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To think gestation outside the body is a fab idea

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Allotmentblackfly · 23/06/2025 18:47

Recent research makes the possibility of gestating a baby outside a woman’s body possible. Do we think this is a good idea or not?

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MaJoady · 23/06/2025 19:25

There is so much about the subconscious nature of pregnancy and birth that we don't understand, particularly around hormones, phycology and attachment that I can't help but think this is a horrendous idea

Shedmistress · 23/06/2025 19:23

Jesus fucking christ.

TheKeatingFive · 23/06/2025 19:22

Absolutely dystopian

MsCactus · 23/06/2025 19:21

This would be great for premature babies

TomatoSandwiches · 23/06/2025 19:19

Men and patriarchal society would rather spend on this than just simply give long standing healthy and economical benefits to adult human women.

Life is a fucking joke.

Treeleaf11 · 23/06/2025 19:12

It is impossible and always will be.

I wonder about OPs motives in suggesting it might happen.

LizaRadleywasonthespectrum · 23/06/2025 19:11

Brave New World? Why not go the whole hog.

DeSoleil · 23/06/2025 19:09

Horrific.

CeliaInside · 23/06/2025 19:09

Research makes the possibility possible?

Notyomama · 23/06/2025 19:08

Men really really need to do something about their envy of women.

FloraBotticelli · 23/06/2025 19:08

FortyElephants · 23/06/2025 18:56

Prenatal attachment is important to babies. This would lead to children with serious emotional development issues.

This.

ChoccieCornflake · 23/06/2025 19:07

Anyone got a link to this recent research?

Anzena · 23/06/2025 19:07

Was this proposed by transwomen?

Tiredofwhataboutery · 23/06/2025 19:05

I read a sci fi book once , the premise was the planet was underpopulated and at war so they started growing genetically modified babies in pods, so they whizz through childhood to become soldiers. The first generations all turned out as psychopathic murderers as they had grown them in a research facility where they had been in pods and grown in a dark, silent void.

Later generations were exposed to light and sound and had to hunt down the crazy ones.

It does make me wonder how what you are exposed to in the womb effects brain development. For example babies like to sleep on chests as the sound of their mothers heartbeat is a comfort, they know her voice, her smell. Do you replace that with a rythmic whoosh and play sounds of the genetic parents?

myplace · 23/06/2025 19:04

I’ve begun to see this as an attempt not to relieve women of physical suffering, but to sideline women from the business of babies. Trying to get around women’s gatekeeping of baby making.

LornaSaysYes · 23/06/2025 19:01

Great for premature babies, otherwise incredibly dystopian.
Maybe we should all just outsource everything that makes us human and plug ourselves into Matrix pods, or those euthanasia pods for that matter- why stretch it out?

SilenceInside · 23/06/2025 19:00

I doubt it. And it's a very bad idea.

Hoardasurass · 23/06/2025 19:00

@Allotmentblackfly have you any idea of the risks and harms caused to women going through egg retrieval.
This is a terrible idea and should be banned in the same way cloning a human is

MsNevermore · 23/06/2025 19:00

I joked about it in all of my pregnancies - I have horrible pregnancies but a really easy time giving birth…..I used to joke that I’d happily pop out a newborn-sized egg at the beginning and incubate it like a chicken.

But the idea of artificial wombs etc actually becoming reality all seems a bit too “mad scientist” for my liking. Also seems like an ethical minefield too….so it’s a no from me.

Pinkrosesyellowroses · 23/06/2025 19:00

Sounds like the world of The Pod Generation movie just got a step closer to reality.

RobinHeartella · 23/06/2025 18:59

Instead of being used to the sound of their mothers' heartbeat and tummy gurgles, and voice, they'll be used to the sound of beeping machines.

Both of mine, as babies, loved leaning their head on my tummy. Babies love the tummy gurgle sound because they're so used to it.

Or instead of beeping machines, will they play political slogans to the unborn babies? Brave New World should be compulsory reading...

Throughahedgebackwards · 23/06/2025 18:58

Horrific idea.

FortyElephants · 23/06/2025 18:56

Prenatal attachment is important to babies. This would lead to children with serious emotional development issues.

ExitPursuedByABare · 23/06/2025 18:55

How lovely. They can be grown in a laboratory.

🙄

Hedonism · 23/06/2025 18:54

Poor babies 😥