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Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html
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Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html
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Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html
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Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html
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Challenges in managing ruptured #ectopic #pregnancy complicated by hemorrhagic #shock in an #Ebola treatment unit in #DRC: first reported case, https://etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2026/09/challenges-in-managing-ruptured-ectopic.html
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First-time mother scared to feed her daughter after varying advice from multiple practitioners
Maddy Barrett wanted more than anything to feel “empowered” enough to make informed decisions after becoming a first-time…
#Australia #atenatalcare #AU #Australianstandardsforpostnatalcare #Austrlia #birth #Breastfeeding #Clancytrial #Cope #gidgetfoundation #latching #newborns #Post-patrumpsychosis #Postnatalcare #Postnataldepression #postpartum #postpartumanxiety #pregnancy
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‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol ArokA first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented
#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok
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‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol ArokA first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented
#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok
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‘Grief becomes a routine’: Farhana lost five babies. A ‘culture of silence’ exacerbated her pain
By Achol ArokA first-of-its-kind study shows the prevalence of miscarriage in Australia but experts fear multicultural groups remain underrepresented
#Health #Miscarriage #Sydney #Australianews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AcholArok
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https://www.europesays.com/ie/674187/ Irish women’s birth stories: ‘Women are so vulnerable when they’re pregnant’ – The Irish Times #Éire #ForYou #Health #hse #IE #Ireland #JenniferCarrollMacNeill #Pregnancy #RotundaHospital
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Strictly star Karim Zeroual splits from mother of his child and is dating again
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Nothing less than radical whole-system change is required to fix the NHS's maternity services | Julia Sanders
By Julia SandersIt’s vital that Yvette Cooper’s taskforce acts on the Amos and Ockenden reports – and puts the needs of women and families at the heart of maternity services
#Childbirth #NHS #Pregnancy #Health #Women #Society #YvetteCooper #Maternalmortality #Lifeandstyle #Healthwellbeing #Politics #TheGuardian #JuliaSanders
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The culture surrounding ‘ideal’ childbirth has to evolve | Letters
By Guardian StaffMolly O’Brien responds to an article by Natalie Morris about her five-day labour, while an NHS doctor shares her personal experience of feeling ‘othered’
#Childbirth #Pregnancy #Women #Health #NHS #Midwifery #Doctors #Parentsandparenting #Society #Family #Healthwellbeing #YvetteCooper #Labour #Politics #UKnews #TheGuardian #GuardianStaff
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By day five of my labour, I didn’t want an ‘ideal birth’. I only wanted to survive | Natalie Morris
By Natalie MorrisYvette Cooper’s maternity reforms must change a system that too often fails women when they’re at their most vulnerable
#Womenshealth #Childbirth #Hospitals #Society #YvetteCooper #Politics #NHS #Pregnancy #Health #UKnews #TheGuardian #NatalieMorris
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Women must not feel pressure to have ‘ideal birth’, says Yvette Cooper
By Jessica ElgotExclusive: New health secretary promises root-and-branch reform after damning maternity scandals
#Hospitals #YvetteCooper #NHS #Womenshealth #Pregnancy #Health #Society #Politics #UKnews #Childbirth #TheGuardian #JessicaElgot
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 👨🚀🤰 A #space gynecologist examines why human #pregnancy in space remains largely theoretical.
High #radiation and #microgravity pose serious risks to both parent and fetus, while female #biology is historically underrepresented in space #research. With more #Artemis missions approaching, scientists urgently need more #data before #births beyond #Earth can be considered safe.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/birth-pregnancy-in-space/
#science #humanbody #astronaut #medicine #reproduction #cosmos
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💁🏻♀️ TIL: 👨🚀🤰 A #space gynecologist examines why human #pregnancy in space remains largely theoretical.
High #radiation and #microgravity pose serious risks to both parent and fetus, while female #biology is historically underrepresented in space #research. With more #Artemis missions approaching, scientists urgently need more #data before #births beyond #Earth can be considered safe.
