Talk:Gestation

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Question
Is the term ever used to describe pregnancy in humans, or just animals? --NEMT 16:05, 5 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I thought it was only aliens ;P Ragzouken 10:15, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * It's sometimes used, most often as part of gestational age. violet/riga (t) 11:15, 27 August 2006 (UTC)
 * That's a trick question considering humans are animals no matter how much we hate to admit it. In any case, I have seen it used in reference to humans, namely that the human gestation period is approximately 9 months. (The length of time varies greatly by species.) The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 09:46, 24 April 2010 (UTC)

Could link to important points in development across a gestational period and chemicals that affect gestation success or prematurity. Could also link to lengths of gestation (i suppose could include other species here). Also more photos demonstrating different stages of gestation would be a good visual aid. Perhaps a timeline?

Could briefly mention and link information about prenatal care and the importance of preventive care as well as recognition and management in the case of high risk pregnancy

Cleanup?
I don't think that this page is bad enough to warrant a cleanup tag, but it needs work. Why does it cover only humans and dogs? Can we get references to real authorities rather than semi-random websites? --Strait 23:01, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

there could be a selection of animals and their gestation periods.

Pregnancy begins
Strictly speaking, there are two definitions of when pregnancy begins:

Biochemical pregnancy; when blood concentration of Human Chorionic Gonadotrophin is detected in the blood. Clinical pregnancy; the first missed period. - this could be interesting to expand upon further

These are associated with implantation, but not linked —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 131.111.219.230 (talk) 21:45, 14 February 2007 (UTC).

Statistics on death rates
Gestation seems to be talking about the gestational period, mainly of mammals, but delves into birth statistics regarding human infant death. I do not think this is consistent with the gestational period, as said deaths occur after birth. This page should focus mainly on the development of the fetus during the gestational period, including notable development stages inherent to each "important" species, referencing pages on each individual species, humans included, making this page more about gestation as a topic than a gateway to talk about specific birth statistics.

Tjameson 17:22, 1 March 2007 (UTC)

Exactly WHO is gestating?
I can't find the answer to this anywhere (or, more specifically, I'm finding contradictory indications): Gestate is a verb, we all know that, but who is doing the gestating? Is it proper to say that the mother is gestating when she's carrying the fetus (as the opening sentence of this article would imply) or is the fetus doing the gestating while it passes time in the uterus? 65.80.253.157 (talk) 21:40, 26 September 2009 (UTC)
 * Wouldn't the mother be gestating the fetus; that is, with the fetus as the direct object? Although gestation is quite different from digestion, the mother would digest food in her stomach, and the food isn't doing the digesting. Her stomach and uterus are very different places, not only separate in space but chemically different, but the grammar of these 2 verbs shouldn't be that much different. The Mysterious El Willstro (talk) 09:40, 24 April 2010 (UTC)
 * In gestate, it seems like it's the mother doing the gestation. Still, in the sense of "undergo pregnancy", I think the fetus would be able to gestate too. Mikael Häggström (talk) 08:36, 5 October 2013 (UTC)