Umbilical Vein Puns

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I had my anatomy scan today (21w2d) and my baby has Persistent Right Umbilical Vein. Everything else looked great I was told to not worry but I do have a fetal echocardiogram scheduled for next week and then a growth scan 3 weeks later. The Dr. told me not to freak out and that it is an abnormality but everything else looks great. I have already had NIPT & Sequential screening done as well and she said she does not see the need for further genetic testing.

Just wondering if anyone else is going through this or has gone through it recently.

Thank you!

1. Arteries carry blood away from the heart and veins carry blood to the heart which I think we all know (if not then TIL haha). So blood moving to the baby heart will be moving through veins and blood leaving the baby heart will be leaving through arteries.

2. Think of the umbilical cord, with all its veins and arteries, as belonging to the baby (i.e the veins and arteries of the umbilical cord being the veins and arteries of the baby). This is essential!

3. Now here’s the key. Babies in the womb cannot oxygenate blood for themselves because their lungs don’t work. Therefore, the baby has to get oxygenated blood from Mom through the umbilical cord. The heart, being as important as it is, must receive this oxygenated blood. Now the question is does the oxygenated blood move through umbilical arteries or umbilical veins? Well, since the oxygenated blood is going TO the baby’s heart it must be going through the umbilical veins (because veins carry blood TO the heart). The natural conclusion from there is that the umbilical arteries are carrying deoxygenated blood.

I know this was a bit wordy and not so much a tip as an explanation but this confused me for the longest time so I hope it’s helpful to someone out there!

My doctor let me know that I had 1 vein and 1 artery in the umbilical cord and normally it would have 2 arteries. He didn’t seem alarmed but the fact that he was telling me made me feel alarmed. Has anyone else had this come up and everything was okay?

Also, what's on the other side of the belly button in an adult? Any remnants of the once life-giving connections?

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> In this study, we attempted the direct construction of biomimetic TEBVs composed of compartmentalized endothelial and muscular layers using vascular-tissue-specific bioinks and a reservoir-assisted triple-coaxial cell printing technique.

> III. DISCUSSION. The findings of this study suggested several advantages of the constructed TEBVs for vascular tissue engineering.

> A previous study, in which endothelium-free TEBVs were implanted in rat abdominal models, demonstrated bulk thrombus generation at only 2 weeks postimplantation, emphasizing the importance of endothelium in vascular grafts.

> The coprinted smooth muscle layer of the constructed TEBVs contributed to a major increase in mechanical strength, demonstrating the promise of this technique for developing small-diameter vascular grafts.

> As a result, for the first time, biomimetic TEBVs consisting of a mature endothelium and dense smooth muscles were achieved using the cell-printing technique.

> IV. CONCLUSIONS. In conclusion, we have developed a biomimetic TEBV composed of endothelium and smooth muscles using vascular tissue-specific bionks and an RTCCP technique.

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Hi wonderful ladies- I've just lurked here, only posted on the infertility sub.

In brief- after a miscarriage, 3 IUIs and 4 IVF cycles, we went for donor eggs and had a girl 1.5 years ago. We did a single embryo transfer in the spring and it stuck. I'm now almost 30 weeks along. I was measuring a little small (like last time) so I went for an ultrasound and they found an umbilical vein varix- basically a varicose vein in the umbilical cord. The problem is that it can effect blood flow and cause growth restriction, or even cause a clot leading to stillbirth. The good news is that so far baby looks normal, fluid is normal and she's slightly ahead of schedule growth wise.

We can't have another ultrasound for two weeks. I'm told to watch out for changes in activity patterns but that is going to drive me insane. I asked about blood thinners to reduce the chance of clots but the doc didn't seem to think it was a good idea.

I guess I just have emotional whiplash going from what was a boring pregnancy to one where I could lose the baby. I wish I could go back to the first trimester when no one knew I was pregnant and hide there. But now it's so visible. I can few myself distancing myself from this pregnancy as if it is already a lost cause. But it isn't, and will hurt just as much if it ends.

This type of umbilical cord varix (less scary word that means aneurism) is so rare 1/2300) no one has that much experience with it.

Still I thought I'd reach out to this amazing community. I've enjoyed quietly celebrating and suffering with you all these months- I would love some advice is anyone has any...

We had our 20 week appointment yesterday and found out the baby has a persistent right umbilical vein. We have been scheduled to go in for a consultation at a maternal fetal medicine clinic. Are there any other mothers out there who had this diagnosis? What has been your experience?

I was told today during an ultrasound that I have umbilical vein varix, which amounts to a swollen vein in the umbilical cord.