👉 https://www.popsci.com/science/birth-pregnancy-in-space/
#science #humanbody #astronaut #medicine #reproduction #cosmos
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Most pregnant Indigenous women in Canada have drastically different public health care experiences than other pregnant Canadian women. Many pregnant Indigenous women still have valid, justified fears about systematic racism in public health care because most are still treated like shit. That is a fact. I refuse to give much praise to Canadian public health care until they actually do better, on this ongoing systematic racism issue - as well as doing better on masking up in all medical/health care settings. Eugenics in Canada is happening to this day - with ongoing systematic racism & lack of public health safety by medical staff, who should know better but aren't choosing to do better.
#CDNpoli #SystematicRacism #HealthCare #Pregnancy #IndigenousWomen #Inequality #RacistCanada
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University of Nebraska-Lincoln: More realistic content may reduce social media harms for new moms. “Scrolling through picture-perfect portrayals of motherhood may be doing real harm to moms, but a new study from University of Nebraska–Lincoln media scholar Ciera Kirkpatrick shows a ‘dose of reality’ may mitigate some of the damage.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2026/04/27/university-of-nebraska-lincoln-more-realistic-content-may-reduce-social-media-harms-for-new-moms/ -
"But the anti-abortion movement is not, in fact, a movement dedicated to ending abortion. It is a movement dedicated to ending women’s equality."
#Trump #TitleX #women #TeenPregnancies #abortion #contraception #BirthControl #pregnancy #WhiteChristianNationalism #DHS #GreatReplacement #BirthRates
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"The anti-abortion movement generally opposes contraception, and wants it to go the way of legal abortion in the United States.
It may seem odd that a movement ostensibly dedicated to ending abortion would oppose the tools that are the most effective at ending abortion."
~Jill Filipovic
#Trump #TitleX #women #TeenPregnancies #abortion #contraception #BirthControl #pregnancy #WhiteChristianNationalism #DHS #GreatReplacement #BirthRates
/4https://www.throughline.news/p/is-trump-taking-taxpayer-dollars
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"The anti-abortion movement; the MAHA, or Make America Healthy Again, movement; and pronatalists who want to see birthrates rise at nearly any cost."
#Trump #TitleX #women #TeenPregnancies #abortion #contraception #BirthControl #pregnancy #WhiteChristianNationalism #DHS #GreatReplacement #BirthRates
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"Instead of getting highly effective contraception methods to the country’s poorest women so that they may decide if and when to have children, Title X under Mr. Trump seems aimed at getting more women pregnant, whether they want to be or not. And it appears to cater to three influential parts of the Trump coalition:"
#Trump #TitleX #women #TeenPregnancies #abortion #contraception #BirthControl #pregnancy #WhiteChristianNationalism #DHS #GreatReplacement #BirthRates
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"President Trump seems intent on killing Title X. This month, the Department of Health and Human Services quietly issued new funding guidelines that have effectively subverted the program’s entire purpose."
~ Jill Filipovic
#Trump #TitleX #women #TeenPregnancies #abortion #contraception #BirthControl #pregnancy #WhiteChristianNationalism #DHS #GreatReplacement #BirthRates
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Georgia Tech: New Mobile App Turns Phones into At-Home Fetal Heart Monitors. “Studies show that one in five pregnant women experiences perinatal anxiety, which is characterized by intense negative thoughts about their pregnancy. DopFone turns any smartphone speaker into a Doppler radar by emitting a low-pitched ultrasound and detecting reflected signals of abdominal surface vibrations caused by […]
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Performing vesicoamniotic shunt implantation during the first trimester of #pregnancy significantly improves survival rates and preserves kidney function in unborn children with congenital lower #urinary tract obstruction.
#PrenatalMedicine #FetalSurgery #Pediatric #Nephrology #DevelopmentalBiology #Medical #sflorg
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Ian Huntley's warped final insult to Holly and Jessica's families before death
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CW: reproduction,healthcare
If You’re Pregnant and Uninsured, Medicaid Might Be Your Answer
Prenatal care can make a huge difference to the long-term health of both the parent and baby. Every state offers health coverage to lower-income pregnant women who might otherwise go...
