I thought pregnant women's smell would get hypersensitive as a form of defense mechanism keeping them from eating spoiled or poisonous food, because this could damage the baby.
I also think that it works as a defense mechanism, in order to detect all sorts of things, including predators (back in the early days of humans), not just for spoiled foods. (just my thoughts)
I swear mothers also get temperature resistant skin after having a child, my mum has taken something out of the oven like it was nothing and when i go to do the same thing i suffer freakin second degree burns
My father refers to it as being immortal. As a joke I guess. He'll grab something hot, like a cast iron pan that has been on the stove, and then we'll do the same and immediately draw our hands back because it's just too hot. And were like, "We can't touch that, it's too hot." And then my dad is just like, "For a mere mortal." Apparently it comes with being Chinese. My siblings and myself didn't get enough Chinese in us I guess. Apparently the Chinese have a high tolerance for heat.
Same thing happend to me when I played guitar constantly. The reason behind it was I just got loads of callouses on my fingers. When I was building my airplane same thing with my hands, in the beginning the sheets of aluminium would cut me all the time, when I finished my hands got so tough it was hard to cut them.
Its called being extremely stressed and when you are giving birth you might forget to breath and all the pressure from tensing and not breathing may destroy your nerves.
I took care of a sick cat when I was in Taiwan. She looked weak and never comfortable and had a runny nose and saliva hanging out of her mouth and her fur was falling out. As soon as she got pregnant she got healthy. Her nose stopped running, her fur grew back and she looked great and had tremendous energy. She stayed that way all the while nursing her kittens. Then as soon as the kittens stopped nursing she got sick again and went back to looking the way she was before.
My boss has a crazy good sense of smell when she's pregnant. She stepped into our huge grocery store market and immediately smelled gingerbread, as if it was baking.... which it wasn't. Finally somebody found a box of frozen gingerbread tucked away in a freezer. Mind you, we sell fish. And meat. And fried foods. And dozens of more products in that same freezer. She could smell through all that!
I just thought I'd applaud your presentation. A few of the posters say, "Women's bodies are not 'out of control' when these hormones flood the body and amazing changes happen. What you described was exactly how it was for me. While they possibly did not have these seismic changes happening, or were unaware of them, or were already 'possessed' by demons and it was 'no big deal', being pregnant for me was all that you described. AND nothing can be more sudden that being full blown 9 months pregnant one minute then deliver a baby the next and be completely NOT PREGNANT. Now that is a crazy ass situation and takes some women on a roller coaster from hell, in terms of sudden fluctuations in mood and physical being. Good job! Women rock!
No, it isn't. I simply stated how hate can weasel it's way into anything in a passive aggressive sense. You did just that. If I'm wrong, what was the point in posting such a rude comment?
The nesting thing probably kicks in because the mother would want her child to be in the cleanest environment possible. But every mother would want that for her child right?
+Fire Breather I agree. XD it sounds awesome anyway because once it ends the mom is like "Look! My house is clean for the first and only time for eighteen years."
Mentally? Maybe not. Physically? Absolutely. Genes just want to pass themselves down. This is why humans have a lot of cool things, instead of being dead.
Well what I have noticed from cats is that the find a nice place to give birth as nesting behaviour but because humans give birth in hospitals I guess cleaning and organizing babies things is something to put that behaviour to good use I mean most mammals find the place they’ll give birth in and then stay their with baby(s) until their old enough to go somewhere
I remember my 4th grade art teacher. I told her "Wow, you have A PERSON INSIDE OF YOU! And you have the ability to build a person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" She laughed.
I don't think personal identity can be traced all the way back to before fertilization. After all, why is it that, prior to fertilization, you think you were the egg rather than the sperm?
If you get pregnant and give birth just once, your body may go through some insane, very uncomfortable, and sometimes downright shitty changes, but you will also go through some VERY beneficial physiological and psychological changes. For one, your skin will become much clearer and healthier. There are many other benefits, but I'm out of time for today, ladies! Do some research and you will see that I am correct :)
Jared Focose Pregnancy hurts like hell. My mom still has partial paralysis in her left leg, achy joints, is prone to swelling, and these wicked stretch marks. Her skin's also really stretched out and flabby, though relatively clear... because she lasered it to be that way. Children are also expensive, gross, and messy little monsters. Much love to my mother and mothers everywhere (and fathers too, but right now im focusing on those who have to deal with morning sickness and all that shit) for putting up with everything.
NO3- Junkie I was within the normal baby weight range, but quickly gained weight since then. Up until I caught a stomach bug when I was two, and now I am the pickiest person I know.
I may be a scientifically-oriented person but I also have a religious side.Get out or I'll sprinkle you with holy water(hydrochloric acid,I'm kidding).
Yo Scishow! thanks for talking about this! So great to know what expecting people go through. i found this ep to be pretty sympathetic as well. ...anecdote time! I have always had a heightened sense of smell. The other day I used it to locate a bad smell in the office which is now gone ^^. Wonder if it means I will be in for terrible morning sickness.
Wait.... so you're saying women in their last trimester get their houses clean? It's almost like they're expecting some sort of impending life change that requires a cleaner house. I wonder what that could be?
Yep. That dark line was so strange, and it's still there, faded but there. Pregnancy is so weird. I used to love milk. After I stopped breast feeding, for whatever reason, I became lactose intolerant. It's incredible what happens to a woman's body in less than a year. Nesting is weird, as are the cravings and mood swings.
my cousins never lost theirs. I'm not entirely sure of that facts behind this, but if you have a darker skin color and race, such as Hispanic, indian, African, native American indian, and so forth, then you are more likely to have it and not lose it. my cousins are Mexican and they still have thiers.
The skin darkening also includes the nipples, areola, armpits, and labia. The nipples and areola enlarge and become darker in all pregnant people, and the color usually fades over time, but they never go back to the way they were before pregnancy. .
Hey SciShow: I read the increased sense of smell and nausea is a throwback to helping our ancestors avoid spoiled meat or otherwise uneatable food that would make them sick and potentially endanger the child. Any way you could look into that?
