Would you like to discuss conception and prenatal development? Oh. So just me then? No one else wants to hear it? Oh well...
When I ponder the human body, there are two ways I approach it usually. I think a lot of people do this too.
1) If the human body is malfunctioning in some way, the approach is one of disapproval. For example, I know I've said this statement a few times, "Gah, why can't my stomach just work correctly?"or in the case of observing other people bodies malfunctioning I think, "Jeez what is wrong with their brain?"
2) If the human body pushes a limit, exceeds an expectation or overcomes an illness or disease, the response is like "Wow, aren't our bodies amazing?"
The thing is, both options are true. We are incredibly fragile but incredibly strong. People can run Ironmans and Ultramarathons but if a saline IV's Sodium Chloride concentration is a thousandth of a percent off from .9%, you've either got yourself someone with red blood cells shrunken so small they can't hold hemoglobin, thus oxygen, so you die, or you get someone whose red blood cells bloat up with water until they burst and then they die. Pretty weird right, that kind of contrast?
I read a lot of pregnancy books. I read "what to expect when you're expecting" when I was 13. Cover to cover. I read scholarly books and mainstream, "walmart" books alike on fertility, prenatal development, childbirth, the whole deal. I'm aware that it makes me a nerd Its very intriguing to me and I think I've figured out why.
I could write a very long paper on the absolute impossibility that can be seen if/when a healthy woman releases a healthy egg and that turns into a healthy human, because from the moment ovulation occurs, so many things can go wrong. An egg isn't even guaranteed to make it into the uterine tube! It can be released into the abdominal cavity, never to be seen again, or it could be fertilized out there and then we have a real problem. Regardless, I believe that the entire process is meant to be seen as amazing, and impossible from the very beginning, so as to raise attention to the miraculousness of the fact that this is how we get our humans, that they are perfectly and wonderfully made. I see the huge amount of things that had to go right for you to be standing in front of me, and through that I see God's hand, ever present, and I know that he thinks we are pretty cool too.
So when I call you an idiot, bear in mind the fact that I am still aware of the incredible, reverent, amazing, impossible thing that you are, know that your being, your body puts me in awe on a daily basis and that I know some of the sheer, perfect, pristine order and process that it took for you to become at least a living, (if not all the time) functional human being.
And this fact, the fact that I can see past your current state of being stupid, and still know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you are amazing, is why I feel I'm called to deliver your babies.
"How it gives my heart blood"
Specks
Funnn-kneeeee
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