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/1ovni
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/healthq-pregnancy-pregnant-uninsured-medicaid-prenatal-postpartum/#audio #health-care-costs #health-industry #healthq #insurance #medicaid #multimedia #pregnancy #reproductive-health #uninsured #womens-health -
How #male #seahorses tap into their mothering side
“#Evolution of the brooding pouch was not cut from whole cloth de novo but was built like a quilt with different patches of genes and cells that function the same way in different animals,” says Bill Cresko, an evolutionary geneticist at Univ of Oregon who was not involved in study. “It’s way cool.”
Finding helps explain how #pregnancy could have evolved more than 150 times in animals, albeit almost exclusively in females
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10 of the best new books to add to your 2026 reading list
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/10-best-new-books-2026-36464662
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Lisa Riley's personal struggles from Emmerdale panic attacks to devastating health issue
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CW: CW: Hyperpregnancy
Void linux is my new goat as you can turn any e-waste into a broodwife monitor.
#hildanetflix #hyperpregnancy #hyperpregnancyfetish #johanna #hildatheseries #preg #pregnancy #pregnancyfetish #blackpumpart #myart #art #hyperpreg -
Spirituality & Religious Studies @spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com@spiritualityreligiousstudies.wordpress.com ·Moirai
In ancient Greek religion & mythology, the Moirai (a.k.a. in English as the Fates) were the personification of destiny.
There were 3 sisters named: Clotho, who was the spinner; Lachesis, who was the allotter; & Atropos, who was the inevitable, a symbol for death. Their Roman equals are the Parcae.
The Moirai’s role was to make sure that every being, mortal & divine, lived out their destinies. For mortals, this destiny went their entire lives & is pictured as a thread spun from a spindle. A spindle is the thing that Sleeping Beauty touched to become Sleeping Beauty.
Usually, they were considered to be above even the gods, in their role as enforcers of Fate. Zeus was even scared of them. Even though, in some stories, Zeus is able to command them. But these are rare.
The word Moirai (also spelt Moirae or Moerae) comes from Ancient Greek. This means “lots, destinies, apportioners.” It also means a portion, or lot of the whole.
In Dante’s Divine Comedy, the Fates are mentioned in both Inferno & Purgatorio by their Greek names. In Shakespeare’s Macbeth, the Weird Sisters (or 3 Witches) are prophetesses, who are deeply rooted in both the real & supernatural worlds.
The Moirai are:
- Clotho, the spinner. She spun the thread of life from her distaff onto her spindle. Her Roman equal was Nona (“the 9th”), who was originally called upon in the 9th month of pregnancy.
- Lachesis, the allotter or drawer of lots. She measured the thread of life allotted to each person with her measuring rod. Her Roman equal was Decima (“the 10th”).
- Atropos, “inexorable,” or inevitable,” literally “unturning.” She was the cutter of the thread of life. She chose the manner of each person’s death. When their time has come, she would cut their life-thread with her shears. Think about the end of Disney’s Hercules, when our main man, Herc, went to save Meg from Hades’ domain. Herc’s life-thread turned gold when he saved. Her Roman equal was Morta (“the dead one”).
In the Republic of Plato, the 3 Moirai sing together with the music of the Seirenes. Lachesis sings the things that were, Clotho the things that are, & Atropos the things that are to be. Pindar, in his Hymn to the Fates, holds them in high honor. He calls them to send their sisters, the Hours (Eunomia, “lawfulness”; Dike, “right”; & Eirene, “peace”), to stop the internal civil strife.
In the Theogony, Hesiod describes the Moirai as daughters of the primeval goddess Nyx (“night”), & the sisters of the Keres (“the black fates”), Thanatos (“death”), & Nemesis (“retribution”). Later in the poem, Hesiod instead calls them daughters of Zeus & the Titaness Themis (“the Institutor”), who was the embodiment of divine order & law. This places them as sisters of the Hours.