+Konna Linae Please consider it if you can do it, we have too many humans already. That rather pragmatic view aside, growing up in a foster home is probably the worst way of growing up, including having only one parent. I mean, 0 is distinctly worse than 1.
well, it is better when you think about it. humans are overpopulated just like dogs and cats, and what do people say about cats and dogs? "adopt don't shop". or, in this case, "adopt, don't create more humans then we need"
To address 1:25 : I'm no doctor, but it seems a heightened sense of smell would aid in the avoidance of icky things. Olfactory receptors detect certain chemicals in the air, and those most identified as "bad smells" are often produced by potentially harmful creatures. For instance, methane is perceived as unpleasant because we don't want to accidentally eat many of the bacteria which produce it. Heightened smell could have allowed pregnant women to detect smaller quantities of these bacteria, and find cleaner places to gestate or give birth before sterilized delivery rooms were a thing.
Maybe the heightened smell is an evolution thing To sense predetors and protect the baby and mom so she can sence predetors more easily and thus escape faster. Not sure we need that now but it probably helped a good thousand or so years ago. This is probably wrong because I just came up with it lol. Now im going to watch the rest of the video
At about 2 minutes of every single one of your video i get completly comftable with the spead of your speach (and i no longer have to focus to understand everything you say, since you speak so fast and english is not my native language. But your spead is awesome!) and i feel so interested and captivated and i wish i couldd listen to this for hours and i look down to see there are only 40 si 80 seconds left of it.. Good thing there are many other videos
You mentioned hyperosmia and anosmia, and as someone with hyperosmia, I think it would be really cool to see a video about that sort of thing (Maybe just the nose/sense of smell in general?)
I wonder if the skin darkening that he speaks of is a result of the bodies inclination to prevent things like sunburn when pregnant somehow... Evolution is weird that way, seems like there could be something to it...
A pregnant woman in my office complained that she can smell a cactus and it was making her feel sick. We found the 3 inch tall cactus inside a coworkers desk more than 20 feet away. I put the cactus to my nose and could not smell anything.
Awesome video ^_^ Here's one use for morning sickness: it lets the mother know she's still pregnant. I know of several mothers who have had multiple miscarriages (poor ladies) who are grateful for everyday that they are sick, because that means that the baby is still doing well. They get scared if a day comes during that first trimester and they're not sick. They're far more prone to call their OB or midwife right away in that case.
I am 28 weeks pregnant with a little girl (yay! :) ) and just a few hours ago I was getting hot (no no no, don't wander) like, having to take off my shirt & opening the window for cool air as my fiance next to me is hiding under the blanket freezing. So I came on youtube seeking answers! Haha. Found out you get hot easier, body heat from 2 bodies. Or something like that. Now I am finding out all this other crazy stuff. Aw, she just kicked me :) the only time beating another person is adorable
Do you think the heighten since of smell ties back to cave times? Think about it, you have to stay away from danger and if you could smell a tiger, or what ever animal during those times, the safer you would be and for the baby. A defense mechanism. So if you smell smoke a few feet further away before approaching it, you know you can go a different route to prevent 2nd hand smoke.
Also, laying on the bed doesn't help the mom at all, it is better to stand up and squat with your hands under you to catch the baby, laying on a bed just makes it easier for the doctor, but not the mom.
Robo Batman Actually childbirth takes several hours. The time could possibly shortened by standing and squatting though. I think the longest birth ever is about 72 hours or something like that.
It gets weirder. Im 5 months right now and have been going through things that I find completely ridiculous. Like not being able to breath at night and my ears are clogged ALL the time. Its hard but its road to cross if you want to deliver a baby.
Alyssa Dillonaire I felt like there was something off about what was shown in the video because I remember it being called Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. Lol XD
Honestly, my morning sickness has been mostly in response to things that are not good to have near me or my growing koosh. If the kitchen isn't clean I can't go near it. I'll register smells/sights that disgust me without actually taking 100% notice of them and it can take me forever to narrow it down. The worst is that I can't be the one to narrow it down because if I expose myself to the area of disturbance too long I get sick. The great thing about it is that It does keep the house cleaner.
The whole morning sickness correlation to smell thing relieved me so much because I can't smell anything except super strong things. They're normally so strong I can taste them (molded cat poop, vicks, chlorine) so it's good to know something good could happen about this!
Maybe women who showed obvious signs of being pregnant were more likely to be better protected from the elements and things with teeth, and were more likely to live to carry their child to term?
Sometimes the internet makes me really really sad. There are a lot of ignorant people or at the very least, people who think it's "cool" to seek negative attention like an unloved 8 year old by trolling. Your comments reminded me that not all Internet people suck. So thanks!
I think the fathers should have also gotten a shout-out for 1. making said pregnancy actually happen 2. helping and understanding the mothers during their pregnancies.
***** Why do you feel the need to make it a contest? It could also be said "on the flip side the man carries both the 3kg baby and the wife through life" but that's not going to lead to any productive arguments.
That "nesting" was VERY true with my wife... Up until the VERY last day of pregnancy, she was on a cleaning binge... Lifting couches & things like that, while I was at work. She scared the heck outta me!
lol, I could not get the image of an obviously pregnant woman bursting into tears when I heard "you also look a little bit like a raccoon". This was quite informative and fun to watch. The science behind pregnancy is very interesting. I'm glad you also managed to make it kind of funny too. Rock Scishow.
So my sense of smell has been way stronger than usual. Smells I usually like make me wanna vomit. I took a pregnancy test and it was negative. So does anyone know what it might be?
These are all probably the few changes a woman goes through that are not completely uncomfortable (except for morning sickness) and the people in the comments are saying this video didn't make them want to get pregnant. Really? You're all THAT sensitive?
+Jared Focose I was talking about the people in the comments who say, "I will never have a baby because of thee symptoms." It suggests they never had a child either. I was just saying the the symptoms in this video (besides morning sickness) aren't as bad as other, stranger symptoms.
