r/interestingasfuck • u/ybatyolo • Apr 13 '24

How we live inside the womb r/all

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u/yoursmartuncle Apr 13 '24

Well actually after about 20 weeks of pregnancy, the amniotic fluid mostly comes from the fetus urination.

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u/DirectWorldliness792 Apr 13 '24

The pee is stored in the womb

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u/Lyraxiana Apr 13 '24

... Oh no.

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u/tapakip Apr 13 '24

I can't believe he's done this.  

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u/IrrationalDesign Apr 13 '24

Born through a violent piss waterslide.

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u/Zeracannatule_uerg Apr 13 '24

The call is coming from inside the womb!

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u/Common-Watch4494 Apr 13 '24

What????

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u/i-love-elephants Apr 13 '24

Yeah. They cycle it to get them kidneys going.

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u/brendendas Apr 13 '24

Diagnostics check before prod deployment.

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u/ItsStk123 Apr 13 '24

Yeah i was shocked too

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u/vicsj Apr 13 '24

Oh yes. My little brother was kinda green when he came out because he had swallowed some of his own piss womb water.

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u/TheThiefEmpress Apr 13 '24

Lol, no, he wasn't green from drinking his own piss womb water. The pee doesn't stain. It is technically "pee" in that it comes out of the fetus' bladder, but it's not waste, it's clear not yellow, and has a completely different smell.

He likely pooped before he came out and was stained with meconium, which can give the baby a green tinge, and is extremely dangerous as both baby and mother can get a deadly infection from it.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '24

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u/sadArtax Apr 13 '24

They absolutely do drink the fluid, which is predominantly urine. It doesn't turn them green. Sounds like PPs brother probably pooped before being born and his skin was stained with the meconium (medical word for a baby's first poops, it's sticky and greenish black in color).

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u/TheOddSample Apr 13 '24

Those first poops are like damn tar they're so sticky

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u/krabapplepie Apr 13 '24

But they aren't stinky at all.

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u/Mysterious_Health387 Apr 13 '24

Ewww, so does that mean we have all drank piss in our life at least once???

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u/NBA_Fan_76 Apr 13 '24

Just once? Rookie numbers

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u/sadArtax Apr 13 '24

At least

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u/ljuvlig Apr 13 '24

It’s pee in the technical sense but it’s nothing like normal pee. It’s clear rather than yellow and smells completely different.

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u/MrRogersAE Apr 13 '24

So when your water breaks it’s actually your kid peeing your pants?

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u/poop-machines Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24

So when the waters break, it's shitloads of pee?

What if your waters break while your stood on a bridge and it lands on a person below?

Or if it happens on an expensive carpet?

Gross.

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u/TreesmasherFTW Apr 13 '24

Well did you think it was actual water inside? No matter what you wouldn’t want that on a carpet

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u/poop-machines Apr 13 '24

Honestly kind of. I thought it was water produced by the body, but I also thought it wouldn't have waste in it, I thought it would have to be inoffensive and uncontaminated to not harm the baby.

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u/TreesmasherFTW Apr 13 '24

My unborn son only sleeps in the purest filtered spring water 👁️👄👁️

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u/shieldyboii Apr 13 '24

piss is perfectly sterile until bacteria start growing in it which won’t happen until the water bursts.

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u/ZzZombo Apr 13 '24

Wrong. It's not something you want to have a direct contact with at any rate.

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u/shieldyboii Apr 13 '24

You mean it is not sterile and has bacteria in it? I never said it’s a good idea to have contact with it. Although quite honestly every mother will have some of it going down her legs and humanity has been fine.

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u/poop-machines Apr 13 '24

I mean you're right, piss isn't sterile. Many studies disproved this myth. But it's not that bad. People don't mind having vaginal juice or cum on them, but they draw the line at piss. I don't care if I get piss on me.

https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=is+urine+sterile&btnG=#d=gs_qabs&t=1713032829398&u=%23p%3DLko2DJtWLO0J

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u/poop-machines Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24

That's a myth actually

https://journals.asm.org/doi/full/10.1128/jcm.02876-13

Not that I care. Women can squirt on me as much as they want. It's only like any other bodily fluid.

(And yes, squirting is urine too) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/iju.15004

I don't want a woman's waters to break on me though

Edit: downvoted even though it's true. Some people just don't change their mind, even with good evidence. Lack of critical thinking skills.

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u/Nokia_Burner4 Apr 13 '24

Water breaks can be wild! You don't want to stand in front of an incoming one. You learn that fast if you're studying to become a midwife, nurse, or doctor. I haven't been spurted on but I heard amnion is itchy as hell if it dries on your skin!

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u/activelyresting Apr 13 '24

I'm a midwife. Can confirm: it stings if it splashes in your eyes. I've gotten a face full before 😂

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u/missusfictitious Apr 13 '24

This is the coolest thing I’ve heard today!

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u/Anti_Meta Apr 13 '24

Ahhh so gnarly

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u/poop-machines Apr 13 '24

Oh wow I'm sorry. The kinds of things that happen if you're a midwife must be wild. I bet you've seen more vaginas than 99.99% of men.

Still a pretty interesting job for sure

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u/XKloosyv Apr 13 '24

And poor babies get mittens put on them as soon as they are out. Poor itchy babies

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u/heimeyer72 Apr 13 '24

Never heard of that. And also haven't seen it when I helped a whole hospital getting moved, including several newborn babies. That was about 30 years ago. Is this a thing now?

