Thinking about medicine, and (though there is a long way to go,) we have come a very long way. For instance, we are all mothers on this app, but would we have survived pregnancy, labor, delivery, postpartum, say... 100 years ago? Or even, would you have had children without modern medicine? Would your children be alive and healthy today without it...? I'm going to stop, lol, there's a deep dark hole to fall down thinking about all this.
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Modern medicine and easy access to disinfectants!
@dr.grey @jays.mom. @momx4 @ladyfreyja @supermomof4 it's all scary to think about.
My oldest being type 1 diabetic I know he wouldn’t be alive if not for modern medicine. And he also got stuck during birth so I was cut and forceps had to be used.
Diabetes is so scary. Even with all the things that can be done for it now, it's still one of those health conditions that can make so many things go wrong, smh. I'm so happy that he is around in this day and age, so he has a chance ❤️
I had retained placenta with my first. I lost enough blood where I was anemic and I don’t remember much for the first 12 or so hour of his life. The doctor eventually got it all out of me but I’m not sure how I would have faired 100 years ago.
It was pretty scary.
Some women have retained placenta for months 😵💫 before anyone realizes. They just don't stop bleeding, and then a doctor double checks and finds retained placenta.
Actually think about this often. I probably would have survived my first childbirth with my first I don't know about the twins cuz my one twin was sideways, so I had to have a C-section
I probably would’ve died with my first child, he was an emergency csection.
Medical history is fascinatingly morbid. I was just reading up on the human head transplant and thought to myself. Dear god, who would volunteer next for this procedure? How does one attach the spine back and therefore the patient recovers with full functioning body? Those animals that are tested for these medical procedures prior to humans? So sad.
I saw a two-headed dog photos (performed by Vladimir Petrovich Demikhov) from the 50s. Surreal. Transplanted a dog’s head onto another dog just seems maddening.
WARNING: If you google it then prepare to have a stomach for it first. It was sad.
But there were many more surgeries in history that will interest you yet make you wonder. Are these medical marvels or mad people creating mutants?
@icebergahead But these "patients" didn't survive, right? I read about one where they transplanted a uterus into a man, but he died shortly after due to complications from the surgery. With the head transplant and things of the sort... I think we as humans think too highly of ourselves. We think we're too smart, and I wonder if we think we can outsmart our bodies. It's a wild ride, and I'm excited to see what happens in the next 10 or so years.
@mujerstillregal, The dog head transplant lived only for around 3 weeks. The procedure was done with at least 22 dogs. Lots of dead dogs.
I had all C-sections so I probably would not have survived childbirth.
Honestly idk about with birth but I think about last summer when my daughter had an infection on her thumb that started to streak up her arm sooooo fast. She had to have a procedure for that and stay at the hospital overnight. I disinfected my whole house for 2 months straight. Im so thankful for modern medicine.