Hank, there has been some recent research on the properties of water and how they can be used to make batteries and better water purification systems. Romulus Whitaker did a TED talk about it, and it sounded amazing. It would be cool if you could present the material on scishow.
What if the heightened sense of smell has something to do with searching for food? Like maybe it's just an instinct our ancestor had and we still have it until now.
I hope everybody who says that pregnancy just ends up being a waste bc of a smelly annoying child is calling themselves that, I mean all of you guys were children right?😂😂
Gracelyn Pugh Have you considered that 'you never should have been born' jokes aren't funny? Heres something that isn't funny: Your mom should have had a boy because they are actually capable of making jokes that aren't offensive. (Please disregard the sexism there. It's for the example. I am for equal rights.)
I suffer from hyperosmia and believe me, it is not just about being ABLE to smell more, it's also very much about being EXTREMELY SENSITIVE against any kind of smell; natural ones are less painful then artificial ones - I take manure over perfume any day, thank you very much all you guys and girls who announce their presence by a wafting cloud of perfume or "deodorant" from 10 meters across the room.
sjjs3189 It's not because of the gravity that the core is molten. Gravity is actually far less in the center, so much that one might feel weightless if you could survive long enough. Because the Earth's mass is mostly evenly distributed around the core. It's actually the heat, built up from all the pressure of the mass around it
At 6 months pregnant I found this very interesting. The smell thing is definitely true for me (there is no raw chicken allowed in my house at the moment). Good video, Hank. Keep 'em comin'. :)
I was out at sea & got pregnant. The boat motion still didn't bother me, but the smell of diesel smoke from the engines became so overpoweringly sickening that I had to go back to shore after less than a week. For the next 15 years I'd get nauseous every time I was behind a diesel in traffic.
You say that, but let's be honest, womb envy is only a thing because some woman was offended by the concept of penis envy and had to turn it around. I don't know of any man who would rather have a womb. Like, the idea of carrying a baby to term is just awful. Who would want that? How unpleasant is that shit? So unpleasant, right? We're totally okay having penises and all of the other physical and social benefits that come along with having a penis.
***** Womb envy has nothing to do with literally wanting a womb (and neither does penis envy for that matter; as you suggested, it's more about the societal benefits, not the anatomy itself). It does, however, explain how men are more obsessed and driven to create a legacy and leave something behind that matters. While women are certainly capable of making lasting impacts on the world, there are few greater achievements that LITERALLY MAKING ANOTHER HUMAN. Women get to do this, so anything else is bonus. Men don't have this, so they spend their lives trying to do something amazing, but subconsciously they know they'll never produce anything as great as what a woman can. THIS is womb envy.
SarahBethG812 Women don't make humans though. Women simply have the luxury of carrying the mini human. Honestly, producing humans is great and all, but producing something that literally changes the lives of people in your country is far more amazing.
It has been suggested that the heighten sense of smell is due to a pregnant body being at a heighten risk of susceptibility from food poisoning. With a better sense of smell you can tell if food is spoiling sooner. If you think about it this makes a lot of sense, since refrigeration is a fairly recent invention in the history of man kind. Interestingly, the elderly is at increased susceptibility for food poisoning due partially to a progressive decrease in sense of smell.
It would be nice if you guys could do something about hyperemesis. I've spent the last month and a half in and out of hospital because of it. And it's about time more people knew about it :)
I'm a feminist and this is literally just biology. These are no gender role contructs as you say. These are things that happen to a lot of pregnant women.
Hei man. You have a lot of young female fans; could you knock of the body-shaming language? A pregnant body is NOT "out of control", Pregnancy is a perfectly ordinary thing that happens to a lot of people. No need for behaving like women and girls are weird freaks just for having perfectly normal bodies.
That wasn't really body shaming language in any way really, since it wasn't saying anything either negative or positive in relation to a woman's body while pregnant, rather offering an observation as to what occurs with the huge number of hormones a woman's body releases when pregnancy occurs. Pregnancy is a perfectly ordinary thing to occur but it isn't a normal state of being for the majority of ones life and as such the extreme changes that do occur can seem out of control in relation to the SOP for a female body.
blackcatkuroi Nothing is "out of control" in a normal pregnancy. The processes that occur in pregnancy are quite controlled and precise and normal and claiming that women have "totally out of control bodies" in any context is shaming. That just the truth. It is also extremely hypocritical of him to use the word "crazy" in this way when he has another video where he says that word should not be used informally, or at all. So yeah, bad video.
Alright, I see where you're coming from with the phrase "out of control" and where you could pull the body shaming from that sentence, if that's really what you're digging for here, as there is absolutely nothing shaming at all about this video. The phrase here for "out of control" harkens back to the beginning of the video though, where he states that your body is "capable of a lot of amazing, weird, and unusual stuff whether you want to control that stuff or not." Out of control refers to your control, your conscious control. You ability to control a thing. Pregnancy processes are all done separately from your conscious decisions and oftentimes your body, while undergoing a process that is natural it is also stressful and taxing and uses a lot of the resources a female body produces. It can seem out of control simply because you can't control it consciously, which is why I linked the phrase back to his original statement of you controlling it consciously. You can argue the language point here all you want, and you would have your linguistic ground to stand on, but that was what I took from the statement.
There is no female shaming in this video at all, ATALL u fucking feminist extremists make me hate feminism . I'm up for gender equality any day but feminists have too many extemists, I'm officially against your cause
Grae, its an imperfect world. The best we can do at this point, is keep showing we are not going to be hostile in asking for equality, but show we will be persistant. Its sad though. I thought people were better than that.
You changed the very nature of RUclips with this video, Hank! Instead of unyielding bickering about religion, we got unyielding bickering about gender. Well done, sir.
Why is everyone arguing? I never understand this behavior. Hank was merely putting forward some pregnancy facts uncovered by science... Anyways, Congrats to all the pregnant ladies here. My Sis is in her 30's & pregnant right now for the first time, it's very exciting! Thanks for the interesting info Scishow.