According to the radiologist I spoke with today, it's a pretty rare issue that even more rarely results in any sort of problem.

Nonetheless, I have two non-stress tests and an ultrasound every week until little dude is born at the end of November.

I'm not overly worried, but the issue seems to be an exceedingly rare one, so finding help info online isn't easy.

Anyone have this, or have a friend/relative who has? Any stories regarding this issue? It sure would make me feel better.

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I was watching Khan academy on blood flow through the placenta. I'm confused though. I know that bloodflow through arteries are led away from the heart and have passed through the lungs so they are rich in oxygen while veins are typically leading away from distal processes from the heart where their oxygen and nutrients have been absorbed.

Why is this man describing the umbilical veins being rich in oxygen and nutrients and the veins being empty...

Is this because the umblical vein is called so because it is from the perspective of the fetus? As in the vein is carrying blood back towards the fetus' heart and the arteries are carrying blood away from the fetus' heart?

I had my 20 week ultrasound yesterday and the u/s revealed that babykins had PRUV. Based on my NT scan being a-ok (1 in 5000+ chance of chromosomal issues) and babe's heart otherwise looking healthy and how it should, my doctor said everything should be fine. I have a fetal echocardiogram scheduled for two weeks from now for further investigation, but was curious in the interim if anyone else had experience with this situation. I don't want to be nervous, since most signs say everything will be normal and fine, but obviously still am. Any feedback or personal experiences would be helpful!

What is soulmate?

It appears everything in life is dual in nature, good and evil, male and female, love and hate, life and death, etc. The universal principle of duality has been in existence, even before the creation of planet earth, our world is not the everlasting world, It can never be.

Amazing as it may sound, our filthy planet has a part to play in the divine scheme of things. It does. A child that is growing up cannot remain at home all the time. The child must go to school to acquire education. Without education the child becomes illiterate.

Illiteracy is not a good option. In the same vein, if a soul continues to remain in the spirit world without coming to planet earth, the soul will never acquire experiences and work out his own salvation. In the spirit world, there is nothing like trials to pass through, and temptations to resist. In contrast, on planet earth, there are lots and lots of trials and temptations to deal with.

Therefore, a soul must temporarily cloth itself in a human body and subject itself to earthly trials in order to acquire experience development and work out its own salvation with fear and trembling.

However, before manifesting on planet earth, the soul must split into two parts, male and female. Countless people are searching for their soulmates. Searching for your soulmate does not mean, for instance, after creating David, God created a female called Clara for him. Such a thing never happened.

Searching for your soulmate simply means, you are searching for the remaining part of your soul. A male is searching for the female aspect of his soul, and a female is searching for the male aspect of her soul.

Problems arising from sexual excesses

Sexual intercourse does not exist in the spirit world. Therefore, the first category of souls that occupied planet earth knew nothing about it. They never knew indulging in sexual excesses will devastate their physical bodies.

The first category of souls that occupied planet earth were truly the best. They were more interested in overcoming the wild beast of the forest and preparing a place to live. They had no time to indulge in sexual excesses. They were more interested in doing the heavy work and clearing the path for the weaker souls that would occupy planet earth after their departure.

Much later, planet earth became populated by countless weak souls, hysterically interested in the glittering things of this world. That was how The morals of the masses became very corrup

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On March 22, my husband and I went in for a routine anatomy scan when I was 18 weeks along. We received the heartbreaking news that our son’s left ventricle in his heart did not develop, and his pulmonary veins were not connected to his heart either. They told us that he would need at least 3 surgeries within his first 2-3 years of life to be able to survive, but the chances of survival with this condition were about 75%. We were gutted with this news but ultimately decided to move forward with the pregnancy and fight alongside our son. Fast forward about 8 weeks, we had another in depth heart echo scan and they discovered another sever complication, he also has TAPVR—which means his pulmonary veins travel around his heart, below the diaphragm, through the liver and back up to the heart, resulting in obstructed pulmonary veins. This complication can cause severe lung damage, but we will not know how damaged they are until after he is born. He is also measuring very small and the drs are concerned about umbilical cord blood flow. With all of these problems, his chance at life is very small. And the life that he will live would require multiple complicated and risky surgeries within his first few years of life, which would mean a lot of time spent in the hospital. The gravity of this diagnosis is weighing very heavily on me as I am preparing to say goodbye to my son soon after he is born.

