Fetus Don't Fail Me Now: How Scientists Raise Children

Posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 1, 2011 @07:53AM from the double-blind-man's-bluff dept.

An anonymous reader writes "In the latest column from scientist, humor columnist, and stand-up comedian Adam Ruben, he examines his own umbilicus and considers how being a scientist will affect his approach to raising his only slightly post-fetal child. From the article: 'I don't know how other prospective fathers treat their wives' pregnancies, but I saw it as a science project. It had a protocol, parameters, a timeline, and even the one item that makes funding agencies happy: a deliverable. I found myself poking at my wife's abdomen, asking, "Who's Daddy's little gestating blastocyst? Who's recapitulating phylogeny?"'"

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Re:If you ever have children, don't make my mistak by Intropy · 2011-06-01 08:27 · Score: 5, Informative

Agree with all of the above. When I referred to our "little blastocyst" my wife got upset and chided me for not knowing that by three weeks we most certainly had a gastrula.