\[ **BT: [[human beings]]** ] --- # human life cycle ## human reproduction [[Human reproduction is inherently gendered.]][^1] [[Culturally, women’s sexuality is frequently perceived as passive—with men the ‘initiators’ of sex and women as the ‘gatekeepers’.]][^2] [[Relative freedom from hormonal control, in regards to human sexual receptivity, is part of humanity’s ‘inheritance from pre-human ancestors’.]][^3] - see also: [[fertility]] ### conception/fertilisation - see: - [[contraception]] - [[contraception in China]] - [[trying to conceive]] - [[assisted reproductive technologies]] ### pregnancy - ↬ [Pregnancy - Week by Week (Personalised Calculator)](https://datayze.com/pregnancy-by-week) #### unplanned preganncy In 2011, approximately 45% of all pregnancies in the USA were unplanned.]][^1] #### pregnancy complications [[People working ‘chronic shift-work schedules’ experience menstrual cycle issues and ‘a high risk of preterm delivery’. They are also more likely to suffer from endometriosis, increased miscarriage risk, and low infant birth weight.]][^4] [[The foetal brain will not develop property if the gestational parent is anaemic.]][^2] - see also: [[health and wellbeing#anaemia]] ##### miscarriage/chemical pregnancies - ↬ [Miscarriage Odds Reassurer](https://datayze.com/miscarriage-reassurer) - ↬[Miscarriage Probability Chart](https://datayze.com/miscarriage-chart) #### prenatal development [[The foetal brain will not develop property if the gestational parent is anaemic.]][^5] - see also: [[health and wellbeing#anaemia]] ### labour/childbirth + see also: [[birth rites, customs, and folklore]] - ↬ [Daily Labour Probability Chart](https://datayze.com/labor-probability-chart) - ↬ [Labour Probability Calculator](https://datayze.com/labor-probability-calculator) ### postnatal development #### nutrition of infants ##### breast/chestfeeding - see: - [[breastfeeding (chestfeeding)|breastfeeding/chestfeeding]] - [[dysphoric milk ejection reflex]] ## childhood development - see also: [[childrearing]] ## puberty %% Why do puberty resources for boys cover shit like wet dreams and emissions, but girls is all menstruation and boobs…. no libido, NO DISCHARGE. Where the shit is the discharge??? (e.g. <https://www.amaze.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Amaze-Information-Sheet-Puberty-and-autism.pdf>) %% ## aging - see also: [[health and wellbeing#lower BBT and aging]] ## death and dying [^1]: Consuelo Rivera-Fuentes, ‘[[Rivera-Fuentes, ‘Gender and Hybridity’, 2000|Gender and Hybridity: The Significance of Human/Animal Characters in Magic Realist Fiction]]’, *Animal Issues*, vol. 4, no. 1 (2000), p. 34. <https://hdl.handle.net/10779/uow.27825465.v1>. [^2]: Julia C. Bond et al., ‘[[Bond et al., ‘Sexual Self‑Efficacy and Entitlement to Pleasure’, 2010|Sexual Self‑Efficacy and Entitlement to Pleasure: The Association of the Female Sexual Subjectivity Inventory with Sexual Risk Taking and Experience of Orgasm]]’, *Archives of Sexual Behaviour*, vol. 49, no. 3 (2010), p. 1030, <https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-019-01563-3>. [^3]: Alan F. Dixon, *[[Dixon, Primate Sexuality, 1998|Primate Sexuality: Comparative Studies of the Prosimians, Monkeys, Apes, and Human Beings]]* (Oxford University Press, 1998), p. 94. [^4]: Mario Caba et al., ‘[[Caba et al., ‘Circadian Rhythms and Clock Genes in Reproduction’, 2018|Circadian Rhythms and Clock Genes in Reproduction: Insights from Behavior and the Female Rabbit’s Brain]]’, *Frontiers in Endocrinology*, vol. 9, no. 106 (2018), pp. 1, 4, <https://doi.org/10.3389/fendo.2018.00106>. [^5]: Leonard Shlain, *[[Shlain, Sex, Time, and Power, 2003|Sex, Time, and Power: How Women’s Sexuality Shaped Human Evolution]]]* (Penguin, 2003), preface. EPUB.