How do I even begin to prepare for this loss? I still have about 12 weeks left of this pregnancy and this is already all I can think about. I am scared that I will do my best to mentally prepare, but it was fail in comparison to witnessing the loss of my baby. I am scared of how this will change me, my marriage, and my family (I have a 12 month old daughter).

Thank you for reading and any advice would be greatly appreciated. ❤️

On Tuesday, June 22 at 11:30 PM, our daughter was born!

She entered this life in probably one of the calmest unplanned cesarean sections ever. I was induced that morning at about 12 PM. My body took to induction really well. In the first two hours, with the lowest dose of pitocin and a Foley bulb, I dilated 3 centimeters (2 to 5 cm). After that and getting an epidural, we were back to it, but when the pitocin was raised, she didn't tolerate contractions well. My body needed stronger consistent contractions to progress labor and it would have done a great job, but baby was not as cooperative. Around 9 pm we started to see that her heart rate would drop at the peak of each contraction. To give an idea, she would be stable at 135-145 BPM, then slow to 105, then bottom out in the 80s.

We never reached an emergent situation. The hospital I delivered at has one nurse per laboring person. So I was constantly being watched and they knew to be careful and cautious.

I knew going in that a c-section was a very real possibility and that this was likely related to a velamentous cord insertion where the umbilical cord was not protected well and prone to compression issues. While we couldn't be sure this was the issue, it was alarming enough that I very calmly told the charge nurse that I knew this was a possibility and I refuse to let the first medical decision I make for her to put her in unnecessary distress. I wanted the c-section and I didn't want to push my luck.

I will admit I'm lucky that I don't have a strong feeling about vaginal versus c-section. I strongly believe that the best way to have a baby is to HAVE a baby. How they enter this life is not going to change anything. So I don't feel like I missed out on anything by not getting to deliver her myself.

Moving on--the charge nurse essentially TOLD my OB that he needed to come back in at 11 PM to do a C-section. And by then I had already signed the papers and started surgery prep. It really was a very calm transfer to the OR. Not to say I wasn't a little scared but it was the right choice. I am starting to have some anxiety that crops up when I tell her birth story so I think there may be some trauma associated with this whole thing my husband and I went through and I'll need to seek some help to reflect on it.

There were a few setbacks that kept us in the hospital longer than the usual 48 hours for a c-section. First I developed a fever on Wednesday evening. Turns out it was a UTI. I was pissed. T

I'll go first - I was doing a pelvic transabdominally when I accidentally went into the right flank and I noticed an enormous mass, separate from the right ovary and the right kidney and easily over 15cm in all dimensions. Ended up being appendix cancer!!

Feel free to use this post to brag on yourself for particularly good catches too!

SPOILERS AHEAD

This is my personal dissection and theory on a timeline for the events preceding and involving Bloodborne canon. It will involve discussing end-game content and spoilers will come up. Readers beware.

Credentials: I am a nameless hunter. I have naught but my axe and bullets to guide me. Also I've spent hundreds of hours playing the game and researching Bloodborne for a writing project and haven't seen a timeline I wholly agree with, so I'm consolidating with my own input and changes.

This is what I've come up with so far. I don't have proper citations/sources listed but I am working on a Bibliography and will publish/update as often as I am able to open my inner eyes.

Please feel free to point out errors and make suggestions, I would appreciate all feedback!

Thank you for reading, and good hunting.

To begin, I have a few things to say.

I have come to the conclusion that much of what we know and understand about the world of Bloodborne has come from the Healing Church, its records, and the ideas/politics it pushed onto Yharnam. The Healing Church had good reason to de-legitimize and sabotage other large powers, such as the Cainhurst nobles, when they acquired access to the Old Blood. The Cainhurst blood, though it is stolen from the same blood used to found the Healing Church, is "Corrupted Vileblood" to their "Pure Old Blood". They needed this idea to legitimize their power and distinguish them from other, illegitimate powers such as the now immortal Cainhurst Queen Annalise.

The Healing Church also had good reason to believe that the Kin Great One they discovered, Ebrietas, was simply 'left behind' when her brethren ascended, instead of being a false Great One, such as The One Reborn or The Living Failures. I also find the differentiation between Kin Great One, such as Rom, the Vacuous Spider or the Celestial Emissary, and the previous 'failed' Great Ones to be arbitrary. As far as I am concerned, putting aside contradictory game mechanics, Ebrietas and "Kin Great Ones" are in fact failed Great Ones. The Celestial Emissary and Ebrietas are the wretched remnants of blasphemous rituals which left their cohorts, people, and subjects ruined (Reborn/Experiments) or hollowed (Pthumerian Vacuous Spider/Rom the Vacuous Spider). She had to have been left behind to cooperate with and guide them, or they were worshiping nothing in pursuit of empty revelations. I believe that this is what they were doing in reality, as any in

My first post here

My eyes snapped open at the command as if no longer under my own control, as he twisted my head towards the window, giving me a view of what was happening outside.