In the cosmogony of Alcman (7th century BC), first came Thetis (“disposer, creation”) & then simultaneously Poros (“path”) & Tekmor (“end post, ordinance”). Poros is related to the end of all things.
Later, in the Orphic cosmogony, first came Thesis, whose ineffable nature is unexpected. Ananke (“necessity”) is the primeval goddess of inevitability who is entwined with the time-god Chronos, at the very beginning of time. They represented the cosmic forces of Fate & Time. They were sometimes called to control the fates of the gods. The 3 Moirai are daughters of Ananke.
In the Theogony of Hesiod, the 3 Moirai are personified as the daughters of Nyx & are acting the gods. Later they were daughters of Zeus & Themis, who was the embodiment of divine order & law. In Pluto’s Republic, the 3 Fates are daughters of Ananke (necessity).
The Moirai were supposed to appear 3 nights after a kid’s birth to determine the course of its life. At Sparta, the Temple to the Moirai stood near the communal hearth of the polis. Polis means “city” in Ancient Greek.
As the goddesses of birth who even prophesied the fate of the newly born, Elieithyia, the ancient Minoan goddess of childbirth & divine midwifery, was their companion.
The Erinyes, a group of chthonic goddesses of vengeance, served as tools of the Moirai. Chthonic means concerning, belonging to, or inhabiting the underworld. They inflicted punishment for evil deeds, particularly upon those who sought to avoid their rightful destiny. The Morai were confused with the Erinyes, as well as the death-goddesses, the Keres.
In earlier times, they were pictured as only a few, or perhaps only 1, individual goddess Homer’s Illiad speaks generally of the Moira, who spins the thread of life for men at their birth. She’s Moria Krataia, “powerful Moira,” or there are several Moirai.
In the Odyssey, there’s a reference to the Klothes, or spinners. At Delphi, only the Fates of Birth & Death were revered. In Athens, Aphrodite was called Aphrodite Urania, the “eldest of the Fates.”
In the older myths, they’re daughters of primeval beings like Nyx (“night”) in Theogony, or Ananke in Orphic cosmogony.
The Moirai could be placated as goddesses. Brides in Athens offered them locks of hair, & women swore by them. They may have originated as a birth goddesses & only later their reputation as the agents of destiny. The Moirai were also credited to be the inventors of 7 Greek letters – A, B, H, I, T, & Y.
The Fates had at least 3 known temples: Ancient Corinth, Sparta, & Thebes. The temple in Sparta was situated next to the grave/tomb of Orestes.
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#7thCenturyBC #Alcman #Allotter #Ananke #AncientGreek #Aphrodite #AphroditeUrania #Athens #Atropos #Chronos #Chtonic #Clotho #Corinth #Dante #DanteSInferno #Death #Decima #Delphi #Destiny #Dike #Disney #DivineComedy #Eirene #Elieithyia #Eunomia #Fate #Fates #Grave #Greek #GreekMythology #Hesiod #Homer #HymnOfTheFates #Illiad #Institutor #Klothes #Lachesis #Macbeth #Midwifery #Moerae #MoiraKrataia #Moirai #Morta #Nemesis #Night #Nona #Nyx #Odyssey #Orestes #Orphic #Parcae #Pindar #Plato #Polis #Poros #Pregnancy #Prophetesses #Purgatorio #Republic #Roman #Seirenes #Shakespeare #Shears #SleepingBeauty #Sparta #Spindle #Spinner #Spinners #Tekmor #Thanatos #TheErinyes #TheHours #TheKeres #TheMoira #TheMoirae #Thebes #Themis #Theogony #Thesis #ThreeWitches #Time #Titaness #tomb #WeirdSisters #Zeus
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The rise in #gestational #diabetes in part to excess maternal folate levels, due to the dual impact of folic acid (FA, or synthetic folate) in food fortification and higher-than-recommended supplementation doses during #pregnancy.
