Astraea:
Intestines have nothing to do with the umbilical cord. They aren’t even connected. The umbilical cord is part of the circulatory system which carries blood to the heart and you most certainly do not want that hooked up to your bowels!
Babies are born with sterile guts. They only gain intestinal flora from ingesting bacteria once they start bottle /breast feeding. Hence why they get a Vit K shot immediately (gut bacteria normally make Vit K)
Actually, mommy poops on them as they leave - that is where their initial gut flora (or is it fauna) load originates.
and nobody WANTS to know why…
Leaffan
November 29, 2014, 5:00am
42
Ambivalid:
The tide comes in, the tide goes out, and nobody knows why!
Well at least Bill O’Reilly doesn’t know why.
Is there a news story behind this?
O’Reilly likes to forget about it. But the Internet will always remember.
Origin
On the January 4th, 2011[8] episode of The O’Reilly Factor, Bill O’Reilly[10] interviewed American Atheists[7] president Dave Silverman about a billboard[9] the company had put up arguing that religion was a scam. When Silverman asked for proof of a god’s existence, O’Reilly argued that he knew because the tide comes in and out regularly without fail, and it could not be explained without divine intervention. Silverman’s facial expression after this statement was the inspiration for the Are You Serious? rage face.
Cicero
December 2, 2014, 8:50pm
44
If you hit your head really hard against a brick wall it hurts. And nobody knows why.
It’s a little-known fact but every sixteenth thread in the red fabric that makes up the 1st, 5th, 9th and 13th stripe of the flag that Betsy Ross sewed are actually made of polyester. And nobody knows why.
Why is it you can pick your friends and you can pick your nose but you can’t pick your friend’s nose?
**Count **- that came up in post #21 … and nobody knows why!!!
Yllaria
December 3, 2014, 2:16am
48
Not necessarily literally, but the area is not sterile. Babies who are born by caesarian section get their guts colonized with skin bacteria first. There is ongoing speculation on whether this is a good or a bad thing.
No matter how careful I am keeping Christmas lists, I always find something the next week that hadn’t been sent - - and nobody knows why.