"and especially, thanks to my mom" That was just so sweet!
I thought pregnant women's smell would get hypersensitive as a form of defense mechanism keeping them from eating spoiled or poisonous food, because this could damage the baby.
Thats most likely the case but scientists are too scarred to confirm anything without a buttload of evidence behind it, I agree with you though
Robo Batman Science requires evidence to confirm suspicions. But yeah, Charlie has a point.
Exactly, its hard to declare something a fact in the scientific community
I also think that it works as a defense mechanism, in order to detect all sorts of things, including predators (back in the early days of humans), not just for spoiled foods. (just my thoughts)
Certainly a great hypothesis
I swear mothers also get temperature resistant skin after having a child, my mum has taken something out of the oven like it was nothing and when i go to do the same thing i suffer freakin second degree burns
That is totally true, both my grandma and my mum refer to this 'super power' as having "asbestos fingers"!
My father refers to it as being immortal. As a joke I guess. He'll grab something hot, like a cast iron pan that has been on the stove, and then we'll do the same and immediately draw our hands back because it's just too hot. And were like, "We can't touch that, it's too hot." And then my dad is just like, "For a mere mortal."
Apparently it comes with being Chinese. My siblings and myself didn't get enough Chinese in us I guess. Apparently the Chinese have a high tolerance for heat.
Same thing happend to me when I played guitar constantly. The reason behind it was I just got loads of callouses on my fingers. When I was building my airplane same thing with my hands, in the beginning the sheets of aluminium would cut me all the time, when I finished my hands got so tough it was hard to cut them.
Its called being extremely stressed and when you are giving birth you might forget to breath and all the pressure from tensing and not breathing may destroy your nerves.
+MrKangorilla My mom LOVES the heat. While i'm dying in 100 degrees heat, she'll refuse to turn on the air conditioner.
I took care of a sick cat when I was in Taiwan. She looked weak and never comfortable and had a runny nose and saliva hanging out of her mouth and her fur was falling out. As soon as she got pregnant she got healthy. Her nose stopped running, her fur grew back and she looked great and had tremendous energy. She stayed that way all the while nursing her kittens. Then as soon as the kittens stopped nursing she got sick again and went back to looking the way she was before.
MajorCulturalDivide oh my goodness
MajorCulturalDivide
That's what makes pregnancy so fascinating.
I used to have major issues with my stomach but healed the moment I got pregnant.
MajorCulturalDivide I think I heard about babies sending stem cells to the mother to help heal.
Caleb diedrichs
You are right.
I had no idea. Thank you for that information, Caleb.
When my mom was pregnant with me, she smelled an electrical fire on a bus before anyone else noticed.
Anoinette asdf your moms a hero
They need to add capes to the maternity section at stores...
They need to add capes to the maternity section at stores...
Anoinette asdf They need to add capes to the maternity section at stores...
super woman!!!!
It is so refreshing hearing a man speak so unbiasedly and matter of factly about pregnancy - thank you
what
He sounds like he's saw some of this firsthand.
My boss has a crazy good sense of smell when she's pregnant. She stepped into our huge grocery store market and immediately smelled gingerbread, as if it was baking.... which it wasn't. Finally somebody found a box of frozen gingerbread tucked away in a freezer. Mind you, we sell fish. And meat. And fried foods. And dozens of more products in that same freezer. She could smell through all that!
Oh wow XD
Did he just say, "Happy bunny farts."?
Family-of-the-Universes (FNaF AU, Roleplayer, ect.) yes, yes he did
I just thought I'd applaud your presentation. A few of the posters say, "Women's bodies are not 'out of control' when these hormones flood the body and amazing changes happen. What you described was exactly how it was for me. While they possibly did not have these seismic changes happening, or were unaware of them, or were already 'possessed' by demons and it was 'no big deal', being pregnant for me was all that you described. AND nothing can be more sudden that being full blown 9 months pregnant one minute then deliver a baby the next and be completely NOT PREGNANT. Now that is a crazy ass situation and takes some women on a roller coaster from hell, in terms of sudden fluctuations in mood and physical being. Good job! Women rock!
***** I'm wondering if all that hate comes to you because you aren't getting any and you feel obsolete? A little 'projection' I think.
***** You don't have to say the word "Hate" for the subject to be obvious in a conversation.
No, it isn't. I simply stated how hate can weasel it's way into anything in a passive aggressive sense. You did just that.
If I'm wrong, what was the point in posting such a rude comment?
*****
I don't want any STD's, thank you very much.
*****
This is coming from the same person who said " Fuck you". Anyway, how many poles have you danced on already?
Mothers are Troopers. God Bless all the good mothers out there, especially my mama.
Low quality bait.
That's no bait, It's just sweet. No one would get angry at someone who think their mom is the best.
The nesting thing probably kicks in because the mother would want her child to be in the cleanest environment possible. But every mother would want that for her child right?
billy balding Oh wow, that just now occurred to me. XD I'm late. But that is true
+Fire Breather I agree. XD it sounds awesome anyway because once it ends the mom is like "Look! My house is clean for the first and only time for eighteen years."
SamThe RandomG1rl I KNOW RIGHT!!??
Mentally? Maybe not.
Physically? Absolutely.
Genes just want to pass themselves down. This is why humans have a lot of cool things, instead of being dead.
Well what I have noticed from cats is that the find a nice place to give birth as nesting behaviour but because humans give birth in hospitals I guess cleaning and organizing babies things is something to put that behaviour to good use I mean most mammals find the place they’ll give birth in and then stay their with baby(s) until their old enough to go somewhere
I remember my 4th grade art teacher. I told her "Wow, you have A PERSON INSIDE OF YOU! And you have the ability to build a person!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
She laughed.
Sometimes when I get stressed I think about how I was one out of a few hundred eggs to be chosen to be born
Even better is that out of millions if not billions of sperm, you were the fastest.
I'm always skeptical when people just say 'scientists discovered this'. Can you reference your work, such as who did, where and when?
lilly bee Be glad you where not what most would consider a bad egg.
