Avenio wrote:Euronion wrote:no there are hormones that dictate the skin to stretch,
Nope, skin is elastic normally. No hormones required. If you pull on the skin on your hand right now, it'll stretch all on its own.Euronion wrote:there are hormones that screen out harmful chemicals to the baby,
Sorry, that's active/passive transport, not hormones. It's rather more like a static filter than a screening process.Euronion wrote:there are hormones for every function of the body, including hunger, and thirst
Ehh, kindasorta. It's way more complicated than that.DaWoad wrote:not sure that's true. Didn't phalidomide do the damamge it did because it changed around the hormones essential to development in the fetus?
I was more referring to the mother's own hormones, but yeah, I think that's right.DaWoad wrote:Some other developmental disorders are also hormonally based IIRC (cretinism, the lack of iodine leading to insufficient thyroid hormones)
As far as I remember, I think most congenital hypothyroidic conditions are genetic in nature. I could be wrong.DaWoad wrote:that said, artificial hormones and problem solved.
Heh, if males really want to go for the full experience, we can even give them the full hormonal swings associated, too.DaWoad wrote:and, this. In fact there are a couple of cases where fetuses have grown to near-viability and, I think, even been delivered having grown on an abdominal wall/wall of the intestines in a woman.
Yep. Even a set of twins was born from an ectopic pregnancy successfully.
thanks avenio you've once again proven that you're more on the ball than me *nods*.