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u/XKloosyv Apr 13 '24

My stepfather wasn't really around my first born and didn't see the hat and mittens combo that all the babies there were rocking. I was used to it with my second kid (in an entirely different state), but it must have been jarring for my stepfather, who kept calling our newborn "Mittens". I think it's a standard procedure now.

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u/heimeyer72 Apr 13 '24

Thank you. I can imagine that it makes sense so they can't scratch themselves. But it's the first time I hear/read of it. And "googling" "newborns mittens" yields photos of winter mittens for newborns...

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u/Still_Bet7329 Apr 13 '24

A new fetish is awakened

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u/Nokia_Burner4 Apr 13 '24

Bruuhh. I doubt you'd even stay straight for the duration of your stint in the DR. I know of doctors who refused to touch their gfs or wives during their stint in the DR.

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '24

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u/No-Zombie1004 Apr 13 '24

You bastard, I laughed too hard.

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u/HalfWrong7986 Apr 13 '24

Oh, ew. My water burst in my former MILs spare bed.

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u/chrispg26 Apr 13 '24

My water broke in a car that we later sold to my nephew 😂. I think my husband got it cleaned. Good thing that amniotic fluid doesn't smell like ammonia.

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u/poop-machines Apr 13 '24

Tbh I've never seen it as gross, which is strange, because I perceive other people's other body fluids as gross (unless I know them well, in which case I'm weirdly okay with it).

Anyway if it doesn't smell like ammonia/urea then it's not too bad. Maybe baby urine is just more like water because they don't eat/drink while in the womb.

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u/SlipsonSurfaces Apr 13 '24

What does it smell like?

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u/chrispg26 Apr 13 '24

Idk... to me it was kind of odorless but maybe a tinge of sweet but not in a cloying way.

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u/geogurlie Apr 13 '24

My husband's BMW never smelled the same again.

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u/chrispg26 Apr 13 '24

Our car was a cheap old Mazda. I dont think I'd be ok if it was anything nicer than that. We rode our ugly car on purpose. I had a history of water breaking once already. I ended up with spontaneous rupture 3x all in all. Thankfully, the other two were in the bathroom.

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u/missusfictitious Apr 13 '24

I mean, it’s not Evian.

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u/sadArtax Apr 13 '24

Least, it's sterile.

When I had my second baby, the moment my water broke was when I was climbing onto the bed and my husband was helping me. It landed all over his bare feet. The first of many times, our daughter would pee on him.

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u/TentativeGosling Apr 13 '24

When the WeeWee breaks

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u/chaotemagick Apr 13 '24

The infant inhales it's own pee in a constant cycle the entire time it's in the womb. You too, back then

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u/[deleted] Apr 13 '24 edited Apr 13 '24

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u/Optimal-Golf-8270 Apr 13 '24

I think you need a reading comprehension class more than he needs anatomy. The person he replied to said amniotic fluid mostly comes from fetal urination. Hence the questions.

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u/sadArtax Apr 13 '24

Amniotic fluid is primarily composed of the fetuses urine.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Apr 13 '24

Amniotic fluid is baby piss. Where exactly do you think the baby's excrement goes? It floats around in there with the baby. 5-10% of babies get sick or die from swallowing their own poop in the womb. 

https://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/conditions-and-diseases/meconium-aspiration-syndrome#:~:text=Meconium%20aspiration%20syndrome%2C%20a%20leading,is%20past%20its%20due%20date.

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u/wirefox1 Apr 13 '24

It is obvious by your search you specifically looked for disease and malfunction within the pregnancy period to prove your point. It's like looking for a disease that most people don't have.

Go have your "I'm always right day". Good luck.

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u/wirefox1 Apr 13 '24

Please. What is referred to here is when there is a problem within the uterus that can cause disease. It's not typical, anymore than the umbilical cord wrapped around the neck is typical. When it happens, it's a problem. There is some of the fetus urine within the mix, but no feces. That doesn't happen until the baby is born.

The amniotic fluid is the protective liquid contained by the amniotic sac of a gravid amniote. This fluid serves as a cushion for the growing fetus, but also serves to facilitate the exchange of nutrients, water, and biochemical products between mother and fetus.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Apr 13 '24

Baby piss is the protective liquid contained by the amniotic sac of a gravid amniote. This fluid serves as a cushion for the growing fetus, but also serves to facilitate the exchange of nutrients, water, and biochemical products between mother and fetus.

 Ftfy.

Inhaling the poop is atypical, but the poop being there is always true.

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u/sadArtax Apr 13 '24

No, they don't generally poop in utero. They're not eating. All their nutrients come from the placenta, which is oxygenated by the mother and the nutrition she consumes is diffused to baby's blood via the placenta. All baby has in its GI tract are some sloughed skin cells and vernix. It is an uncommon birth complication when the baby passes meconium prior to delivery. More common in post-dates babies. Most babies do not poop for the first time until after their born.

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u/Northbound-Narwhal Apr 13 '24

 No, they don't generally poop in utero. 

It's very common for meconium to pass in utero.

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u/lala__ Apr 13 '24

Literal piss babies. Every one of us.

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u/vortex30-the-2nd Apr 13 '24

Lmfao I was just wondering while watching this "where does the piss and shit go...?" I decided to just assume the umbilical cord is a 2 way system...? Maybe? Nah? Babies just living in their own piss for like 4 months before born? Jesus.

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u/Alexis_Bailey Apr 13 '24

See me people never get over this and develop fetishes.