The sky had seemingly erupted with a brilliant green light, a shade I had never seen before, so bright that for a moment I could make out nothing. As my eyes adjusted, the scene outside became more clear to see but harder to understand.

“Wh-what is,” was all I managed to sputter, before falling into awe-inspired silence as I marveled at the thing tearing through the sky.

My father’s twisted smile gave way to laugher, a burst of terrible, shrieking laughter like metal against the concrete as the object grew nearer bathing the house in a strange, ghostly blue light.

My mind raced to process what I was seeing as if my brain was rejecting the very image, buckling under the burden of maintaining sanity. When my father spoke, his voice was full of venomous glee, and his words echoed in my mind until clicking, and I realized just what I was seeing.

“It was never a meteor,” he began, and as if in response, the object slammed into the ground with such force that it threw a wall of dirt and debris thirty feet high, and came skidding to a stop in a familiar area.

The clearing that had served as our family gravesite.

My knees buckled, and a wave of sudden nausea struck that would have brought me to my knees if not for the iron grip on my neck. My head began to throb as realization struck like waves crashing against shore during a storm, and as the dots began to connect, the words my father had repeated so often in his life echoed in my head.

“Fear the land and what lies beneath.” I breathed.

My "father's" eyes, empty and gray, snapped back from the window and onto me. His smile was gone, replaced in an instant by something unreadable. His hand fell away from my neck, leaving me to collapse onto the floor in a gasping heap.

He remained motionless and under the glow of the eerie light from the fallen object, his face, though warped and fractured by rot, showed familiar signs of recognition, as though my words had reached something deeper in him.

“She came to me in my nightmares.” his voice pierced the silence, and a shiver gripped ran down my spine, as I sat in a pathetic heap.

His tone was different than before, losing some of the threatening edge it had carried, and though

Go post NSFW jokes somewhere else. If I can't tell my kids this joke, then it is not a DAD JOKE.

If you feel it's appropriate to share NSFW jokes with your kids, that's on you. But a real, true dad joke should work for anyone's kid.

Mods... If you exist... Please, stop this madness. Rule #6 should simply not allow NSFW or (wtf) NSFL tags. Also, remember that MINORS browse this subreddit too? Why put that in rule #6, then allow NSFW???

Please consider changing rule #6. I love this sub, but the recent influx of NSFW tagged posts that get all the upvotes, just seem wrong when there are good solid DAD jokes being overlooked because of them.

Thank you,

A Dad.

During my pregnancy, my favorite part of this subreddit was the graduation stories, so I thought I’d pay it forward and share my own. Our little girl was born last Saturday, March 20 at 41 weeks 1 day and is absolute perfection despite a stressful last couple of days in the womb.

Several weeks prior, my induction had been scheduled for Friday, March 19 (if she did not come on her own sooner). The day before, I went in for my regularly scheduled appointment and saw the sweetest midwife (I’ve rotated through all of the midwives in the practice) who told me she was on duty in L&D the next night and would likely be delivering my baby. I was told that the hospital would call between 7-11 the next morning and would let me know what time to come in. Naturally, I could barely sleep a wink that night.

The next morning I got up early and waited anxiously for the phone to ring. FINALLY around 9:30 a different midwife called, but instead of telling me to come to the hospital, she explained that L&D was full and my induction would be rescheduled for Sunday. Since I was going over 41 weeks, I would need to instead go into the clinic and have a non-stress test and amniotic fluid index done to make sure the baby was still okay. I felt like I’d been punched in the gut and was too stunned to ask any questions. It was only another 2 days, but that felt like a lifetime at 41 weeks pregnant - especially when I’d had my mind set on being induced on the 19th for weeks. I laid in bed and cried all morning until it was time for my NST/AFI appointments.

Both appointments went well (although my husband “jokingly” tried to convince them to lie and say something was wrong so that they’d induce me immediately). However, both the nurse and ultrasound tech I saw were shocked that they would reschedule my induction and clearly felt really sorry for me. Although I saw them separately, they both whispered to me that I should keep calling L&D and beg to be seen sooner.

I decided to wait to call back until night shift took over and the sweet midwife I’d seen the day before was on duty. When she answered, she said how sad she’d been to find out what happened and that she had already been working on trying to squeeze me in. A few minutes later, she called me back and told me she had worked it out and to come on in! I can’t even describe how elated and relieved we were!

