Monday, February 14, 2011

HW 34 - Some Initial Thoughts On Birth


When I think about birth, I immediately associate with miracle's .And their are some events which are so unlikely that their effectively impossible. In my opinion this is what makes birth so amazing because when you think about it theirs about thousand million sperm vieing for a single egg.There are so many possible things that could go wrong just in the process of having a baby. The egg has to be there at just the right time.The sperm has to makes it way into the egg. The embryo must stay planted in the uterus ,not cycled away during the woman's menstruation or in the fallopian tubes. The woman and the man must be producing the right hormones , the right cell divisions must take place in the embryo. The fetus has to stay in the womb the correct amount of time.

These odds are topped by the countless generations meeting , staying alive,until they make a exact son and a exact daughter who make up your mother and father, and of that union a thousand million children compete for fertilization, but you, only you are born.To me this is miracle in itself the ability to distill so specific a being from the chaos of improbability.

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