Maybe this is a naive question...but I was wondering.
People say to expecting parents, it'll decide when it's ready to be born... but does it?
Is there something in the baby itself that cues the birth process, or is it the woman's bady that says, "enough of THIS".
If you think about a chicken in the egg, the SHELL doesn't say "crack me now". It's somrthing in the chick that says it's time to start cracking.
So what about human (and mammal) births? The female body, or the baby?
2007-03-09 00:52:09 · 4 answers · asked by Mc K 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
The female body is responsible for the birth.
It produces hormones which start the convulsions. When the concentration is high enough, the baby gets pushed out of the uterus.
Some years ago therew was a scandal about some docs somwhere in Europe who had injected women with those hormones so the concentration will get very quickly high enough, the birth will be done with on friday afternoon and the docs won't have to work extra hours on friday night.
The notion about the moon is not that far off, because the female hormone cycle is more or less influenced by the moon phase, but for women living in modern cities that influence is not as strong as for women living in the country (at least that's what I read in some magazine for popular science).
2007-03-09 01:09:28 · answer #1 · answered by Rumtscho 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Some will say that the moon phases effect the time a woman will go into labor. Some say more babies are born close to a full moon than any other time of a month. It makes sense, the body is mostly water, and the moon controls the tides.
2007-03-09 08:57:20 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have to say that i think its up to the mothers body when the time will come, its the moms body that is changing every day to get ready for the birth. the baby is simply sleeping and growing that's it's job. because in the end its the body that bushes the baby out, the baby doesn't make its way out like the chicken.(of the shell)
2007-03-09 09:00:58 · answer #3 · answered by Lara <:(((>< 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Studies on mice have shown that a protein released from the lungs of a developing mouse fetus initiates a cascade of chemical events leading to the mother's initiation of labor.
2007-03-09 09:00:20 · answer #4 · answered by Bio Instructor 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