When we got to the hospital, it was about 9:30 pm. I was already nearly 3 cm dilated so they started me

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for a dream to exist some one need to have a dream. also you need to have blood of great one in your vein ( yharnam blood ). blood practice is dated way back in the culture of inhabitant of blood borne peoples.

HUNTERS DREAM { This is the only dream that called dream in blood borne rest is nightmare} : now the main question who is having this dream. its the doll. many people disagree on this. mostly their defense is moon presence is revived her or some thing. now these are my arguments in favor of the doll being a host.

when you enter the workshop in DREAM YHARNAM. You get the trophy SOURCE OF THE DREAM. only odd think is the position of the doll in workshop like she is sleeping.Also when you hit her in the hunters dream. her blood is pale white (also there is joke in community the gehrman done with her some thing) . the real doll (in real world) should have injected with pure blood. she is object. that look like human.she is dead and alive at the same time. also if you think doll is not alive or some think this is dream world also rituals exist in blood borne. also lady maria grave is disturbed.this dream is forever running work shop with best hunter running it.gherman cannot see the doll walking talking like us. when you first enter hunters dream doll is there like a object. but you can see gherman he is really alone in this dream. as for gherman dialogue "you can even use the doll". doll exist in dream yharnam while dreaming.exist in hunter dream. may or may not exist in real world depend on the time and nature of the ritual performed. also when you defeated gherman moon presence will replace you.because you are now the best.

HUNTERS NIGHTMARE

now whose dream is this??? this is ghermans nightmare. for evidence when you kill orphan of kos gherman will sleep peace fully in hunters dream (doll will give you the dialogue that gherman is sleeping peace fully) . you can say this dream is pretty much a curse and well deserved. gherman cannot be seen in dreaming world. its the only place you can see lady maria in ghermans nightmare.also you can see which position she died. also after killing lady maria in nightmare .doll will give you that dialogue "good hunter. this may have sound strange but .... have i changed? moments ago from some place deep within. i sensed a liberation from heavy shackles.not that i would know how passing strange. grave of lady maria was disturbed. bones are used in rituals in blood borne. you have to enter the nightmare with

Well, toucan play at that game.

34F, 165cm, 140lbs, austrian/filipina (born june 1986 in austria- in the womb during the chernobyl disaster, right hand suffered birth defect from umbilical cord wrapping around neck, and my hand going in between and not developing correctly presumably, but surgery has made it possible for me to be capable of almost everything) living near toronto canada since i was 6...

primary complaint : trying to figure out whats happening to my body and why. and how to stop it....

past medical history : chronic bronchitis, menstrual cramps and nerve pain in my back maybe once a year, for the last 3-4yrs - had MRI recently- but waiting to get another one as it is not sciatica, and they need more info. i haven't had alcohol in over 2 months, i smoke cannabis daily, no drugs. i take 1 75mg lyrica daily currently for neuralgia- burning sensations in hands and feet as well as back pain. in february i had general check up and bloodtests and urine test and the only thing the doctor noted was my bloodsugar was below 5- other than that nothing came up everything was normal and nothing to be concerned about .

about 8 weeks ago, i had some of the worst menstral cramps i have EVER had, i fainted, 10/10 pain and then went into a state of overheating and sweat for about 2 hours until ibuprofen (800mg) finally kicked in after falling asleep....i regularly have cramps but not like that, usually 7/10 at worst in pain. then about 5 days later getting about of shower i fell and my back was throbbing in pain- severe nevre back pain, wasn't like an injury because i did not do anything strenuous, it started in shower and by evening i couldnt move, sitting and laying down were not an option. it was around the hips and left leg especially when i put weight on it, numbess slightly in tailbone area, and tingly in leg sometimes, weakness in muscles only from being exhausted, no loss of bladder or bowel movements, nothing really changed there except constipation from medication i rectified with extra fiber in diet. was not able to sleep. I am cold all the time even still currently. and that persisted at about an 8-10/10 pain for about 2-3 weeks, i had tylenol 3 which didnt work and then changed to hydromorphone for sleeping because the pain was too bad to handle at that point i wasn't sleeping at all (that was about 10 days total) and was at a 10-12/10 pain during the 2-3rd week of the 3 weeks. once the pain was manageable i stopped all pain reducers and switched back to advil o

Martin Freeman, and Andy Serkis.

They also play roles in Lord of the Rings.

I guess that makes them the Tolkien white guys.

Phil