#Medical #NutritionalScience #sflorg
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1. https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Women-with-Disabilities-and-Special-Needs-Guideline.pdf
2. https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/7/7/e016757
3. https://rcm.org.uk/blog/2025/06/improving-maternity-care-and-support-for-pregnant-women-with-disabilities/
4. https://birthrights.org.uk/factsheets/disability-and-long-term-health-conditions-and-maternity-care/
5. https://criplife.co.uk/pregnancy-and-disability-ensuring-inclusive-maternity-care-for-prospective-disabled-mothers/
6. https://www.ableize.com/health-and-fitness/pregnancy-and-parenthood/I guess obstretics is My New Thing.
#maternity #pregnancy #ObGyn #Obstetrics #pregnant #nativity #disabled #DisabledJoy #DisabledFedi #disability #MedMastodon #med #meds #medicine #medical
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https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Women-with-Disabilities-and-Special-Needs-Guideline.pdf "Appendix 1: MOTHERS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES GUIDANCE TOOL
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Value family – Involve individuals who best know the woman with learning disabilities as they can provide additional information that may be helpful to the decision-making process.
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Avoid making assumptions – Do not assume that because someone has a diagnosis of a learning disability that they cannot be good enough parents
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Look for support – Professionals should not work in isolation and should involve learning disability services for further support and guidance.
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Understand emotions – Take into consideration that many mothers with learning disabilities have their own anxieties and worries about motherhood and fear of judgment. Do not assume they are being difficult.
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Establish reasonable adjustments – Professionals should put reasonable adjustments into place to ensure women with learning disabilities can comprehend and understand information to give informed consent. I.E. easy read, pictorials, large font, visual and hearing aids.M
Mental Capacity – Do not assume capacity. In liaison with the Mental Capacity Act 2005, professionals should consider completing a Mental Capacity Assessment (MCA) to establish whether the women can give informed consent. Professionals should also consider best interest, Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) and involving an Independent Mental Capacity Advocate (IMCA).
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Efficient discharge – Professionals should consider possible support that can be put into place to ensure a person-centered discharge is consolidated. Consider, access to health and additional services, transport, financial support and accommodation.THINK... VALUE ME"
#maternity #pregnancy #ObGyn #Obstetrics #pregnant #nativity #disabled #DisabledJoy #DisabledFedi #disability #MedMastodon #med #meds #medicine #medical
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Omfg. Read section 3.4 "Learning Disabilities support" on page 5. Literally everyone will be helped by these suggestions, not just diagnosed disabled people.
https://www.mkuh.nhs.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Women-with-Disabilities-and-Special-Needs-Guideline.pdf
"3.4 Learning Disabilities support
Although 7% of people with learning disabilities become parents ( Best Beginnings) the Equality Act 2010 obligates responsibility to service providers to ensure that reasonable adjustments are put into place to ensure the holistic needs of people with learning disabilities are met to the highest standards.
Remember to think VALUE ME! (Appendix 1)1. Early intervention strategies should be considered. Ensure that the community midwife is involved and if they are under 20 consider discussion with the specialist teenage pregnancy midwife for additional support.
2. Professionals should ensure that adequate time is provided for consultations, appointments and formal discussions. Taking time to allow the woman to understand the information in
order to make an informed decision.
3. Professionals should ensure that reasonable adjustments are put into place to aid with understanding. Including: easy read, pictorials, large font, visual and hearing aids.
4. Abilities led practice rather than inabilities led practice. Professionals should avoid making assumptions based on a diagnosis of a learning disability as often mothers will have their own anxieties, fears and worries regarding motherhood.
