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December 24th, 2013 | #1 |
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#1 Pregnancy Thread
Study: Eating Peanuts While Pregnant May Prevent Allergies in Children
Dec 24, 2013 A new study says pregnant women who eat peanuts are less likely to have a child with a peanut allergy. About 1-in-50 kids have peanut allergies, and they can be deadly. Because of that, some moms fear exposing their babies to peanuts while they're in the womb. A new study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Pediatrics looking at more than 8,000 children found the more peanuts a woman eats during her pregnancy, the less likely her child is to have a peanut allergy. Researchers say women who ate five servings of peanuts a week saw the biggest benefit. Researchers are calling for more studies before encouraging a peanut-heavy diet. http://www.wbay.com/story/24297496/2...es-in-children |
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March 5th, 2014 | #3 |
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home births continue to rise
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March 6th, 2014 | #4 |
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Women considering natural childbirth, home births, or at birth center should consider looking into getting a doula to help them with both emotional and physical needs during and after pregnancy.
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March 13th, 2014 | #5 |
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[Camille Paglia on sex education concealing the facts about fertility]
Put the Sex Back in Sex Ed Camille Paglia 7:02 AM ET Grant Cornett for TIME When public schools refuse to acknowledge gender differences, we betray boys and girls alike Fertility is the missing chapter in sex education. Sobering facts about women’s declining fertility after their 20s are being withheld from ambitious young women, who are propelled along a career track devised for men. The refusal by public schools’ sex-education programs to acknowledge gender differences is betraying both boys and girls. The genders should be separated for sex counseling. It is absurd to avoid the harsh reality that boys have less to lose from casual serial sex than do girls, who risk pregnancy and whose future fertility can be compromised by disease. Boys need lessons in basic ethics and moral reasoning about sex (for example, not taking advantage of intoxicated dates), while girls must learn to distinguish sexual compliance from popularity. Above all, girls need life-planning advice. Too often, sex education defines pregnancy as a pathology, for which the cure is abortion. Adolescent girls must think deeply about their ultimate aims and desires. If they want both children and a career, they should decide whether to have children early or late. There are pros, cons and trade-offs for each choice. Unfortunately, sex education in the U.S. is a crazy quilt of haphazard programs. A national conversation is urgently needed for curricular standardization and public transparency. The present system is too vulnerable to political pressures from both the left and the right–and students are trapped in the middle. Currently, 22 states and the District of Columbia mandate sex education but leave instructional decisions to school districts. Sex-ed teachers range from certified health educators to volunteers and teenage “peer educators” with minimal training. That some instructors may import their own sexually permissive biases is evident from the sporadic scandals about inappropriate use of pornographic materials or websites. The modern campaign for sex education began in 1912 with a proposal by the National Education Association for classes in “sexual hygiene” to control sexually transmitted diseases like syphilis. During the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop called for sex education starting in third grade. In the 1990s, sex educators turned their focus to teenage pregnancy in inner-city communities. Sex education has triggered recurrent controversy, partly because it is seen by religious conservatives as an instrument of secular cultural imperialism, undermining moral values. It’s time for liberals to admit that there is some truth to this and that public schools should not promulgate any ideology. The liberal response to conservatives’ demand for abstinence-only sex education has been to condemn the imposition of “fear and shame” on young people. But perhaps a bit more self-preserving fear and shame might be helpful in today’s hedonistic, media-saturated environment. My generation of baby-boom girls boldly rebelled against the cult of virginity of the Doris Day 1950s, but we left chaos in our wake. Young people are now bombarded prematurely with sexual images and messages. Adolescent girls, routinely dressing in seductive ways, are ill-prepared to negotiate the sexual attention they attract. Sex education has become incoherent because of its own sprawling agenda. It should be broken into component parts, whose professionalism could be better ensured. First, anatomy and reproductive biology belong in general biology courses taught in middle school by qualified science teachers. Every aspect of physiology, from puberty to menopause, should be covered. Students deserve a cool, clear, objective voice about the body, rather than the smarmy, feel-good chatter that now infests sex-ed workbooks. Second, certified health educators, who advise children about washing their hands to avoid colds, should discuss sexually transmitted diseases at the middle-school or early-high-school level. But while information about condoms must be provided, it is not the place of public schools to distribute condoms, as is currently done in the Boston, New York and Los Angeles school districts. Condom distribution should be left to hospitals, clinics and social-service agencies. Similarly, public schools have no business listing the varieties of sexual gratification, from masturbation to oral and anal sex, although health educators should nonjudgmentally answer student questions about the health implications of such practices. The issue of homosexuality is a charged one. In my view, antibullying campaigns, however laudable, should not stray into political endorsement of homosexuality or gay rights causes. While students must be free to create gay-identified groups, the schools themselves should remain neutral and allow society to evolve on its own. [nope. if fags raise up, their behavior should be analyzed from a medical point of view, which will find it extremely dangerous] Paglia is the author of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars http://time.com/23054/camille-paglia...ack-in-sex-ed/ Last edited by Alex Linder; March 13th, 2014 at 06:23 PM. |