I don't think personal identity can be traced all the way back to before fertilization. After all, why is it that, prior to fertilization, you think you were the egg rather than the sperm?
I miss Billy, too bad he was too slow to get to the egg.
Great. I'm adopting.
Same.
If you get pregnant and give birth just once, your body may go through some insane, very uncomfortable, and sometimes downright shitty changes, but you will also go through some VERY beneficial physiological and psychological changes. For one, your skin will become much clearer and healthier. There are many other benefits, but I'm out of time for today, ladies! Do some research and you will see that I am correct :)
Jared Focose Pregnancy hurts like hell. My mom still has partial paralysis in her left leg, achy joints, is prone to swelling, and these wicked stretch marks. Her skin's also really stretched out and flabby, though relatively clear... because she lasered it to be that way.
Children are also expensive, gross, and messy little monsters. Much love to my mother and mothers everywhere (and fathers too, but right now im focusing on those who have to deal with morning sickness and all that shit) for putting up with everything.
+Cali Latet Maybe you were a fat baby.
NO3- Junkie I was within the normal baby weight range, but quickly gained weight since then. Up until I caught a stomach bug when I was two, and now I am the pickiest person I know.
When I was pregnant my husband farted in bed and held the covers over my head do I couldn't escape and I threw up on him!!
Gina Powell 😂😂🤣🤣
@WakinTheDeadFan I know... disgusting, right?
My mother had the same thing happen to her 😂
What an interesting experiment! And the result?!
Why did he do that? That's messed up! 😔.
The thought of a mini, potential human being growing inside of my body just gives me the heebie jeebies. I might just end up adopting...
No wonder at eight months pregnant she cleans the house tells me I smell then kicks me out
That's rough
My mom died before I could meet my baby sibling...
My sister is pregnant, so I was curious about what she's going through...
That username and profile pic tho
Natalia Russo Do I frighten you?...
Joaly nocontroly Join me, won't you?
+Devil Child The AntiChrist?
I may be a scientifically-oriented person but I also have a religious side.Get out or I'll sprinkle you with holy water(hydrochloric acid,I'm kidding).
Yo Scishow! thanks for talking about this! So great to know what expecting people go through. i found this ep to be pretty sympathetic as well. ...anecdote time! I have always had a heightened sense of smell. The other day I used it to locate a bad smell in the office which is now gone ^^. Wonder if it means I will be in for terrible morning sickness.
Wait.... so you're saying women in their last trimester get their houses clean? It's almost like they're expecting some sort of impending life change that requires a cleaner house. I wonder what that could be?
Obviously, they're planning to throw fancy dinner parties, but then the kids pop out and ruin it.
Exactly. It seems to me a kind of flawed study...
Yep. That dark line was so strange, and it's still there, faded but there.
Pregnancy is so weird. I used to love milk. After I stopped breast feeding, for whatever reason, I became lactose intolerant.
It's incredible what happens to a woman's body in less than a year.
Nesting is weird, as are the cravings and mood swings.
+Ashley Sosa My kid is 5 years old now and I still have the dark line. I'm like..go away already!! >_
my cousins never lost theirs. I'm not entirely sure of that facts behind this, but if you have a darker skin color and race, such as Hispanic, indian, African, native American indian, and so forth, then you are more likely to have it and not lose it. my cousins are Mexican and they still have thiers.
The skin darkening also includes the nipples, areola, armpits, and labia. The nipples and areola enlarge and become darker in all pregnant people, and the color usually fades over time, but they never go back to the way they were before pregnancy. .
Hey SciShow: I read the increased sense of smell and nausea is a throwback to helping our ancestors avoid spoiled meat or otherwise uneatable food that would make them sick and potentially endanger the child. Any way you could look into that?
I have that dark line down my stomach but I've never been pregnant ....
As a currently pregnant woman, can confirm that everything about my body is weird right now.
At 0:51, it is HCG(Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin) and not HGC.
Being pregnant was the worst thing I have ever experienced. But it was worth it.
flappidyjack especially when you give birth
*O O F*
i love the way he delivers the whole thing. lovable
Well, this makes me never want to get pregnant. Maybe adoption is in my future...
+Konna Linae Right? I'm always like "Do I wanna get pregnant? Nah I'll adopt. But I also want a kid that is my biological child... AHHHH!"
+Lauryn Sawyer Surrogacy?
Alexandra Wilson-Newman
Maybe...
+Konna Linae
Please consider it if you can do it, we have too many humans already.
That rather pragmatic view aside, growing up in a foster home is probably the worst way of growing up, including having only one parent. I mean, 0 is distinctly worse than 1.
well, it is better when you think about it. humans are overpopulated just like dogs and cats, and what do people say about cats and dogs? "adopt don't shop". or, in this case, "adopt, don't create more humans then we need"
To address 1:25 :
I'm no doctor, but it seems a heightened sense of smell would aid in the avoidance of icky things. Olfactory receptors detect certain chemicals in the air, and those most identified as "bad smells" are often produced by potentially harmful creatures. For instance, methane is perceived as unpleasant because we don't want to accidentally eat many of the bacteria which produce it. Heightened smell could have allowed pregnant women to detect smaller quantities of these bacteria, and find cleaner places to gestate or give birth before sterilized delivery rooms were a thing.
Not just morning sickness...night morning afternoon😞
It's called morning sickness because it happens mostly in the first trimesters
I hope you feel better soon!
