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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2014-11-03 06:42 pm

[ SECRET POST #2862 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2862 ⌋

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Re: Jezebel does article on MPREG

(Anonymous) 2014-11-04 01:01 am (UTC)(link)
I might come across as a weirdo for saying this but…I don't really find mpreg that weird.

Like…it's (theoretically) biologically possible. You don't need a uterus to carry a fetus to term (a woman had an extrauterine pregnancy and they simply did a C-section). The embryo could attach to, say, the omentum. It's not particularly safe (there's a high chance that something could go wrong) but it's not impossible either.

Same with hormones -- taking hormone injections or…hell…men can actually produce human chorionic gonadotropin (the hormone that's tested for by pregnancy tests) since men with testicular cancer produce it.

Then there's male lactation which is also possible and documented.

I don't know…I think it's a fascinating topic. But maybe I'm just a weirdo.
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Re: Jezebel does article on MPREG

[personal profile] cloud_riven 2014-11-04 01:20 am (UTC)(link)
"You don't need a uterus to carry a fetus to term"

Really? That's kind of cool, and now I know exactly what I'm reading up on tonight.

Re: Jezebel does article on MPREG

(Anonymous) 2014-11-04 01:24 am (UTC)(link)
It's dangerous not to have a uterus, but it's not necessary to carry a baby to term:

"On 19 April 2008 an English woman, Jayne Jones (age 37) who had an ectopic pregnancy attached to the omentum, the fatty covering of her large bowel, gave birth to her son Billy by a laparotomy at 28 weeks gestation. The surgery, the first of its kind to be performed in the UK, was successful, and both mother and baby survived."

Wikipedia's got more info here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ectopic_pregnancy

Re: Jezebel does article on MPREG

(Anonymous) 2014-11-04 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
"High chance that something could go wrong" here meaning "the chance of something going wrong is nearing 100%". There've been four cases in recorded medical history of successful delivery of live babies developed outside of the womb, all in the past 15 years. The rest require intervention long before they could be considered even remotely viable because either the risk of hemorrhage is too great to continue the pregnancy, or the mother has already begun hemorrhaging when the diagnosis is made.

It may not be impossible for a cis man to carry a fetus to term in the absolute literal definition of the word, but from any reasonable scientific or medical standpoint, it's still an impossibility because so far the success rate of extrauterine pregnancies in human beings is a negligible fraction of a percent.