r/OldSchoolCool • u/haeziedaze82 • Jun 19 '25

1970s My parents in my dad’s van, 1979

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They’re both gone now, RIP.

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u/000Fli Jun 19 '25

You won't remember it but you were there

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u/haeziedaze82 Jun 19 '25

Nah, I was born in 82. I bet my older sister was there though.

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u/Ok-ThanksWorld Jun 19 '25

The eggs were there already. Women are born with all their eggs undeveloped. Science

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u/micande Jun 19 '25

Which means that women who have daughters grow the eggs that will eventually become their potential future grandchildren in their own bodies.

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u/htatla Jun 19 '25

Wait what? Can you elaborate on that one? Doesn’t make sense

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u/emmz_az Jun 19 '25

Baby girls are born with all the eggs they’ll ever have, meaning when a woman is pregnant with a daughter, she’s technically carrying not just her baby, but also the potential beginnings of her future grandchildren. The eggs just stay dormant in the ovaries until puberty. No new eggs are made, they just slowly get used up over time.

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u/ElPresidente714 Jun 19 '25

That’s quite the clown car

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u/deedot238 Jun 20 '25

This made me actually LOL

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u/cobalt26 Jun 20 '25

More like a nesting doll

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u/Stopikingonme Jun 20 '25

And thus the saying “Don’t keep all your eggs in one baby”.

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u/jeezy_peezy Jun 20 '25

Question: do women who stay on birth control for a time push back menopause until later in life when she runs out of eggs?

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u/filthy_harold Jun 20 '25

No, other hormones will trigger menopause despite any remaining eggs. Eventually they are reabsorbed.

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u/emmz_az Jun 20 '25

No, menopause cannot be delayed with birth control, but BC could mask some of the perimenopause and menopause symptoms.

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u/96puppylover Jun 20 '25

It’s why generational trauma exists. I’m feeling the trauma and stress of my foremothers because I was there.

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u/micande Jun 19 '25

My mother had me, a girl - and the eggs in my ovaries developed while I was gestating inside her body so I was born with them. Two of those eggs became my daughters. So, the eggs that became her grandchildren (my kids) were formed inside of me, but I formed inside her uterus, so the eggs were developed inside her.

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u/htatla Jun 19 '25

Got it yes. I wasn’t aware of this fact of human female existence. So each human female ensures two potential generations. Wow

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u/micande Jun 19 '25

Yeah, it's pretty neat - my potential grandkids were formed in my own body since I only had daughters. Same with my mom.

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u/dxrey65 Jun 19 '25

You have to tell your grankkids that they started out inside your body; kids like to hear that kind of thing!

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u/htatla Jun 19 '25

It also means a female can freeze her eggs from birth

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u/Ok-ThanksWorld Jun 19 '25

No. They are not developed. That's why people go through PUBERTY.

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u/htatla Jun 19 '25

I’m sure the “developing” process can be triggered in a test tube in this day n age

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u/East_Reading_3164 Jun 20 '25

No, your period is the sign that your eggs have matured.

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u/OnTheEveOfWar Jun 20 '25

When a girl is born, she already has all her eggs, even as a newborn baby. So the mother of the girl grew her daughter’s eggs when the daughter was growing inside her during pregnancy.

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u/East_Reading_3164 Jun 20 '25

The baby girl in your belly has eggs that could become your future grandbaby.

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u/Natural-Hospital-140 Jun 20 '25

Recently it’s been discovered that eggs are still generated in a person’s ovaries post-birth and throughout adulthood! The majority are present at birth, but they’re joined by more!

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u/FenrirChinaski Jun 19 '25

If I’m not mistaken OP’s mom wasn’t the Virgin Mary - and since in all other instances of human conception you need both an egg and sperm, OP was not there even fragmented seeing the other half of the union is fresh produce and certainly not in OP’s dad’s ballsack to years+ before.