It's HCG (Human Chorionic gonadotropin) not HGC as showed at 0:51 :)
I have inherited that dark line from my mother. I'm not even pregnant.
hell, I shouldn't be. I'm only 12
It will fade over time :) I had the same thing growing up. It's associated with the hormone changes in puberty
My brother has it too
Mikya Thomas im pregnant to
and im 32
its two months old
Maybe the heightened smell is an evolution thing To sense predetors and protect the baby and mom so she can sence predetors more easily and thus escape faster. Not sure we need that now but it probably helped a good thousand or so years ago. This is probably wrong because I just came up with it lol. Now im going to watch the rest of the video
Ok you do that
At about 2 minutes of every single one of your video i get completly comftable with the spead of your speach (and i no longer have to focus to understand everything you say, since you speak so fast and english is not my native language. But your spead is awesome!) and i feel so interested and captivated and i wish i couldd listen to this for hours and i look down to see there are only 40 si 80 seconds left of it.. Good thing there are many other videos
You mentioned hyperosmia and anosmia, and as someone with hyperosmia, I think it would be really cool to see a video about that sort of thing (Maybe just the nose/sense of smell in general?)
I agree. I have anosmia.
That explains why a woman can smell your sweaty socks from 5 rooms away.
I wonder if the skin darkening that he speaks of is a result of the bodies inclination to prevent things like sunburn when pregnant somehow... Evolution is weird that way, seems like there could be something to it...
Robert Jones I've always wondered too. I've never gotten the dark line with either of my pregnancies though .
My mom almost killed me by cleaning the walls with bleach while close to nine months pregnant. Now I know why. ahaha
A pregnant woman in my office complained that she can smell a cactus and it was making her feel sick. We found the 3 inch tall cactus inside a coworkers desk more than 20 feet away. I put the cactus to my nose and could not smell anything.
Awesome video ^_^
Here's one use for morning sickness: it lets the mother know she's still pregnant. I know of several mothers who have had multiple miscarriages (poor ladies) who are grateful for everyday that they are sick, because that means that the baby is still doing well. They get scared if a day comes during that first trimester and they're not sick. They're far more prone to call their OB or midwife right away in that case.
I am 28 weeks pregnant with a little girl (yay! :) ) and just a few hours ago I was getting hot (no no no, don't wander) like, having to take off my shirt & opening the window for cool air as my fiance next to me is hiding under the blanket freezing. So I came on youtube seeking answers! Haha. Found out you get hot easier, body heat from 2 bodies. Or something like that. Now I am finding out all this other crazy stuff. Aw, she just kicked me :) the only time beating another person is adorable
Do you think the heighten since of smell ties back to cave times? Think about it, you have to stay away from danger and if you could smell a tiger, or what ever animal during those times, the safer you would be and for the baby. A defense mechanism. So if you smell smoke a few feet further away before approaching it, you know you can go a different route to prevent 2nd hand smoke.
He says you don't get a better sense of smell, just that the smells you could smell before are much stronger and often sickening.
Also, laying on the bed doesn't help the mom at all, it is better to stand up and squat with your hands under you to catch the baby, laying on a bed just makes it easier for the doctor, but not the mom.
Sooooo lemme get this straight, a baby just slips out?!?! Like i thought it was a few minute long process... Daymn
Robo Batman Actually childbirth takes several hours. The time could possibly shortened by standing and squatting though. I think the longest birth ever is about 72 hours or something like that.
Nice to know
It gets weirder. Im 5 months right now and have been going through things that I find completely ridiculous. Like not being able to breath at night and my ears are clogged ALL the time. Its hard but its road to cross if you want to deliver a baby.
This would have made a great mother's day episode :D I will have to bookmark this to send to my mom next year
HCG Hank, not HGC... love the rest of the video though!
Alyssa Dillonaire I felt like there was something off about what was shown in the video because I remember it being called Human Chorionic Gonadotropin. Lol XD
well I basically have no sense of smell so pregnant sounds great! 😂
You can make some guy with farting problems very happy... I know some.
Honestly, my morning sickness has been mostly in response to things that are not good to have near me or my growing koosh. If the kitchen isn't clean I can't go near it. I'll register smells/sights that disgust me without actually taking 100% notice of them and it can take me forever to narrow it down. The worst is that I can't be the one to narrow it down because if I expose myself to the area of disturbance too long I get sick. The great thing about it is that It does keep the house cleaner.
The whole morning sickness correlation to smell thing relieved me so much because I can't smell anything except super strong things. They're normally so strong I can taste them (molded cat poop, vicks, chlorine) so it's good to know something good could happen about this!
it would be cool if yall could do a video on different blood types :-)
Maybe women who showed obvious signs of being pregnant were more likely to be better protected from the elements and things with teeth, and were more likely to live to carry their child to term?
This vid makes me never want to get pregnant
+Asura the Latias I can change your Mind !!!
Please dont
+Asura the Latias our kid would look like a model 😁
Hehe ^.^
+Asura the Latias im a guy and i have alredy decided i am never going to let someone get me pregnant
Sometimes the internet makes me really really sad. There are a lot of ignorant people or at the very least, people who think it's "cool" to seek negative attention like an unloved 8 year old by trolling. Your comments reminded me that not all Internet people suck. So thanks!
I love your sense of humor 😁😜makes the video x100 interesting
when my sister was pregnant she could smell me from the opposite side of the house
I think the fathers should have also gotten a shout-out for 1. making said pregnancy actually happen 2. helping and understanding the mothers during their pregnancies.
they should explain how dads sometimes experience the same symptoms as moms do during pregnancy
Rainshi Omg like how some fathers kinda mimic their pregnant partners
Rock O'Dile naaa you'll never understand what it's like to carry a 10 lb baby inside you
*****
Why do you feel the need to make it a contest?
It could also be said "on the flip side the man carries both the 3kg baby and the wife through life" but that's not going to lead to any productive arguments.
I think you meant to say "hCG", not "hGC" Hank... :)
yeah. Ur right, hanks wrong. I know this cause of 爱情公寓。 anyone else?
+Elizabeth Li yesssssss爱情公寓！小姨妈XD
Lover's apartment?
+MajorCulturalDivide love apartment. Liver is like爱人，情人etc
+Sara Huang *lover. Autocorrect lol
That "nesting" was VERY true with my wife... Up until the VERY last day of pregnancy, she was on a cleaning binge... Lifting couches & things like that, while I was at work. She scared the heck outta me!
lol, I could not get the image of an obviously pregnant woman bursting into tears when I heard "you also look a little bit like a raccoon". This was quite informative and fun to watch. The science behind pregnancy is very interesting. I'm glad you also managed to make it kind of funny too. Rock Scishow.
