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Feb 18, 2010 12:41

... With instructions followed correctly, pregnancy tests are 97% - 99& accurate. And yet I have recently accrued three false negatives. ... I have never truly put much stock in the idea of "the mind knows"- but I believe it now to be true ( Read more... )

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[voice] fledglingofkyou February 19 2010, 11:39:54 UTC

"Pregnancy"?

[voice] sciencedaughter February 19 2010, 19:39:00 UTC

Yes.

[voice] fledglingofkyou February 19 2010, 19:52:10 UTC

What... does that mean?

[voice] sciencedaughter February 19 2010, 20:34:23 UTC

... What does pregnancy mean?

[voice] fledglingofkyou February 19 2010, 20:46:50 UTC

Yes, that's the question.

[voice] sciencedaughter February 19 2010, 20:48:31 UTC

... "Expecting"? "Soon to be Mother"? Does that sound more familiar?

[voice] fledglingofkyou February 19 2010, 20:53:39 UTC

Ah, yes, it does. Thank you.

But why would you need a test for that?

(OOC: Sooob, 12K reproduction.)

[voice] sciencedaughter February 19 2010, 20:55:39 UTC

The test can ascertain whether the body is indeed carrying a child.

[ooc; lol i no rite]

[voice] fledglingofkyou February 19 2010, 20:57:51 UTC

[Pause. Loooong pause.]

The body?

[voice] sciencedaughter February 19 2010, 21:02:14 UTC

[equally long pause]

Do the people of your world reproduce through alternate means? The female carries the fetus for approximately nine months before giving birth.

[voice] fledglingofkyou February 19 2010, 21:06:52 UTC

[brb mind is reeling here]

But... I mean, there are rumors, about Hourai... but I never gave much thought to them.

Where I come from, there are riboku - life-bearing trees. A couple prays for a baby, and if the Heavenly King deems them as worthy of being parents, an egg-fruit starts growing on the riboku. It ripens over the course of about nine or ten months.

[voice] sciencedaughter February 19 2010, 21:08:13 UTC

I believe many women would be intensely jealous of this method of conception.

[voice] fledglingofkyou February 19 2010, 21:11:44 UTC

It certainly sounds like it! I mean, how is that even physically possible? You can't really... have a riboku in your belly... or something.

[voice] sciencedaughter February 19 2010, 21:20:07 UTC

One has the womb.

[voice] fledglingofkyou February 19 2010, 21:32:55 UTC

So is that more... like an eggfruit?

[voice] sciencedaughter February 19 2010, 22:08:43 UTC

If you consider that what holds the fetus as it matures.

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