Pregnant Zombies

Everyone goes with the Dawn of the death remakes logic on this one but I think differently. During the normal course of a pregnancy, the mothers and babies blood does not mix or circulates together. The umbilical cord attaches to the placenta. The placenta is the "container" that keeps the baby "isolated" from the mother. The fetal blood flows through the baby, out the umbilical cord to the placenta and no further. The placental membrane separates maternal blood from fetal blood. I know what you're thinking, babies get the alcohol that is in your blood if you drink during pregnancy and babies can get the mothers diseases. Yes they do get alcohol but, only oxygen and nutrients in the maternal blood diffuse in the intervillous spaces through the walls of the villi and enter the fetal capillaries. This unfortunately means that bad things like alcohol and drugs diffuse through the membrane, also. And yes they can get diseases, but this only happens when their is a defect with the placental membrane and the mothers and the babies blood mix or if its a genetic disease and I've never heard of a genetic Zombie disease.  So going with that and if the fetus didn't just die after the mother turned, I would say that most of the births from Zombies would be normal human baby, but during the birthing of the baby the mothers blood does cover the baby and if that got in say the babies eyes I would think the baby would turn.

For Those Who Don't Believe in Zombies

On the 30^th of April, 1962, at 9:45 PM, Clairvius Narcisse checked himself into the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in the town of Deschapelle in the Artibonite Valley of Haiti. Narcisse had been sick for some time, complaining of fever, body aches, and general malaise, but just recently he had begun coughing up blood. His condition deteriorated rapidly. Attending physicians noted that Narcisse suffered from digestive disorders, pulmonary edema, hypothermia, respiratory difficulties, and hypotension. His sister Angelina would later recall that his lips turned blue, or cyanotic, and that he reported tingling sensations, or paraethesias, all over his body. On the morning of May 2 his two attending physicians, one of whom was American and the other American -trained, pronounced Clairvius Narcisse dead. His body was identified by his oldest sister, Marie Claire, who affixed her thumbprint to the death certificate, and he was buried the next day. Eighteen years later, Angelina Narcisse was walking through the village marketplace when she was approached by someone claiming to be Clairvius Narcisse,  he identified himself by a boyhood nickname which had not been used for years and which was known only to members of the immediate family.  He said that shortly before he was pronounced dead, he felt as if his skin was on fire, with insects crawling beneath it. He heard his sister Angelina weeping as he was pronounced dead, felt the sheet being pulled up over his face. Horrifyingly, although he was unable to move or speak, he remained lucid and aware the entire time, even as his coffin was nailed shut and buried. He even had a scar which he claimed was sustained as one of the coffin nails was driven through his face. He felt the sensation of floating above the grave. There he remained, for how long he did not know, until the coffin as opened by the bokor (or witch doctor) and his henchmen, who him sent him away to a sugar plantation that was to be his home for the next two years. On the plantation, Narcisse and some other zombies labored from sunup to sunset, pausing for only one spare meal a day. He would later report that he passed his time there in a dream-like state, devoid of will or volition, with events unfolding before him as if in slow motion. Freedom came two years later. One of the zombies was being beaten by the bokor for insubordination, and in desperation the would-be victim managed to grab a hoe and kill his tormentor. To figure out if this was truly Clairvius Narcisse, Dr. Douyon came up with a series of questions about his intimate family history, which the man claiming to be Narcisse answered correctly. There was certainly no apparent motive for fraud in this case (zombies in Haiti are treated as complete social outcasts). His answers, together with the testimony of Narcisse’s family, neighbors, and physicians, convinced Dr. Douyon that the man claiming to be Narcisse was indeed who he claimed to be. To get to the bottom of this specimens of the zombie powders, from several different bokors, in several different locations were found,  three classes of ingredients were common to all the preparations: 1) charred and ground bones and other human remains, 2) plants with urticating hairs, spines, toxic resins, or calcium oxalate crystals,  and 3) puffer fish. The puffer fish contains tetrodotoxin, one of the deadliest poisons known to man. Easily five hundred times more powerful than cyanide, tetrodotoxin binds to the sodium channels on the nerve cell membrane, blocking transmission of the nervous impulse. Symptoms of tetrodotoxin poisoning include malaise, paraesthesias, cyanosis of the lips, digestive disorders, pulmonary edema, hypothermia, respiratory difficulties, hypotension, aphonia, and complete paralysis. It is likely that an individual poisoned with tetrodotoxin and then buried alive would suffer some degree of brain damage due to lack of oxygen. As Nathan Kline and others have pointed out, the higher centers of the brain, that control will and volition, would be the first to die, while the more primitive parts of the brain, that control vital functions such as heartbeat and ventilation, might still survive, this explains the Zombie like state. 
So if you are one of those people that say "Zombies could never happen", you're already wrong.

