of course, a kid is a baby goat, back in 1992 they were showing us on the surface-level realm about growing kids in artificial wombs … we can only imagine what goes on in deep underground bases with legal “grey zones”, especially in 2025
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg13418180-400-japanese-pioneers-raise-kid-in-rubber-womb
those women in the 1990s who reported being abducted by “alien”s and impregnated with “hybrids”? … then abducted again and having the fetus removed?
probably because in 1992 it required months in the biological womb before transferring to artificial womb … early stage of the tech 😉
backup of the page follows below:
Japanese pioneers raise kid in rubber womb
25 April 1992
Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World came a step closer to realisation earlier
this month when Japanese scientists announced that they have raised a goat
fetus in an artificial womb. The successful ‘delivery’ of the goat, believed
to be the first of its kind in the world, increases the prospects of rescuing
sick human fetuses and treating them in an artificial womb.
Yoshinori Kuwabara, a gynaecologist at Tokyo University’s medical department,
removed the fetus from its mother by Caesarean section after 120 days’ gestation,
about three-quarters of the way to its full term. He placed it in a rubber
womb filled with artificial amniotic fluid, and the kid was delivered 17
days later.
‘A goat fetus is very immature, even at 120 days,’ says Kuwabara. ‘It
corresponds to about the 20th to 24th week of gestation of a human fetus.’
In its second womb, the fetus was fed via a catheter with normal fetal
blood, which was oxygenated and recycled. Nutrients were added to the blood
supply. The sac was filled with a near exact reproduction of natural amniotic
fluid – a mixture of sodium and potassium chlorides, glucose and proteins.
The temperature was kept at a constant 39.5 °C by passing warm water
between two outer layers of rubber.
Creating an artificial womb has been tried before. In 1969, French scientists
managed to keep a sheep fetus alive in one for two days. Kuwabara’s goat
fetus faced two principal dangers. The 42-litre sac is larger than a normal
womb and the fetus had room to be more active than usual. Under these conditions
Kuwabara says the fetus could have taken in too much oxygen, which can be
toxic at high concentrations, or swallowed too much amniotic fluid, leading
to severe fluid retention. To reduce the danger, Kuwabara and colleagues
fed the fetus sedatives to slow down its activity and swallowing.
‘We have two objectives in our research,’ says Kuwabara. ‘One is for
animal models for fetal experimental medicine. The other is for clinical
use, to rescue very immature or sick fetuses.’
One condition Kuwabara says may be treatable by artificial gestation
is hypoplasia of the lungs, in which the lungs fail to mature. The disease
kills around 100 babies a year in Japan. ‘I don’t worry about the ethical
problems. I just want to rescue the fetus where it is impossible to be
rescued by present treatment,’ he says.
Kuwabara believes it may be possible to incubate a goat’s fetus from
as early as 90 days into gestation, and a human fetus from about the 16th
week. The kid, now one month old, is still suffering the after-effects of
the sedatives. It cannot stand or breath by itself. But as the muscle relaxants
wear off it is gaining strength and will soon be able to function properly.
Kuwabara says it is ‘doing well’.
