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https://www.europesays.com/ie/669840/ Maternal illness may reshape fetal brain development through epigenetics #Autism #Brain #Cortex #Éire #flu #Gene #Genes #Genetic #Genome #Health #Hyperactivity #IE #ImmuneResponse #Influenza #Ireland #Neuron #Neurons #Pregnancy #Prenatal #Protein #Psychiatry #Research

Whether or not you decide to have kids is entirely up to you, but it is perfectly normal to have doubts. Many people will try to pressure you into having children, especially your own family. But if you feel that it's not right for you, then you should stick to your guns. There is nothing wrong with being childless. #Antinatalism #ChildFree #Parenting #Pregnancy

In a controlled trial of 215 pregnant Ecuadorean women, the treatment group was provided with a diet that was presumed to conform to ancestral norms from 12 weeks to birth. They also received diet counseling. Ultrasound imaging at four times during pregnancy showed greater growth of subcortical brain structures in fetuses of the treatment group.

https://www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.2602218123

#Science #Nutrition #Diet #ChildDevelopment #Pregnancy

Judge tells jury in Lindsay Clancy trial to keep deliberating after deadlock https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/lindsay-clancy-jury-deliberating #Massachusetts #UsCrime #MentalHealth #UsNews #Pregnancy

Judge tells jury in Lindsay Clancy trial to keep deliberating after deadlock
By Associated Press

Clancy does not deny strangling her three children but says postpartum psychosis led to her actions

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/sep/01/lindsay-clancy-jury-deliberating

#Massachusetts #UScrime #Mentalhealth #USnews #Pregnancy #TheGuardian #AssociatedPress

https://www.europesays.com/ie/666108/ Breastmilk from cannabis users showed differences, but cannabis may not be the whole story #anxiety #appetite #blood #BloodPressure #BreastMilk #Breastfeeding #Cannabinoid #Cannabis #Carbohydrate #Chronic #Depression #diet #Éire #Endocannabinoids #FattyAcids #food #Frequency #GastrointestinalDisease #Health #Healthcare #Hyperactivity #IE #Immunoglobulin #Ireland #Lipids #Lipoprotein #MetabolicSyndrome #Nicotine #Nutrients #Pregnancy #Protein #Research #Stress #Syndrome

Married At First Sight UK star Holly Ditchfield gives birth to 'incredibly strong' twins four months early

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/mafs-uk-holly-gives-birth-37612766

Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo return to Disney+ for second series of Raising Chelsea

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/jamie-laing-sophie-habboo-return-37593756

Rural America’s Maternal-Health Crisis Is About to Get Much Worse https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/07/giving-birth-rural-hospitals-danger-mortality/688091/?utm_source=feed #uspoli #TrumpRegime #BlameTrump #BlameGOP #BlameElonMusk #BlameRFKjr #MAHA #pregnancy #RuralHealth #PublicHealth #MaternalHealth

The Pregnancy Complication Series (Part two)

https://theobnp.com/2026/07/26/the-pregnancy-complication-series-part-two/

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

https://www.europesays.com/ie/430905/ Coleen Rooney marks 40th with Wayne at Aintree with ‘personalised balloons’ and ‘guards at the door’ #Aintree #AshleyJames #BirthdayParty #Celebrities #CelebrityStyle #ColeenRooney #CoronationStreet #DanielleLloyd #Éire #Emmerdale #Entertainment #GabrielleAllen #GrandNational #IanRush #IE #Ireland #KyleWalker #LoveIsland #MayfairLtd #MichaelOwen #Pregnancy #RealityShows #ScarlettMoffatt #SoapOperas #TheOnlyWayIsEssex

https://www.europesays.com/uk/886919/ Coleen Rooney marks 40th with Wayne at Aintree with ‘personalised balloons’ and ‘guards at the door’ #Aintree #AshleyJames #BirthdayParty #Celebrities #CelebrityStyle #ColeenRooney #CoronationStreet #DanielleLloyd #Emmerdale #Entertainment #GabrielleAllen #GrandNational #IanRush #KyleWalker #LoveIsland #MayfairLtd #MichaelOwen #Pregnancy #RealityShows #ScarlettMoffatt #SoapOperas #TheOnlyWayIsEssex #UK #UnitedKingdom

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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Mediterranean-style diet benefits maternal and infant health

Two new studies from the University of Barcelona (UB) have found that a Mediterranean-style diet, rich in…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #mediterranean #MediterraneanDiet #MediterraneanFood #FlindersUniversity #folate #folicacid #gestationaldiabetes #MaternalHealth #Mediterranean #Pregnancy #UniversityofAdelaide #UniversityofBarcelona
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2321797/mediterranean-style-diet-benefits-maternal-and-infant-health/

Mediterranean-style diet benefits maternal and infant health

Two new studies from the University of Barcelona (UB) have found that a Mediterranean-style diet, rich in fibre, vegetable proteins and hea…
#dining #cooking #diet #food #MediterraneanDiet #FlindersUniversity #folate #folicacid #gestationaldiabetes #MaternalHealth #Mediterranean #Pregnancy #UniversityofAdelaide #UniversityofBarcelona
https://www.diningandcooking.com/2321797/mediterranean-style-diet-benefits-maternal-and-infant-health/

That is the sum total of this #misogynistic #POTUS. This #criminal #administration wants #women to #suffer. Inflicting #pain is their only #agenda. We've seen this with #DOGE #hoodlums, #ICE #thugs and #antiabortion rulings. Women don't have an independent existence in their world.
#impeach #TraitorMAGA #TraitorGOP #opposeGOP #antiAmerican #corrupt #health #pregnancy #autism

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckgym44gy24o

Women who had gestational diabetes mellitus in pregnancy face an increased risk of cardiovascular diseases #CVD, in part because of subsequent type 2 diabetes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34764208

#GestationalDiabetes #Pregnancy #WomensHealth #HeartHealth #Cardiovascular #Diabetes #NICHDimpact