So my sense of smell has been way stronger than usual. Smells I usually like make me wanna vomit. I took a pregnancy test and it was negative. So does anyone know what it might be?
See your doctor. Maybe something else is going on or the test gave a false answer.
Doctors don't know anything more than taking a test too. If you know your body, listen to it.
It will say @ da bak
Lyndzey!! Why not take another pregnancy test, just to be sure?
Melica Mage You do realize that if she was pregnant, by now she would've given birth?
These are all probably the few changes a woman goes through that are not completely uncomfortable (except for morning sickness) and the people in the comments are saying this video didn't make them want to get pregnant. Really? You're all THAT sensitive?
+Jared Focose I was talking about the people in the comments who say, "I will never have a baby because of thee symptoms." It suggests they never had a child either. I was just saying the the symptoms in this video (besides morning sickness) aren't as bad as other, stranger symptoms.
Jackie Matthews Congratulations! I don't know how long ago your daughter was born, but still.
that little triangle of your undershirt looks like a piece of cheese! I can't stop looking at it and thinking of cheese.
I had to look, lmao. It does look like cheese.
LOVE this show!!!! By the way, it's HCG, not HGC.
Hank, there has been some recent research on the properties of water and how they can be used to make batteries and better water purification systems. Romulus Whitaker did a TED talk about it, and it sounded amazing. It would be cool if you could present the material on scishow.
Pregnancy is evil! Good grief! LOL!
What if the heightened sense of smell has something to do with searching for food? Like maybe it's just an instinct our ancestor had and we still have it until now.
Tamaki742 he said it doesn't increase how well you can detect smells, only how sensitive you are to the ones you can smell.
I hope everybody who says that pregnancy just ends up being a waste bc of a smelly annoying child is calling themselves that, I mean all of you guys were children right?😂😂
+Hufsa Ezatullah Yeah 😂
So? Doesn't mean I'M going to go through the same thing.
Thanks, Hank!! I'm 15 weeks pregnant and it's been a freaking whirlwind of crazy. It's nice to know I don't have much control over it. Maybe?
Wait.... wait wait wait wait, what??! You just said "happy bunny farts" at 1:20. That should be a meme.
I have had Linera Nigra for as long as I could remember... I'm not pregnant and I never was. What the fuck is this supposed to mean.
it could maybe be marks from an ab line?
+JustFatima I'm guessing a natural overload of estrogen for your physiology. If you go back to that part, that's where it comes from.
+JustFatima Same
Everyone does even men it just gets darker when your expecting
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So thankful birth control exists
I have Linea Nigra and I've never been pregnant.
Gracelyn Pugh Have you considered that 'you never should have been born' jokes aren't funny? Heres something that isn't funny: Your mom should have had a boy because they are actually capable of making jokes that aren't offensive. (Please disregard the sexism there. It's for the example. I am for equal rights.)
Christian McGuire "Funny" is subjective. Types of jokes become popular /because/ a decent number of people consider them funny.
Gracelyn Pugh Pregnancy hormones went off there?
I suffer from hyperosmia and believe me, it is not just about being ABLE to smell more, it's also very much about being EXTREMELY SENSITIVE against any kind of smell; natural ones are less painful then artificial ones - I take manure over perfume any day, thank you very much all you guys and girls who announce their presence by a wafting cloud of perfume or "deodorant" from 10 meters across the room.
Congratulations on your baby by the way! Best wishes for the future, I hope you get enough time at home despite these things :) x
Hormone Carnival? sounds fun
LMAO, no. Just, no.
Sarcasm is somewhat hard to portray online, apologies for any confusion/if I seemed like an asshole.
Even just having periods is a pain in the butt. Can't imagine what a pregnant woman goes through
happy bunny farts lol
what does the centre of the earth look like?
the inner core is actually liquid iron. The gravity is SO strong, it can't solidify. The outer core is solid iron.
sjjs3189 ... Get back to the science books.
sjjs3189 It's not because of the gravity that the core is molten. Gravity is actually far less in the center, so much that one might feel weightless if you could survive long enough. Because the Earth's mass is mostly evenly distributed around the core. It's actually the heat, built up from all the pressure of the mass around it
Caroline Venus ... The outer core is liquid, the inner core is solid.
Patrick Frost ^ like he said.
It's *solid* due to pressure, not liquid, despite the intense heat.
So my 13 month-old son perks-up and dances frantically when the SciShow theme song plays. Great start little guy!
Literally watching this on Mother's Day and all I can think is... hot damn, my mother risked a lot having me in her.
I had to check if I had a linea negra...even though I'm a man.
lol. amazing name. black line. lolol.
So a fetus is actually "another separate body"? ...not part of a woman's body like so many people seem to think?
The fetus is connected to the woman through the umbilical cord, but a baby is a baby and a woman is a woman.
Well, yeah. You don't actually eat for two people. You just gain weight like that.
I'm sensing an attempt to try and start something.....
I'm sensing that you're over thinking that comment.
***** I'm sensing inability to detect sarcasm.
At 6 months pregnant I found this very interesting. The smell thing is definitely true for me (there is no raw chicken allowed in my house at the moment). Good video, Hank. Keep 'em comin'. :)
I was out at sea & got pregnant. The boat motion still didn't bother me, but the smell of diesel smoke from the engines became so overpoweringly sickening that I had to go back to shore after less than a week. For the next 15 years I'd get nauseous every time I was behind a diesel in traffic.
This guys got womb envy.
That has to be pretty crazy though, like... that is your kid. I don't envy the process but that has to be some bonding for the mother.
You say that, but let's be honest, womb envy is only a thing because some woman was offended by the concept of penis envy and had to turn it around.
I don't know of any man who would rather have a womb. Like, the idea of carrying a baby to term is just awful. Who would want that? How unpleasant is that shit? So unpleasant, right? We're totally okay having penises and all of the other physical and social benefits that come along with having a penis.
