#fallopian tubes

we called it an anti-baby shower :)

for context i made the decision this year to get my tubes tied (which for educational purposes is kind of a misnomer, i actually got my fallopian tubes completely removed).

my roommate and i had the idea during a smoke break that since i’ll never have a baby shower, we should do an ANTI baby shower to celebrate my tube removal lol. we had a uterus themed party with several games based off baby shower games. not pictured were the placenta jell-o shots (red colored of course), and a few other decorations that we made.

we played guess the tube length (based off the game where you cut a ribbon to guess the circumference of the parent-to-be’s pregnant belly), we cracked easter eggs with prizes and of course, pin the tube on the uterus. all the games’ prizes were sex related - condoms, lube, dental dams, etc. we wanted it to be silly + sex positive.

everyone always talks about the mileven kiss and how mike js stood there *shook* bc it was his “gay awakening” but no one ever talks about THIS. mike didn’t MOVEEE. it was ALL el!!! and yall still wanna say he wanted to kiss her? there wasn’t everrrr an attraction

I’m getting a bilateral salpingectomy tomorrow, so if anyone has any final words for my fallopian tubes, speak now or forever hold your peace.

i’m in pain but that’s to be expected. got some incisions on my chubby bb tummy

Model Pipeline

A multi-compartment 3D model of the fallopian tube – the connection from ovary to womb – grown in the lab from multiple cell types and extracellular matrix components. It provides a means to study diseases, drugs and is a recipe for modelling other anatomical settings

Read the published research article here

Image from work by Ashleigh J. Crawford and André Forjaz, and colleagues

Johns Hopkins Institute for Nanobiotechnology, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Image originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)

Published in Science Advances, September 2024