5. Avoid assuming that mothers are being difficult. Consider other possible reasons such as the environment, loud noises, bright lights (especially if they have a dual diagnosis of learning disability and ASD), sensory needs, stress and anxiety. Provide a side room if possible."#maternity #pregnancy #ObGyn #Obstetrics #pregnant #nativity #disabled #DisabledJoy #DisabledFedi #disability #MedMastodon #med #meds #medicine #medical
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Yale School of Medicine: COVID-19 Vaccines Not Linked to Miscarriage. “There is no association between the COVID-19 vaccine and miscarriage, a new Obstetrics and Gynecology study confirms. COVID-19 poses significant risks to pregnant women, but vaccination rates among this population remain low. Using data from the Vaccine Safety Datalink (VSD)—a collaborative network between the Centers […]
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Zachary Levi Expecting First Baby With Girlfriend Maggie Keating
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CW: Teilakt
Kaja, #Kiel 2019
Tintype (Kollodium Nassplatte auf Aluminium) mit 13×18cm FKD Kamera und Voigtländer Euryscop N°1 von 1882#Babybauch #schwanger #Schwangerschaft #Akt #nude #Teilakt #Babybump #Bellybump #Pregnancy #pregnant #Portrait #Portraitfotografie #Portraitphotography #Photography #Tintype #Wetplate #Kollodium #KollodiumNassplatte #analog #AnalogPhotography
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#Oropouche Virus (OROV) in #Pregnancy: An Emerging Cause of #Placental & #Fetal #Infection Associated with #Stillbirth & #Microcephaly following Vertical Transmission, Viruses: https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/16/9/1435
This communication examines biology, epidemiology, & clinical features of #OROV, summarizes the 2023–24 epidemic, & describes reported cases of vertical transmission & #congenital infection, fetal death, and #microcephaly in pregnant women with Oropouche fever,...
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#Republican #PuppyKiller #KristiNoem said she's #proud to “#Support #Babies, #Moms, and #Families,” but her #record shows otherwise.
The #SouthDakota #governor rejected #programs and millions in #federalfunds that would have benefited #parents and #children during #pregnancy. #Critics call her #rhetoric “#AllHatAndNoCattle.”
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #SouthDakota #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #RepublicanParty #ThePartyOfHate
https://www.propublica.org/article/kristi-noem-south-dakota-parents-children-pregnancy-abortion
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“Fetal personhood” activists struggle to maintain the fiction they are neutral on birth control
When asked about their intentions to restrict or protect access to birth control, Republican lawmakers and leaders of the anti-abortion movement will typically point out the fact that there’s no bill currently under consideration explicitly aimed at banning #contraception.
As journalist Jessica Valenti noted in her "Abortion, Every Day" newsletter, the president of Ohio Right to Life mocked a state Democrat who warned of the risk to birth control by saying,
“she can’t cite a piece of legislation that bans contraception … it’s fear-mongering.”Susan B. Anthony #Pro-#Life #America’s website calls it a “MYTH” that Republicans want to stop people from getting birth control.
“FACT: No state anywhere has banned birth control,” it says.
And yet taking one big swing to restrict access has never been the strategy of the anti-contraception playbook.
Rather, activists either maintain neutrality on birth control or say nothing while actively working to conflate abortion with birth control and pass laws that redefine life as beginning at conception.
As journalist Christina Cauterucci pointed out at Slate, the anti-abortion group #Americans #United #for #Life claims on its website that it takes “no stance on the underlying issue of contraceptive use,”
but elsewhere it insists that people who use emergency contraception
“take the lives of their unborn children.”When Mother Jones reporter Kiera Butler attended the annual conference of the anti-abortion group #Heartbeat #International in 2022, she found restriction of birth control to be a major theme, with several sessions dedicated to the topic.
The push to redefine the start of #personhood as the point of #conception holds real implications for fertility treatments and the wide range of available birth control methods.
Many lawmakers in states with such “fetal personhood” laws on the books have not fully grappled with the practical consequences of how enforcing those laws in the post-Roe era might work.
In the near future, most Republicans will likely continue to dismiss the idea that there’s any threat to birth control at all, and leaders of anti-abortion organizations will surely do their best to change the subject.
But ♦️pay attention to how fights over expanding access to birth control
— including nonhormonal methods like condoms
— play out.♦️Pay attention to proposals to gut funding for #TitleX, a federal program that provides birth control to millions of low-income people in the United States.
♦️Pay attention to efforts in Congress to restrict access to contraception in foreign aid spending bills.
♦️And pay attention to how courts and lawmakers aim to expand the definition of abortion.
