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Wendy Zukerman

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

Here's Neil.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

Yes.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

And by the way...

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

The baby was born healthy.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

Here's the deal.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

Yeah, and look, we reached out to the doctor who wrote the case report several times, but we didn't hear back.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

He's now retired.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

We also asked a bunch of other doctors what they made of this report because it is so wild.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

And a couple of doctors said they just didn't believe it.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

Too unlikely.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

Others were like, maybe.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

One told us, quote, sperm are persistent little guys.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

And that doctor actually described a patient that they had had who had no obvious vaginal opening, who had apparently never had penetrative sex and also got pregnant and given birth to a kid with C-section as well.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

So, yeah, she was like, you know, it's unlikely, but stuff happens.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

Some of the doctors that we heard from also said that there might be another explanation for what's going on here and that maybe that dimple where her vagina sort of should have been wasn't totally closed off.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

Maybe there was a tunnel.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

tiny hole in there that was missed and sperm somehow got in that way, just sort of the more regular way.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

And the fact that all of this happened, you know, some 40 years ago, one doctor told us that they didn't have the technology on hand that we use today to diagnose someone with vaginal agenesis.

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

But still...

Science Vs
How Do You Get Pregnant With No Vagina?

They took a pretty good look in there and couldn't see a vagina.