Zombies in Ed, Edd n Eddy

Zombies on the Food Chain

Humans as you know are on the top of the food chain, but not because of our natural abilities, its cause of our technology's and our intelligence's. So when you take those things away from us the odds are against us. So lets go over the differences between humans and Zombies. Humans are intelligent, have and can use weapons/ technology, and Speed (average speed 12mph). Zombies, have no intelligence's, which makes them unable to use  our weapons/ technology, these are the main reasons humans are on top of the food chain, and on top of that Zombies are slow. This puts them way way down on the chain, the only thing Zombies have going for them is that to an animal they look like a human, this may deter them from attacking, but its only a matter of time before they start to figure it out that Zombies are slow and don't know how to defend themselves. Now what will be the Zombies main predators? Stray dogs,there are lots and lots of them all over the world, they can get very aggressive and are a formidable force. There have been lots of cases of stray dogs attacking humans, some have actually killed humans. Now if these dogs can kill someone with the intelligence to run and fight, what do you think they would do to Zombies (note that these dogs would only be interested in the recently turned Zombies, because dogs digestive systems can't handle decomposed flesh). The big predator for the long term Zombies would be vultures, they have the digestive system that can handle the Zombie flesh, and they'd have no problem tearing through flesh and muscle, rendering the Zombie immobile eventually. Another predator for them are insects, flies, maggots, ants, ect... We don't even think of these when talking about predators, but think about how many flies you swat away from you in just one day, Now think of a Zombie it doesn't have the intelligence to swat flies or not stand in ants and Zombies have open wounds that cant heal. This means flies and ants will lay eggs in a Zombies eyes and wounds. Once the eggs hatch into maggots they begin to eat and ants begin to make the zombie there home, making tunnels inside it. eventually eating  its eyes and blinding it, rendering it even more defenseless to other predators or getting in its brain and killing it. Oh an one last predator, Us we aren't going without a fight an even though Zombies pose a moral dilemma I have the utmost confidence in us as a strong species to over come and prevail.

How Zombies Brains Work

Regardless to how a Zombie turns, they all act pretty much the same. This is do to whats going on in their brain. Okay a typical Zombie to me, moves slow and stumbles, continually eats even if full, Zombies can see, smell ,and hear, and has no decision making process. Why would a Zombie move slow and stumble about, walking is controlled by the Cerebellum, so knowing that we can conclude that a Zombies Cerebellum is up and running but damaged. Zombies just love to eat and eat, but its not just a love for eating, there's a part in the brain called Ventromedial Hypothalamus which tells you when your full, this is pretty much nonexistent in a Zombies brain. The sense of sight comes from a part of the Occipital lobe, smell comes from a part of the Olfactory bulb, and hearing comes from a part of the Temporal lobe, the lobes themselves don't work just the parts related to those senses. Now why would a Zombies decision making go right out the window, well  problem solving or decision making is controlled by the Frontal lobe and this in a Zombie is completely dead, leaving the zombie with no problem solving or decision making. One last thing that all Zombies have in common is their need to eat living human flesh. I feel that in the cases were a parasite/ bacteria or a virus is the culprit for turning a person into a Zombie that they are the reason Zombies target normal humans. In these cases it could be possible that when the parasite/ bacteria or virus get into the host's brain cells it programs the host to infect and spread so that the parasite/ bacteria or virus can live on and prosper. Since humans have made there way to the top of the food chain these parasites/ bacteria or viruses feel that these are the safest host to be in, so they only program the host to infect other humans. Zombies running on the most basic of instincts can still use it's intact senses to tell the difference between Zombie and human. Sight, can see the difference in speed. Smell, can smell difference in decomposing flesh and living. Hearing, Zombies really don't make alot of noise other than occasional moan and humans tend to yell, knock stuff over, shoot, and lots of other things that Zombies can hear and hone in on. This is what I think makes a typical Zombie tick. 

Zombies Abilities

A usual question that comes up when you're talking about Zombies is their abilities/ powers.
I've researched this question a little bit and have my own ideas of what they're capable of.
Zombies never sleep, and they are incapable of fatigue. Fatigue in the muscles is caused by a lactic acid build up. Zombies are incapable of producing this acid. Since they are incapable of producing lactic acid in the muscle tissue they feel no symptoms of fatigue. They also feel no pain, because the nervous system shuts down after "death", making them unable to feel anything. Zombies also require no air to "live", because they use such a small portion of their brain that if their just in an environment where oxygen is present they can "live". Knowing this you could say that zombies could live underwater, but that thought is misleading in my opinion, you would think of a zombie walking on the bottom of a lake then coming up on the other side. This wouldn't happen, because the human body during decomposition creates gas through out the body and would make a zombie float rendering it quite useless and at the will to the current. They are immune to drugs, poisons, gases, suffocation, and drowning. They fear nothing, zombies don't have the cognitive capacity to know how or what to fear. While not invulnerable to physical injury, zombies can suffer immense amounts of damage to their bodies without "dieing", except damage to the brain. Zombies can eat and eat and have no sense of being full, so that means their is no prime hunting period for zombies they're on the hunt for you 24/7.