There is No "Dinner-Plate Sized Wound"
What if we stopped lying about birth?
One of the most popular and persistent moronic falsehoods continuously spread about childbirth is the myth of the “dinner-plate sized wound” that women supposedly sustain on the interior of our uteruses following childbirth. This is nonsense.
There is no “dinner-plate sized wound.”
In fact, when women experience birth as the ecstatic transformational emergence that it is designed to be, there is no “wound” at all—certainly not on the interior mucosal surface of the uterus, an internal organ, designed (believe it or not) for pregnancy, gestation, and birth.
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Now, don’t get me wrong—we are indeed wounded by obstetric rape, abuse, and trauma. Many women experience terrible pelvic floor injuries from being fingered, fondled, and maimed, and violation— not to mention the lifelong emotional scars that the majority of us survive following industrial birth.
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But birth itself is not an accident or an injury.
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The “dinner-plate sized wound” is a lie. But it’s a lie that, apparently, everyone really loves to perpetuate.
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And alas, this deception is all over social media.
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Lately, when I make the mistake of venturing into the vapid cesspool that is instagram, I’m hit with a continuous stream of reels in which supposed experts parrot (among other inanities) the tired, idiotic story that women are crippled by the “dinner-plate sized wound” inside our uteruses once the placenta separates from the womb.
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But why? You might ask.
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Women’s bodies are powerful and magnificent, so why are we so afraid of owning that? Claiming it? Shouting it from the rooftops?
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Sigh. Surely we all know the answer to that rhetorical question at this stage. That’s right—Mind control! Compliance, obedience, intimidation, fear, dependency, and victimhood.
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We do so love our victimhood—we adore playing the victim (as women, especially) and we’re positively addicted to pandering to and promoting others’ victimhood to feed our own egos.
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We’re also creatively, cognitively, and spiritually retarded (all of us, without exception) and we are being increasingly entrained to submit to false authority.
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One dude in particular who goes by the handle @nourishherbody and who is remarkable only in his capacity to read his “backed by evidence” google search results by teleprompter in a zombified corpse-like monotone, garners hundreds of thousands of views for echoing this claptrap. One of his “dinner-plate sized wound” reels (there are a couple) is at over sixty-five thousand views, and women clamour to celebrate his “advocacy” and “support.” If you hadn’t guessed, I find him nauseating.
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He, and others like him, seem hellbent on infantilizing women and pathologizing the birth process when in fact, childbirth is a normal biological process, not a tragic accident, or an inherently traumatic form of disfigurement.
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Immediately after the birth of our babies, the uterus begins a process called involution whereupon it begins to contract and shrink, diminishing to nearly half the size it was at the height of pregnancy within mere hours.
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Even if there were a “wound” (which there isn’t), it couldn’t possibly be the size of a dinner-plate, because the uterus itself isn’t even close to that size, by default, unless there is a baby (and a placenta) in it.
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Furthermore, the interior of the uterus is an internal organ and a mucous membrane. When the placenta separates from the wall of the uterus, the process is a direct mirror of menstruation in which the lining of the uterus is released—which is also not a “wounding.”
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What, then, is the rationale for the use of this pernicious, specious comparison? Why are we so attached to the totally erroneous concept of the gaping internal “wound” following childbirth?
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Simple ignorance is one explanation. This is understandable to a degree, especially given that social media is programmed to propagate falsehoods.
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But what will never cease to blow my mind is the contingent of individuals who knowingly peddle wilful ignorance.
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In the comments section of a reel that I made in an effort to (valiantly) dispel the ridiculous notion of the “dinner-plate sized wound” (right here) one person wrote in to say that they agreed with me “100%” (that there is no “dinner-plate sized wound” at all) but that they also feel that “if we can get women to slow down and heal, and the people around them to provide care and aide and facilitate rest for her baby by using this analogy, then I am good with it.”
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Somehow, this strikes me as more offensive and morally bankrupt than any simple misunderstanding of biology.
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I cannot, on any level, relate to the intentional sanctioning, justifying, and seeding of lies and manipulation on the basis that women are too delicate or weak to simply know or speak the truth, or to uphold our own boundaries.
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When we do this, lies become embedded in our culture, our self-concept, and our consciousness. Lying then becomes customary, and this leads to distortions in our relationships and within society itself (universally in evidence all around us). In permeating this kind of structural duplicity, particularly in regards to the power of our biology, we deprive ourselves of the opportunity to even experience what is true, let alone to practice maintaining healthy boundaries.
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The normalization of the “dinner-plate sized wound” story also serves to obscure the very real—and totally unnecessary—forms of abuse and maiming that women suffer by the hands of medical professionals during birth, which have absolutely nothing to do with the spontaneous functions of the body, and everything to do with the satanic programs that underly and inspire medical totalitarianism in all of its permutations.
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Birth is, without a doubt, an immense journey—a radical transformation—and for most women, birth is an intense physical endeavour, as well as a spiritual quest.
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As such, birth is an event that absolutely necessitates deep rest, integration, and nurturing.
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We certainly require renewal and restoration so that our bodies can adapt and regulate, and so that we can be present with our babies and allow our bodies to fully recalibrate and integrate following the transfiguration of childbirth.
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Every women wants, needs, and is worthy of extensive repose following birth—not because we’re at risk of bleeding out from a “dinner-plate sized wound,” but because we have just given birth to a baby, and we are magnificent, and because we and our babies are deserving of time to consolidate the experience on every level of consciousness.
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But the “dinner-plate sized wound,” is pernicious ridiculousness. And frankly, if you feel the need to lie about biology to your partner, your family, your culture, because this is the only way you can come up with to inspire in them the desire to support their care and consideration for you after birth, you are setting yourself up for lifelong problems far beyond early postpartum.
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Ultimately, the “dinner-plate sized wound” narrative, like all false narratives, serves an important purpose, and that is to perpetuate the fantasy that women are frail and pathetic and doomed to martyrdom—not to mention dependent on medical professionals and surveillance technology to survive the most powerful, instinctive, and basic of all human endeavours (that would be birth).
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Resistance is futile, I know, especially now that the gibberish is now being echoed and amplified by non-sentient (yet “generative”) machines along with the the jabbering of seemingly only semi-conscious cyborg humans, who, absent any real embodied wisdom have only the capacity to mime and parrot, churning out memes, which, as long as they reflect obedience to the script, are privileged by the algorithm.
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But here I am, heroically persisting in speaking the self-evident truth, that anyone with a body and a willingness to stay human, can access. An increasingly vanishing phenomenon.
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Love,
Yo
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