March 10, 2004

• my first thought of it's amazing potential is.....good...let's transplant it into the men...they can experience the wonders of carrying and sending forth new life! guess that's a tad vindictive though. if this will help those people who now suffer through such as in vitro, it is a glorious thing indeed. time will tell.
• Some men might wish it dxlifer partners or now married couples who want offspring seems a tad harsh to make men share the work of carrying the baby after all they did help incept it which surely counts for fifty percent of the work heh
• I never thought of it that way, dxlifer. But I doubt it would work, because the way I imagine it is that the ovarian tissue can't produce eggs unless it's still receiving female hormones via the bloodstream. We could also dose the guys up with estrogen and, but they might not like the side effects. On the plus side, though, they could breastfeed too!
• Metafilter's take on the subject. I'm totally monopolising the thread, but it's interesting to see the different direction the Mefites have taken with the topic.
• This story from the metafilter thread is very interesting too. For more than half a century, the medical textbooks have said that women are born with a fixed number of eggs, and the supply eventually runs out in middle age. But new research on mice suggests that may not be the case after all.
• From my own experience, I'm not sure that having babies later is an entirely good thing. As much as I doted on my daughter, who was born when I was in my almost thirties, there came a time when I lost interest in playing kid games, which I'd always done with great joy before. And, those kid games give kids a lot of formative skills. It was like a biological switch being turned off. If I'd had other children who could have taken over the game playing, it might have been ok, but I don't think it was beneficial for her, being an only child. I shudder to think of how I would affect a child given birth in my sixties.
• i agree with you, path, although from somewhat different experiences. in my day, everyone but myself, got married to their high-school sweet-heart within six months of graduation. i was the only graduating female who went on to university, and was considered weird. thewn when i took off to be a OMGhippie for a few years i completed missed the 'traditional' child-bearing years. when i did somehow do the deed in my mid-twenties, no matter how wonderful the maternal afterglow, i chafed because i couldn't get on with the things i wanted to do. i was quite focussed on providing a stimulating and well rounded environment for my daughter for five years and was so glad to see her get on the schoolbus that first day.....proud of her and a bit of glee for me at the prospect of half a day to myself. and i often thought to myself "if i'd only gotten this accomplished earlier in life, like everyone else..... the question is, how much is one prepared to compromise their own needs to the child's? if there is no compromise, then there is no real winner. children lose the hands-on parenting that is so essential for their development. the parents have non-rewarding children and wonder why. and in vitro scares me as well. i have met many young adults now who were rescued from extreme premature birth and low birth weight and one in vitro and all one hears of from other people....these children always seem....disturbed?...that's the best word i can come up with. what if these people's extreme needs to have a baby means we are leading to a new generation of pyshco/socio problems to be dealt with? reality is the only longitudinal study being done on this new science of survival and creation. my daughter's turning 30 this year and we're just finally starting to get along without all the past baggage..... children are strange critters....no wonder i like dogs!
• bad spelling...my apologies...time to pack it in.