Penny Sarchet

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1,050 appearances 18 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 3d ago

Penny Sarchet’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The World, the Universe and Us · The Mystery of Childbirth Is Finally Being Unravelled · 16 Sep 2026 podcast

Well, like always, we forgot pelvic health. voice-verified

And actually, if you have a narrower pelvis, you might be less predisposed to pelvic injury, pelvic organ prolapse, these kinds of things that voice-verified

often not talked about, voice-verified

are very common. voice-verified

And the thinking there is if you have a narrower pelvis, you might be less likely to sustain these kinds of injuries, and then you might then go on to have more children. voice-verified

Well, the end result, whatever's happening is we do voice-verified

But another surprising thing here is that this idea that we give birth to particularly helpless babies because of our narrower pelvises, that could also be wrong too. voice-verified

Yeah. voice-verified

So the science word for this is altricial. voice-verified

But actually, if you look across all of the other placental mammals, not just kind of monkeys, which are quite amazing when a monkey just kind of comes out voice-verified

holds voice-verified

to its mum. voice-verified

If you look at the across the piece with mammals. voice-verified

Human babies aren't actually particularly altricial. voice-verified

And so this idea that we have these particularly like early born babies, it might just be a distortion of the fact that we sort of measure how altricial a young infant is by comparing its brain now to the brain that it's going to have. voice-verified

And of course, humans have this amazing extended childhood period voice-verified

all of this extra brain development. voice-verified

So, yes, our babies seem very early compared to the brainy adults that we become. voice-verified

But that might actually be just because we have this extra phase of development compared to other mammals. voice-verified

So the ins and outs of that obstetrical dilemma are still being hotly debated. voice-verified

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