To complain that the reproductive organs have a stupid design

[Maomee]

Just a rant, really.
I hate everything about my reproductive organs, they've given me nothing but grief. Painful periods for years and after putting up with what I was told was 'normal' I'm now looking at infertility as it transpires I have likely had endometriosis all this time. Now I despair and worry but more than that I feel ANNOYED.
I don't believe in an God or anything so I know I'm effectively shouting at the randomness of evolution/into the void but I need to get it off my chest.
WHAT EVEN ARE THE FALLOPIAN TUBES, SERIOUSLY? If they can be so easily damaged by inflammation and rendered useless WHY DEVELOP THEM. Just seems such a pointlessly complicated system for what is basically a very fundamental biological process.
Once I have children, if I ever do, I'm going to have a hysterectomy and if they let me keep my uterus this is what I'm going to do with it:

Giving birth is even more of a fundamental flaw in biology….bloody nature should have given us a pouch (Kankaroos seem to have it so much easier) or a zip!
Can’t watch the vid. But you’re right it’s shite being female, female spiders are much better equipped for life!

Blame becoming bipedal. Would be so much easier if we had remained quadrupeds.

Agree totally. It's a real pity we are not marsupial as smallgreen said, but in the absence of that, a zip would have been useful -to get babies out easily and also to fix anything that's wrong.

And bleeding all the time (well not all the time but for several days a month for many decades) is a ridiculous thing. We can control when we go to the loo so why not that!

@smallgreenandsplitthreeways “female spiders are much better equipped for life” and many get to eat the male after mating. Very satisfactory outcome imho.
Funnily, I was having a similar conversation a few minutes ago about the design flaw of human teeth, and how having teeth that replaced themselves like rodents or sharks would be a great improvement on the current situation.

Oh yes.

ohhhhh yes.

Agree, massively over-complicated!

How is not one raising an eyebrow when most movies and real life expectations have to show women give birth screaming in agony?

What other procedure would we even consider while letting the patient screaming for hours in pain?

So not only the design is shit and flawed to start with, but how are we so casual about it?

Was just discussing this with my partner the other day! Who TF came up with our reproductive system, lol, were they having a laugh,..?!

Honestly if it turns out someone actually did design it I want a word with them 😂

I voted YABU because the reproductive system doesn’t have a stupid design. Billions and more people have managed just fine with the ‘design’ of it. Obviously like everything ever invented it doesn’t always work unfortunately. Although yanbu to hate everything about your own reproductive organs if they are not working as they should.

We did invent a perfectly brilliant thing to help there - epidural. But it’s often bafflingly rejected (and the NHS work against it on the grounds of cost).

it's not even considered in Birth Centres because they are mid-wives run, and anything else need to be transferred to the nearest maternity unit!

We have created places where a woman is physically unable to access pain relief.

And someone should improve on the peridural too, it needs an updated upgrade 😂

It's what completely convinces me that God doesn't exist. No one would be stupid enough to purposefully design periods and reproductive organs this way. Same goes for bowels and shitting for that matter.

How hard would it be to replace shitting with odorless and invisible clouds!

How do you feel that epidurals could be ‘updated or upgraded’?

I like the idea of laying 🥚🥚🥚 and then being able to brood them or leave it to the father.

So civilised.

are you asking at God Level
or at a realistic medical level 😂

Because strongly encouraging women to give birth in midwives centres, where epidural is not an option, and waiting to transfer them to a suitable facility where more often than not they are told' "it's too late"
I am sure something could be improved there.

The biology is fine. The problem is the medical profession that is allowed to ignore symptoms and completely fail to do their job without any consequence.

Have you heard a hen laying an egg? Cluck cluck cluckcluck cluckckuetedkycluckcluck SQUAWWWWWWWWWWWWKKKKKKKKKKKKK and all the other hens cheer.

I've often wondered why we have to take tablets or have ops or use protection to STOP us getting pregnant, it's a shame it wasn't the other way around and if we WANTED a baby we could then take the tablets to help us get pregnant instead . This would prevent a lot of unwanted pregnancies...
Whoever designed us didn't think of that 🤣

I can't imagine an egg big enough to hold a human baby

Have you seen the size of a giant Panda and the size of a newborn Panda?
We've been conned somewhere. Babies are just as useless when they're freshly popped anyway.

Who also thought it was a good idea to place the playroom next to the sewage works?

Yanbu. Birth is ridiculous too (hoping that your pelvis is big enough for the baby’s head to navigate uhhhh that is something of a design flaw)….

ah....thought you meant epidurals themselves.

Women do get told that epidurals aren't possible when they chose that option though. We don't get many transferring in to LW for an epidural though from experience. If a woman thinks it's something they might want the LW or an in-hospital BC is probably a better starting point than a BC out in the sticks. For the women that arrive on LW too late for an epidural it can be worth exploring whether reminfentanil's an option (LW only, and not available everywhere yet) - it can be really useful in that scenario.

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