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Not For Sale

Bodies get in the way... • 353 implied HN points • 30 Jul 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Motherhood Surrogacy Breastfeeding Ethics
  1. Mothers for Mother advocates against surrogacy, highlighting that it can exploit vulnerable women and separate babies from their mothers.
  2. The bond between a mother and baby is crucial for a baby's emotional and cognitive development, with surrogacy potentially disrupting this connection.
  3. Surrogacy poses ethical and physiological risks, and laws regarding surrogacy vary widely across different countries.

All That Glitters is Not Gold…

Bodies get in the way... • 334 implied HN points • 07 Jun 23
🏥 Health & Wellness Parenting Breastfeeding Mental health
  1. Breastfeeding is a natural process that women are inherently capable of, without the need for men to lactate.
  2. Support from men, partners, and wider society is crucial for women to successfully breastfeed their babies.
  3. Artificially producing breast milk in labs or promoting men to breastfeed can harm the mother-baby dyad and ignore the physiological expectations of breastfeeding.

Please stop "vaginal seeding"

Eat Shit and Prosper • 79 implied HN points • 18 Oct 22
🏥 Health & Wellness Microbiome Breastfeeding Gut Health
  1. Vaginal seeding, or swabbing a C-section baby with vaginal bacteria, is not helpful for gut health. Most important gut bacteria actually come from breastmilk, not the birth canal.
  2. C-sections can negatively affect a child's microbiome due to factors like antibiotics and the nature of the surgery. This can lead to gut issues later in life.
  3. Breastfeeding is essential for passing on beneficial gut bacteria, and avoiding unnecessary C-sections and antibiotics can improve a child's microbiome.

Collect Your Covid Cliff Notes

Are You Okay? • 0 implied HN points • 18 Mar 21
🏥 Health & Wellness Vaccination COVID-19 Immunity Pregnancy Breastfeeding
  1. Currently available vaccines (Pfizer, Moderna, Johnson & Johnson) effectively prevent death, hospitalization, and severe disease from COVID-19, transforming it into a milder illness.
  2. The vaccines demonstrate high efficacy in the real world, significantly reducing rates of death, hospitalization, and overall cases.
  3. Vaccines work well against current variants, especially when wide vaccination coverage is achieved; masking and distancing are still important, even for vaccinated individuals.
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