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Re: But life had other plans

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Post by bigDinosaur »

gordon_freeman wrote: post #11

Wow I am not too religious a person but after reading this I have to say...when God (or some higher force) is with you, miracles likes this can happen.

It sounds like you are comparatively very religious compared to me. Rare events happen with a certain probability. What happened here was not impossible by any known law of biology or physics or whatever.

Re: But life had other plans

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Post by psiops »

Amazing story, and I wish OP and his family all the best! I wonder what the effects of ovary removal will be on the embryonic development. I can imagine the ovaries produce hormones that affect the embryos development. Or is the embryo effectively hormonally isolated by the placenta?

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Post by acid_dog »

throwawaysie wrote: post #90

Sorry for a small hijack. We have been trying a kid for a few years, doing IVF etc. with no luck so far. An endless source of irritation to me is a complete inability of the doctors to show any kind of probability distributions for the process. So, I'd like to find data that answers questions like how many embryos are alive after n days on average and on 10th percentile etc. Does anyone know a decent data source for…

I don't have a great data source, but from my experience (as a woman that tried to conceive two kids), reddit has awesome communities with users that can absolutely dig out those stats for you, if they exist: r/TryingForABaby, r/infertility

Re: But life had other plans

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Post by stavros »

exikyut wrote: post #92
landmark3 wrote: post #84

I have an urgent deadline to release some crazy python code and here I am, instead, cutting onions. Beautiful way to start a day, happy life to you and your family <3

I'll bite :) what's the python code for?

Oh it automates the cutting of onions.

Re: But life had other plans

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Post by Aeolun »

I was so worried this would be another one of those sad articles that I just cannot help but read to the end.

But then everything took a turn for the better :D

Re: But life had other plans

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Post by shrikant »

SamBam wrote: post #13
schultetwin1 wrote: post #5

This is an amazing story! Classic race condition :)

Those race conditions are always tricky to reproduce.

I hope 'brailsafe (whose jokey (and IMHO, low-effort) comment was heavily downvoted then flagged into oblivion) takes note -- this is a good example of a funny that this community appreciates.

Re: But life had other plans

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Post by floodyberry- »

rayiner wrote: post #23
gordon_freeman wrote: post #11

Wow I am not too religious a person but after reading this I have to say...when God (or some higher force) is with you, miracles likes this can happen.

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

For something that supposedly loves babies, "god" sure enjoys spontaneously aborting them

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/372193v1

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