[boyphobic]

[schweinchenpig]

How do you know what you want.

[contourkit-deactivated20160224]

What if everything gets better in 2016

[cheese-sample-official]

[schweinchenpig]

I hate being on the internet and seeing something and halfway through realising it's just an ad.

No you don't want to show me your morning. You want me to click on your link.

[littledragonkana]

Komisches Brot.

[clubcope]

[schweinchenpig]

The post about pregnancy risks really made me realize that I can't comprehend that I gave birth.

Like idk it's like one moment there was just panic and noone knew if I would survive and when I woke up from surgery I had an abdominal scar and a child.

But. It doesn't feel like I gave birth. I wasn't present. Mentally.

Physically yes. But idk.

Does that count as a diary entry lol

[marimoes]

Thinking about how people say we shouldn't tell women the horrors of childbirth because it'll scare them and discourage them from having children and well, isn't that just arguing against informed consent?

[goblinous]

Fascinating how ingrained it is that women shouldn't warn each other about negative experiences with pregnancy and childbirth, to the point where most comments/reblogs maliciously misinterpreted "tell women the horrors of childbirth" as specifically meaning "tell pregnant women exaggerated gruesome stories to scare them". The whole point of "informed consent" is to warn women before they get pregnant. If a woman is hearing "scary stories" (accounts of actual women's experiences) for the first time when she's 5 months along, something has gone wrong.

There's also a lot of full-on tradwife type responses, people talking about how women's bodies are "made for" childbirth, how it's "natural" and that means talking about side-effects is an insult to our "inner strength", or conversly how medical science is so advanced now that side effects/mortality are basically a non-issue (never mind the rates of urinary incontinence after givjng birth). Some bring up certain side effects being preventable, as if there's a real way to guarantee you'll have a medical team that actually bothers to prevent them. There's also the argument that childbirth being common means it's safe.

Ultimately the contradictory mess of arguments all stem from the same fact: it's taboo to warn women about the effects of pregnancy and childbirth. It's taboo for women to talk to each other about our own experiences, especially if those experiences contradict social narratives about our "purpose".

[marimoes]

Thank you for your thoughtful response and also for acknowledging some of the frankly bizarre responses to it. The most egregious one I couldn't even respond to because they blocked me immediately after replying.

People in the reblogs presume to know what I mean when I say 'horrors' and assume I'm talking about things everyone knows, that it's painful, or that I'm advocating for scaring the shit out of already pregnant women.

Anyway, I just want to reiterate what I said in another reblog, faecal incontinence is unfortunately common after childbirth and most people don't know that. Sure, it's widely known that you can defecate from the pushing during the birth, but I don't think most people know that somewhere from 4-6% of women experience long-term/permanent faecal incontinence. That's what prompted me to make this post, that's what I'm talking about

[gayvampyr]

me after a minor inconvenience: i hope i get hit by a [remembers i’m anti car-centric infrastructure] pedestrian

[anxiouslyliquidcurse]

i hate insecure people who dont keep it to themselves. stop spreading your disease!! you give people something new to worry about every time you open your mouth

[omegaversereloaded]

Age regressing to 22

[miggylol]

Spin the wheel. That's who's trying to kill you.

Spin the wheel again. That’s who’s trying to protect you.

(If you have zero idea about a name you got, spin until you see someone you recognize.)

Are you safe?

Absolutely not. I'm dead. 100% dead.

I might stay alive, but it'll be a really close thing.

I'll take some hits, for certain, but I should be okay in the end.

A few attacks might get through, but nothing concerning.

The attacker might be able to get in one lucky hit. If that.

I am the opposite of worried. I'm 100% safe.

…Look. I've tried picturing this. But I honestly don't know how to answer.

Voting ended onJul 14

(I've run this poll twice before, expanding it significantly for the second run. With about a year passed since that second run, I thought it was time to add another couple hundred names to the list and have another go.)

[justme--48]

27

[byjove]

Creationism and Christian fundamentalism feeds into the medical skepticism we are seeing in the U.S. and, once again, the main victims of phenomenon like vaccine hesitancy will be children who are helplessly dependent on their adult caregivers.

Infants are given a vitamin k shot at birth because they cannot synthesize vitamin k or get it from their diets, it is vital in preventing vitamin deficient bleeding which can cause death or permanent brain damage. Administering the injection is a bog standard preventative measure done on newborns immediately after birth, usually automatically. More and more parents are denying it and more and more babies are having totally preventable complications in their first 6 months of life just because the vitamin k shot has a black box warning. Doctors are repeatedly trying to explain to parents that babies need vitamin k and parents just keep asking “Why? Why are babies born needing vitamin k? Humans survived for thousands of years before it was invented. This must be a conspiracy.”

Infants, the human life stage notorious for randomly dying with no easily discernible cause. I don’t say that to be flippant, human babies are so incredibly fragile that before the modern era, about half of them died before adulthood. That is a natural 50/50 of making it. Humans did not evolve to be perfectly designed and efficient, we are just functional enough for some of us to survive to adulthood and reproduce. We don’t have to live like that! Looking at the human body through the lens of infallible intelligent design and allowing that to inform your medical decisions is so fucking dangerous.

If you believe God created us, you must know he created us to be imperfect, he created us to be imperfect so we could have the pleasure of discovery and progress and improvement and repentance and growth and learning, he did not create human infants capable of synthesizing their own vitamin k but he created humans intelligent and driven and loving enough to want to ensure that the majority of children make it to adulthood.

[liketolaugh-writes]

The Creationist insistence that babies and especially childbirth have been optimized somehow is maddening. It's the number one sign that someone does not know the first goddamn thing about the history of medicine.

"Well if childbirth is so dangerous, how did humans survive so long?"

Because 1 in 100 is not an extinction-level rate of maternal mortality, next question.

"What do you think people did before Vitamin K shots if babies are so vulnerable?"

Infant mortality was 16.5% in 1900 and even higher before that, next question.

"Women have been giving birth for thousands of years, don't you think they know how to do it by now?"

Women have been dying in childbirth for thousands of years, next question.

They just have no goddamn clue how bad things used to be. It's such a spoiled, ignorant perspective. And when they do acknowledge the difference, they claim it's because of hygiene, not 'modern medicine.' Don't even get me started on childhood vaccines.

[unfug-bilder]

RIP Bonnie

[schweinchenpig]

God he is such a gassy baby

[schweinchenpig]

Merz versaut echt alles☹️

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