Cervices?

[slemslempike]

The cervix is a lot rounder than I imagined. I was reading Belly Tales, and she linked to a blog where a woman took photos of her cervix every day through a cycle and posted them. Really cool.


I went to see Act Your Age recordings again with humanfemale. One of the guests was Stan Boardman. Sample joke: "I took my wife out the other night. One punch." It was all quite hideous and racist and horrible. He wouldn't stop talking. It didn't get any better. On the train on the way home I read the Virgin magazine, and in an interview (so not even with his "ironic" persona), Jimmy Carr described Nadia Almada as "the she-male". I'm not going to tag this entry as comedy, it's not true.

But I did have some very nice fried chicken, so a trip not entirely composed of bigotry.


I have a lump on the back of my head. I don't know how it got there, and it's quite tender when I poke at it, which I do quite a bit. Hopefully eventually this week my room will be finished and I can move everything back. This morning I woke up to shadowy shapes in my curtained window and thumps on the roof. Then there was a pause, and a voice said "uh, looks like there's a problem here...". So let's just not think about that. I got invited to someone's house for roast dinner on Sunday. I am looking forward to the beef.

Comments

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

I remember being surprised at how defined the cervix was when I first saw it during physiology studies. And just because I suffered the experience twice and Have To Share, let me tell you, there is nothing like the pain of somebody shoving their hand *through* your cervix in an attempt to see how far it will stretch.

Maybe the lump on your head is a result of the bigotry?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I can fully believe that there is nothing like that pain! I hope I never discover how far my cervix will stretch.

Due to brain collapse, perhaps, or perhaps I was banging my head against something without noticing.

[metamorphosa.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't either. It's another sign of western medicine thinking it knows better than nature. Natural childbirth ensures a baby hangs on, and only goes through the cervix when it's stretched so thin that the nerves are pinched and blocked. Of course, western medicine has decided there is a magical figure of 10cms for every woman that is Go for childbirth. They'll both force the cervix to that dilation before they let you push, and they'll also tell you to ignore your body and start pushing as soon as you reach it.

Grrr. Sorry, that's more graphic and ranty than I intended, but it's amazing how such a seemingly insignificant approach can feel like such a violation when you do understand the purpose of your cervix!