Pregnancy is Insane

Watch out, Kurzgesagt is going to explain where babies come from, in graphic cellular detail. It ain't easy. An embryo does whatever is necessary to establish dominance over the mother's body. It suppresses her immune system, lest it attack the foreign body. It floods her body with weird hormones that change her body and cells she will carry for the rest of her life. An established fetus will take all the resources it needs from the mother, leaving her body lacking, so she must scramble to keep herself going nutritionally. In that, it is like a parasite or a tumor that will drain and possibly kill its host in order to survive. Yet the prize at the end of it all can make it worth the effort. In the last few years, I've had a front row seat to two pregnancies in my own daughter, and can attest to how hard it is to see your baby girl go through the utter havoc a normal pregnancy put her body through. Yet she happily repeated the process. This video is only 10:40; the rest is promotional.