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https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Human #Life #International #IUDs #Students #for #Life #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene #PlanB #Lauren #Boebert #Matt #Rosendale #Pulse #Life #Advocates #Tea #Party #Catholic #Church #Hobby #Lobby #Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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In rationalizing the idea that 😨birth control can somehow abort a pregnancy before a pregnancy begins😨, activists make a number of claims.
#Human #Life #International, a global Catholic group, maintains that anything that prevents implantation is an abortion-inducing agent.
#IUDs, they insist, cause “early abortions.”
#Students #for #Life of America likewise claims all forms of hormonal birth control, including IUDs and the Pill, are abortifacients.
Georgia Republican Rep. #Marjorie #Taylor #Greene went so far as to proclaim that #PlanB emergency contraception “kills a baby in the womb once a woman is already pregnant” even though studies have shown the drug interferes with ovulation but does not inhibit implantation.
Greene isn’t the only Republican lawmaker blurring the lines.
Colorado Rep. #Lauren #Boebert tried to block funds for “abortifacient contraceptive drugs,” while Montana Rep. #Matt #Rosendale tried adding emergency contraception to a bill barring use of the federal funding for abortion.
In 2022, in perhaps one of the most glaring examples, Missouri Republicans pushed unsuccessfully to restrict public funding for IUDs and emergency contraception, with one of the state senators who led it proclaiming that “life begins at conception,” and “anything that destroys that life is abortion, it’s not birth control.”
Just this past week in Iowa, House Republicans attempted to amend a bipartisan bill to legalize over-the-counter birth control by adding new language that would require pharmacists to provide misleading and inaccurate information implying contraceptives are dangerous and a form of abortion.
#Pulse #Life #Advocates, an Iowa group opposing the contraception bill, claims on its website that birth control “kills babies.”
Many of these objections will sound familiar to anyone who followed the fight around the Affordable Care Act 15 years ago.
The political groundwork was laid in 2010 when the #Tea #Party movement came into power and fought alongside the #Catholic #Church against requirements that employer health insurance plans cover birth control.
And in 2014, the retail chain #Hobby #Lobby won its case before the US Supreme Court in which it argued it shouldn’t have to provide employees with IUDs or emergency contraception since its ownership viewed such things as abortion.
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https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
#Roe #Marsha #Blackburn #Mike #Braun #Griswold #Roe #Dobbs #Clarence #Thomas #Blake #Masters #Birth #control #Pregnancy #implantation #implantation #conception #birth #IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
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The political playbook for attacking birth control shares some similarities with the playbook for attacking abortion
— a slow and steady chipping away of rights and access.Both efforts rely on measures like slashing funding for low-income patients, enacting parental consent laws to restrict minors’ use, and empowering ideologically supportive lawmakers and judges who push friendly legal frameworks.
But the major difference between pushing to restrict abortion access and pushing to restrict birth control is that leaders are typically much quieter about their goals for the latter, aware that open discussion will prompt fierce backlash.
They typically try to paint those who suggest they’d take aim at contraception as alarmists and conspiracists.
When Democrats in Congress introduced a bill to codify access to birth control following the overturn of #Roe, for example, they were met with emphatic performances of exasperation.
“This bill is completely unnecessary. In no way, shape, or form is access to contraception limited or at risk of being limited,” declared Florida Republican Rep. Kat Cammack during debate on the House floor.
“The liberal majority is clearly trying to stoke fears and mislead the American people.”
Still, a growing number of Republican lawmakers
— including Sens. #Marsha #Blackburn and #Mike #Braun
— have recently declared that ♦️Griswold v. Connecticut♦️, the 1965 Supreme Court decision establishing a constitutional right to birth control, was wrongly decided.#Griswold relies on the same legal right to privacy that underpinned #Roe, and in his concurring #Dobbs v. Jackson opinion in 2022, Justice #Clarence #Thomas encouraged the Supreme Court to “reconsider” Griswold and other privacy-related decisions.
