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But life had other plans

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Re: But life had other plans

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Post by KMag »

spoils19 wrote: post #34
schultetwin1 wrote: post #5

This is an amazing story! Classic race condition :)

I don't understand how this is a race condition, but I might need to check my old undergrad textbooks though. Props for the quirkyness, though! :>

A pregnancy doesn't show up on a pregnancy test (a read operation) until after implantation and enough fetal growth to significantly impact the mother's hormone levels. So, there was a write (fertilization) followed by a read (pregnancy test) without any synchronizing operation. The pre-op pregnancy test missed the pregnancy because of the race between the read and the write.

Re: But life had other plans

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Post by rayiner »

pithon wrote: post #26
rayiner wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

God loves babies and wants us to be happy. Risked waking my 8 month old to give him a squeeze.

(1) not all of them, apparently, and (2) it seems arrogant to claim that.

Not the dunk you think it is for the billions of people who believe in a personal god and life everlasting.

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Post by oceanghost »

maz1b wrote: post #15

As a recent medical school graduate and a technical founder of a medical education startup, wow. This is an "edge case" for lack of a better phrase and is the kind of stuff that becomes widespread as lore or an interesting story - at least I'd like to think so. Thanks for sharing your story and I wish you the best with what's next.

IMHO the surest way to get pregnant is to be told by a doctor that you can't.

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Post by NhanH »

adius wrote: post #47

What about injuries to the baby due to medicine, pain killers, or alcohol consumption? Could this be a problem?

Probably no riskier than being born into a poor household or in developing countries etc. Which is to say that you try to control what you can, and learn to live with the rest.

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Post by verifex »

Wife and I had an unlikely pregnancy ourselves. We tried for possibly 8 years with no luck, finally we gave in and started the process to do in vitro with entailed lots of tests and everything. Then, the day before we were scheduled to start the process (during xmas no less) and lay down a lot of $$$ for the procedure, wife takes a pregnancy test and shockingly, it indicates positive. Kid was born healthy and happy. I hesitate to call him some kind of xmas miracle kid, but I mean.. the context and everything really drove the point home. :)
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