Anal childbirth - real or not?

Hate to break this to you but…no bones between the vagina and the rectum.

And here I sit all out of brain bleach…

Ectopic pregnancies in the abdominal cavity can go full term. But of course there is normally no way for the baby to get out through the anus. There have been at least two cases of such babies being delivered alive (presumably through a surgical incision). Both babies died shortly after birth.

Then there’s the caseof a woman who had a fetal skeleton inside her abdomen for 37 years.

I know, no jokes, but would that explain my sh*t-eatin’ grin? Seriously, I think the bacterial tear would be major news/worries, and that daily “movements” would hamper the ability of the fetus to adhere to/grow inside the “anal area”. Chemical/biological/and simple physical circumstances would seem to indicate that any successful pregnancy/birth this way was fanciful.

:eek:

I’m really sorry that I don’t have anything to add to this discussion, but it looks like I’m NEVER getting pregnant.

Is it possible that you are thinking of the following intance?

Pregnant lady is in labor, has the unignorable need to go to the bathroom (#2) and when she pushes to release said dookie, she actually pushes the baby out of her hoo-hoo?***

I am not 100% sure if this is fact or urban legend but I have heard the story of babies born into toilets.

[sub]***disclaimer: terms used in scenario are NOT actaully clinical terms :)[/sub]

You must remember this,
You’re born twix shit and piss.

Now I’ll have that song in my head all day.

Little too late for me shudders I don’t think I should read these threads anymore

Obstetric fistulas do occur, where a breach in the wall that separates the vagina and the anus causes that wall to collapse. The result isn’t necessarily a child born via the anus instead of the vagina, but an unexperienced person might believe that was what they were seeing.

Afterwards, the woman is severely medically impaired. It is not a joking matter.

However, before anyone freaks out, it should be known that in this era, obstetric fistulas are so rare in the developed world that any woman who experienced one would become the subject of intense medical scrutiny.

They are, unfortunately, more common in “third” world countries. There is a hospital dedicated solely to treating women who have experienced this awful condition and helping them get their lives back. (If you’ve got a few pennies to spare, this is definitely a worthy cause.)

From a Sing store bathrom stall, on HWY-27 in Tallahassee, FL

Here I sit
Just a shittian,
givin birth
to Another Floridian.

Carry on.

as I recall, the NY times ran an article last year which upset me grealty.
Apparently obstetric fistulae are very common in the third world and the Bush administration had decided to cut funding to hospitals devoted to remedying this problem.
With obstetric fistulae, women become incontinent post childbirth. The article contained graphic detail on how these women had to wrap themselves in towels, or strap containers onto themselves to retain waste.

In many cases they were immediately divorced by their husbands.

It was one of the most upsetting articles I have ever read. No joke.

It’s the only logical explaination for Kenny G

This is slipping OT and it’s hardly an example from the contemporary literature, but Pierre Boaistuau’s Histoires Prodigieuses from 1560 reports a case where a woman had a baby die during childbirth without being delivered. Despite the risks of the procedure, after five years of effectively being pregnant at full term she insisted on surgery to remove the fetus. She lived to have further children.

You’ve put ‘logical’ and ‘Kenny G’ in the one sentence.

I reckon that is a candidate for GoogleWhacking.

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