***** Womb envy has nothing to do with literally wanting a womb (and neither does penis envy for that matter; as you suggested, it's more about the societal benefits, not the anatomy itself). It does, however, explain how men are more obsessed and driven to create a legacy and leave something behind that matters. While women are certainly capable of making lasting impacts on the world, there are few greater achievements that LITERALLY MAKING ANOTHER HUMAN. Women get to do this, so anything else is bonus. Men don't have this, so they spend their lives trying to do something amazing, but subconsciously they know they'll never produce anything as great as what a woman can. THIS is womb envy.
SarahBethG812 Yea, guys get to have the offspring also so in a way they get the same legacy the woman does. But I know what you are getting at.
SarahBethG812 Women don't make humans though. Women simply have the luxury of carrying the mini human. Honestly, producing humans is great and all, but producing something that literally changes the lives of people in your country is far more amazing.
Happy Bunny Farts
happy bunny farts
I was wondering about that today and i thought I'd ask you to do an episode on it
Small correction to make at 0:54 - it's actually HCG (human chorionic gonadotrophin). This is what medical school has done to me.
I had Linea Nigra for years and i am a virgin boy. wtf.
You might have an estrogen problem? idk
It's called a snail trail m8.
I have linea nigra O_O and no, I'm not preggers lol. I've noticed it ever since I was a girl O_O
You probably have high levels of estrogen.
btw, I'm not a doctor, I'm just guessing based on facts from the video.
Is that a bad thing :( it's really really faint.
Just googled it. Doesn't look like a good thing. Infertility?!? Oh wells. Never wanted kids anyway! Haha I'm just overreacting.
PetiteCake As, I said I'm not a doctor. If you're really worried about it though, you should see an actual doctor, I hope it's nothing serious though.
NintendoGeek189 Of course you're not a doctor, you're a Nintendo geek! =^-^=
Im pregnant and im a dude is that healthy
Yeah, but that kid's gonna be fugly. :3
You are fat, no male pregnancy possible (possible in a rare case)
CATOFHACKS
The only male pregnancy on record occurred in a FtM transgender.
*****
Pretty sure he was BS'ing. :3
Just joining in and ruining the fun. No idea why.
It has been suggested that the heighten sense of smell is due to a pregnant body being at a heighten risk of susceptibility from food poisoning. With a better sense of smell you can tell if food is spoiling sooner.
If you think about it this makes a lot of sense, since refrigeration is a fairly recent invention in the history of man kind.
Interestingly, the elderly is at increased susceptibility for food poisoning due partially to a progressive decrease in sense of smell.
It would be nice if you guys could do something about hyperemesis. I've spent the last month and a half in and out of hospital because of it.
And it's about time more people knew about it :)
Better sense of smell? Im gonna fart whenever I see a pregnant women.
*****....why?
Well if there pregnant they can't run very fast can they?
OsunusIHA
ROFL
OsunusIHA some of us carry a gun. o_o
Justine Wind Serpentine Maneuvers
I wonder what feminists would say about these things. "Social gender role constructs". Mhm.
"Biology"
louie wallenberg
Oh, I've heard someone say that genes are a social construct. They were serious too.
The Ravenous Rabbit let's do a two year checkup: do you continue to believe that what you wrote makes any sense?
I'm a feminist and this is literally just biology. These are no gender role contructs as you say. These are things that happen to a lot of pregnant women.
Hei man. You have a lot of young female fans; could you knock of the body-shaming language? A pregnant body is NOT "out of control", Pregnancy is a perfectly ordinary thing that happens to a lot of people. No need for behaving like women and girls are weird freaks just for having perfectly normal bodies.
That wasn't really body shaming language in any way really, since it wasn't saying anything either negative or positive in relation to a woman's body while pregnant, rather offering an observation as to what occurs with the huge number of hormones a woman's body releases when pregnancy occurs. Pregnancy is a perfectly ordinary thing to occur but it isn't a normal state of being for the majority of ones life and as such the extreme changes that do occur can seem out of control in relation to the SOP for a female body.
blackcatkuroi Nothing is "out of control" in a normal pregnancy. The processes that occur in pregnancy are quite controlled and precise and normal and claiming that women have "totally out of control bodies" in any context is shaming. That just the truth. It is also extremely hypocritical of him to use the word "crazy" in this way when he has another video where he says that word should not be used informally, or at all. So yeah, bad video.
Alright, I see where you're coming from with the phrase "out of control" and where you could pull the body shaming from that sentence, if that's really what you're digging for here, as there is absolutely nothing shaming at all about this video. The phrase here for "out of control" harkens back to the beginning of the video though, where he states that your body is "capable of a lot of amazing, weird, and unusual stuff whether you want to control that stuff or not." Out of control refers to your control, your conscious control. You ability to control a thing. Pregnancy processes are all done separately from your conscious decisions and oftentimes your body, while undergoing a process that is natural it is also stressful and taxing and uses a lot of the resources a female body produces. It can seem out of control simply because you can't control it consciously, which is why I linked the phrase back to his original statement of you controlling it consciously. You can argue the language point here all you want, and you would have your linguistic ground to stand on, but that was what I took from the statement.
Thomas Hall *extremist
There is no female shaming in this video at all, ATALL u fucking feminist extremists make me hate feminism . I'm up for gender equality any day but feminists have too many extemists, I'm officially against your cause
Grae, its an imperfect world. The best we can do at this point, is keep showing we are not going to be hostile in asking for equality, but show we will be persistant. Its sad though. I thought people were better than that.
You changed the very nature of RUclips with this video, Hank! Instead of unyielding bickering about religion, we got unyielding bickering about gender. Well done, sir.
Why is everyone arguing? I never understand this behavior. Hank was merely putting forward some pregnancy facts uncovered by science...
Anyways, Congrats to all the pregnant ladies here. My Sis is in her 30's & pregnant right now for the first time, it's very exciting! Thanks for the interesting info Scishow.