2 stone.
Big baby!
The baby boy was born to a seven foot 11 inch giantess Anna Bates in 1879.
The father was Martin Van Buren, who was 7ft 9 – and the pair travelled in a show billing
themselves as the tallest couple alive.
When Anna’s waters broke, she lost over 22 litres of fluid!
The baby was born the size of a 6 month old, and was 28 inches tall.
Sadly the boy died shortly after childbirth.
In 1982 a 22 and 8oz lb baby was born to Christina Samane but for some reason she doesnt get
the Guinness world record as her child had a birth defect.
The size of these babies reallllly puts me off.
Want to hear the craziest story you are going to hear today!
But really though
1 - The Miracle Baby A woman had a baby on the toilet of a moving
train in India.
If that wasn’t crazy enough, in India they don’t go in for a flushing train loo…
they’re more about dumping that waste directly on the train track ….soooo…. where did
the baby go… urm… out the hole.
The mother fainted after giving birth to the baby boy and wasn’t found until the train
reached the end destination.
Luckily the baby was later found on the tracks alive.
He had no serious injuries… he was underweight though.
What a start to life!
What a miracle!
WELL that was the top 10 shocking facts about birth ! Which did you find to be the most
shocking!
I imagine some of you watching have had kids although most of you probably don’t – either
way I hope that you learned something!
Again thank you to our video sponsor Simple Health – if you want to take control of
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Leave a comment letting us know your birth weight – any massive babies?!
Comments from Scary Deep Space Stories.
Rcrazywolf YT was paying homage to the Mars Rover Opportunity – they said - Rip opportunity,
you really were one of humanity's greatest...
Opportunities…
Right!
Danny Burke bought me a cactus recently and I called it opportunity after the Rover.
Opportunity forever.
Josi said: I saw some NASA footage years ago that featured a somewhat translucent and pastel
color-changing "snake" that tumbled and writhed around outside one of the shuttles.
It appeared organic and was absolutely fascinating.
In the years since I've been unable to find that footage again, to my regret.
It was mesmerizing and deeply weird.?