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A few modern trends worth discussing:
1. All decisions made about pregnancy and birth are based on doctors and hospitals fear of being sued. Decisions are not made based on what is best for the baby and the mother. If there is the slightest risk of something going wrong, the woman is pressured to accept a cascade of interventions. And it is only because the doctor/hospital is afraid of legal liability. 1/2 of all pregnant women are induced and 1/3 of all pregnancies end in cesarean, I do not believe for a second that HALF of all women need to be induced in order to give birth or that there is a valid reason why a third of all women need surgery in order to have a baby. And a cesarean may slightly decrease the risks to the present baby, but increases the risks in every future pregnancy that the woman has, with uterine rupture etc. So all it does is transfer the risks from the woman's current birth, onto her next pregnancy and birth. And the inductions are unnecessary and increase the risk of cesarean. Unfortunately it isn't just doctors but midwives as well, I like my midwives a lot but they still try to pressure me into things because if they don't they end up losing their hospital privileges. I have also noticed how hostile some hospitals and doctors are to midwives and have contempt for them. It all leads to the idea that birth is a scary thing and that something bad could happen at any moment, rather than the view that birth is a natural and normal thing. And it has been found that fear is actually the cause of nearly all pain in childbirth as well as slowing progress and causing problems. The obsession with risk is destroying normal birth. Everything we do in life involves risk. 2. The concept of a due date There is really no such thing as a 'due date' and it's a completely man made concept invented so that people can fit babies and births into their neurotic schedules. Women should not have to spend their pregnancies and births fighting with their health care providers. At my hospital for example it is policy for women to schedule an induction at 41 weeks if they don't go into labour by then (in my case they want me to schedule a c-section at 41 weeks because I am a VBAC, which I absolutely refuse to do). A baby will come when he or she is ready. Doctors don't even know when a woman became pregnant, it's all only an estimate, so how can anybody schedule a date that a baby is supposed to come? Any women can be "less pregnant" than she believes she is, and it is best not to mess with nature's plan. 3. The pressure for men to be at the birth This is such a new concept, throughout nearly all of history, birth has been a woman-only event. Western human post-1970s is the only being that has the male present during the female's labour, in all of history, of all peoples and species of animal. Childbirth was always considered to be woman's business. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/ar...rth-child.html Quote:
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I have even spoken with women who scheduled inductions because they could not find somebody willing to be on-call to watch their older child when they go into labour. I always thought, why can't their husband do it?
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The whole thing is messed up, like everything else.
- lying on your back trying to give birth uphill - doctors looking at watches, too interested in forcing things along, doing caesarians - doctors telling women about imaginary dangers, so that every mother thinks she was inches away from having a dead baby - taking the kid away the second its born to give it a bunch of medical shit it doesn't need It's all a bunch of horsehit, like everything else. |
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"I" pregnant. After so many non-whites courting me, i finally was courted by a handsome white european man. 185cm =6'2? Blondish/reddish tone hair, green eyes.
At the age of 32, turning 33, hope I'm not too late. Just have to let mum know (scared) think he knows i could be already. Cheers to the white race! |
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According to the following article, higher educated women tend to drink more alcohol during pregnancy than others. Of course, Moslem females might be taken into the equation which can be misleading, since alcohol isn't available to them. Highly educated women, through having much more expendable income than others, can afford expensive beverages like champagne and other pricey bubbly and not wines. The bubbly wines can be more quantitively consumed much more easily than their counterparts. Nevertheless, most women find alcohol to be repulsive in taste, during pregnancy: https://www.google.nl/search?q=die+z...ng%3B580%3B326 Quote:
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On almost a daily basis there's these pregnancy stories about how x thing will affect pregnancy. I pay little attention to all the competing claims. Eat a decent diet and avoid drugs/alcohol and it should be fine.
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Are you expecting Englisc? Congrats if so
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A drunken mother with 2.6 pro mill just gave birth to an infant sporting 4.5:
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Homemade Baby Wipes
For any expecting VNNers or parents, these will save you a lot of money at about 25 cents a box Boil 2 cups water and let cool. Take paper towels off roll, fold in a continuous V fold, and stack in empty baby wipe containers. 1 roll of paper towels will make 2 containers of wipes. Add 2 tbsp. baby oil or olive oil and 2 tbsp. baby wash to the water. Pour the liquid over the wipes. Close lid. Shake. It will distribute the liquid more easily after you let it sit for a bit.
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