Former Arizona Senate candidate #Blake #Masters went so far as to pledge to “vote only for federal judges who understand that Roe and Griswold” should be overturned.
Leaders more than occasionally reveal their underlying beliefs.
Recent statements, as well as recent actions from reproductive rights opponents, have sent clear reminders about how some influential activists really think about contraception:
that it’s just another form of abortion.Activists aim to blur the line between birth control and abortion
Anti-abortion leaders tend to take advantage of one basic fact about the American people:
There is great confusion about how pregnancy works, how abortion pills end it, and how birth control and emergency contraception (such as Plan B) prevent it.For example, one recent poll found that a stunning 73 percent of Americans think emergency contraception can end a pregnancy.
But among most medical experts, including those at the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
— there is no confusion.#Birth #control, including emergency contraception, prevents ovulation (when an egg is released) and fertilization (when egg and sperm meet).
#Pregnancy begins when a fertilized egg attaches to the lining of the uterine wall, a process called #implantation.
Many fertilized eggs never implant.
Yet for a highly motivated wing of the anti-abortion movement, pregnancy starts not at #implantation but at #conception,
and human personhood begins then too, not at #birth.
👉These “fetal personhood” activists want to endow fetuses, embryos, and fertilized eggs with full rights and legal protections and thus frame any effort to prevent implantation
— be it through discarding embryos from IVF or taking a daily birth control pill
— as a form of killing unborn children.It’s a stretch of scientific consensus, but certain Christian activists have long clung to this idea and have slowly been codifying it in state law through bills that claim "human life begins at conception".
More than a third of states currently have such laws on the books.
To blur the line between abortion and contraception, many of these activists call birth control methods “abortifacients”
— agents that induce abortion.♦️But this is misleading because there’s no pregnancy to abort. ♦️
Real abortifacients are the medications that end pregnancies, namely misoprostol and mifepristone.
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#IVF #Alabama #disgusting #Joseph #Scheidler #Randall #Terry
https://www.vox.com/24087411/anti-abortion-roe-dobbs-birth-control-contraception-ivf
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Call the midwife! No matter how bad you’ve heard care can be, ‘freebirthing’ is not the answer
https://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/other/call-the-midwife-no-matter-how-bad-you-ve-heard-care-can-be-freebirthing-is-not-the-answer/ar-BB1ivVvC?cvid=a0de1504be334080ff16eca539442e57&ocid=winp2fptaskbarhover&ei=8#Midwifery
#Freebirthing
#HomeBirths
#NationalChildbirthTrust
#NCT
#RoyalCollegeOfMidwives
#Understaffing
#BirthCentres
#BirthTrauma
#Trauma
#PTSD
#MaternalDeaths
#Pregnancy
#Childbirth
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What It Takes to #ClawBack #AbortionRights in #Court
Any day now, the #Texas #SupremeCourt is expected to issue its #ruling on #ZurawskiVStateofTexas, the first-of-its-kind #legalchallenge brought forward last year by 20 #women who say that they were #denied #abortioncare in the face of #severe and #dangerous #pregnancy #complications.
https://www.thecut.com/article/zurawski-v-texas-and-clawing-back-abortion-rights-in-court.html
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Kaja, Kiel 2019
#Babybauch
Tintype (Kollodium Nassplatte auf Aluminium) mit 13×18cm FKD Kamera und Voigtländer Euryscop N°1 von 1882 #Fotografie #Photography #Portraitphotography #Portraitfotografie #Kollodium #Wetplate #CollodionWetplate #analog #analogphotography #pregnancy #FamilyPhotography #Familienfotografie
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Teenage pregnancy is a big issue worldwide, including in Ghana.More than 100,000 girls there drop out of school every year to have a baby.But a government pr...
Teenage pregnancy: Back-to-school encouragement in Ghana -
Exposure to per- and #polyfluoroalkyl substances ( #PFAS ) during #pregnancy was linked to slightly higher body mass indices and an increased risk of #obesity in #children
#Environmental #Biology #Health #sflorg
https://www.sflorg.com/2023/06/en06072302.html