It's 5:06 a.m. Full-on Thursday. I left work at 4:25 - day shift folks were starting to trickle in. No, it's reasonable, my co-lead and I had to go through about 70 files before our crew comes in again and, well, we just didn't get to them until about 12:45. It was one of those crazy days. Insanely crazy, but productive and useful I was.
A. and M., my friends in Amsterdam, are waiting for a baby. She was due 4/27, but as of her e-mail response this morning, no baby. The little critter seems quite comfortable and in no hurry to join us on the air breathing side of things. That's one aspect of the gestation process I've never thought about - how the baby breaths when it's close to birth - there are no gills, yet it's living in fluid. Hmmm. Never has occured to me before. Someone please tell me how they breath, I'm too tired to look it up.
I'm going to bed now. Whether or not I sleep - well, at least I'll be reclined.
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Let me be the one to enlighten you:
babies get their oxygen through the umbillical cord. I guess if you define breathing as using the lungs to get oxygen out of air, they don't breathe at all until they are born and forced to...
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