Not all mothers bare milk. Some mothers and/or babies can't nurse for health reasons. Some babies are taken from their mothers for a variety of reasons. Working mothers only get 4-12 weeks paid time off depending on insurance coverage, IF they've been with their company more than 1 year. Only companies with more than 100 employees are mandated to have nursing rooms to pump.
My son was born 10 lbs 8 oz and a very hungry boy. By two weeks old he would have starved if I didn't supplement.
Been following this topic for decades. Decided March 2021 was my best shot to build the house I'm planning to live in for the rest of my life (expecting about 45 more years based on family history). Lumber prices be damned. Got the build close enough to done to lock in my interest rate for the new mortgage loan the Friday before the Tuesday first Fed interest rate increase. Also managed to keep the planned monthly payment 1/4 under budget with all the extra amenities. (I had a strategy to start with a base plan at 1/2 the cost of where I wanted to end, knowing how projects always overrun). Closed my last credit card in 2003.
Prior to Covid I had never been more than 2 weeks in between jobs. Had a contract end coincidentally when SHTF. The stars aligned and I got hired into my current consultant position 3 weeks into the first lockdowns. In my field it's best to move about every two years to keep up with market pay increases.
Been stockpiling all the things for about the last 15 years, so only a few minor additions in the next few months before it turns "bad". (My husband has a sunflower seed habit, and sunflowers need a lot of fertilizer. Planning to get a 2-3 yr supply for his consumption rate.)
That said, let the inflation and vaxxed-purge come. We're ready to survive it.
"Keep Austin Weird" lol
Gauranteed there was a joint and a $100 bet in that decision with his buddies.
Agreed. Genetically modified is only an issue when they deliberately make it less nutritious in the name of hardiness for greed. Tomatoes and corn are problematic, but I sure like plums, apricots, bananas, and nectarines, which wouldn't otherwise exist. Chiquitas are a far cry from bananas up until 1950. Am I going to stop putting a fat slice of beefsteak tomato on my sub sandwich?--No. It's not there for health, lol. Those three slices a week does not a balanced diet make.
Cigarettes weren't near as bad as they are now after Obama federally mandated extra chemicals to make them "burn out" if not smoked fast enough to save idiots from falling asleep drunk and burning their house down. Haven't tasted the same since.
I need a claymation Celebrity Death Match for this mash-up.
It's always somebody's body and somebody's choice.
I can't watch 9 minutes of delicious conspiracy video with my MSM-junkie husband nearby, but $9 mil to Wisconsin is known, yeah?
"2 more weeks"
Until it's used as precedent to no longer abide by a right to bodily autonomy and privacy. (It's just high capacity magazines...)
That was a good read. I'll place my bet on October 4, right after end of quarter.
Yes. Shedders.
I have an IUD. Prior to July 2021 I hadn't had a period in 6 years. At the time, I was required to go into my office every other Thursday. When the company mandated jabs or get fired, I'd start feeling sick around 2 pm, headache, fatigue, brain fog. By every other Friday afternoon, I had a heavy period, every two weeks until mid-October. A few weeks after Texas Gov Abbot executive ordered no mandatory vaccines, the company for which I consult backed off requiring eveyone in the office from getting jabbed. As a consultant, I managed to escape the mandate, but not unscathed. Masks don't work to prevent inhaling that shit, and one can't avoid using a communal area like the bathroom where it's aersoled with every flush. Being period-on for a week every two weeks is frustrating as hell. My ivermectin was held up at the Mexico border until it was too late for me. Thankfully, I'm already done with having more children, watching so many others stillbirth has been excruciating as a mother.
My husband uses FB a lot, mostly marketplace. He just got off his third ban-hammer for a meme he had posted 19 months ago and was only now, suddenly a problem on which to be disciplined.
This one effectively said, "Fauci says to stop handshakes. Dahmar: Stops blender".
I respect your right to say this, and I agree with the sentiment, but please use "overwhelming majority of women". ;)
Also... the overwhelming majority of women, are bad drivers and can't throw a baseball.
The first thing I'll do is make sure the 4 yo meets his grandmother. It's heartbreaking. (no pun intended)
I've mentioned you rock, yeah? Really like your comments.
Thus, by targeting a specific cell population, such as tumour cells, these nanochips could be used for their selective destruction, without affecting other cells.
Add this to the list of, "will be ready in 5-10 years" that never happens. Still waiting on that Cuban lung cancer cure and male birth control.
I see consequences long before most people too.
Maybe it was honed by my attempts as a child to read my parents minds and not get hit again today for unexpected reasons and unsaid rules.
Maybe it was expanded by working the bars in my teens and twenties. Guessing correctly every night which poor sap would go home with which butter face when the lights came on.
Maybe it was the political traps of my young career being used as a stepping stone and scape goat for others climbing the ladder.
Maybe it's the blindsiding financial quagmires of four, five, six crises occurring in parallel as an adult.
The world is full of evil people who do it deliberately, and stupid people who are clueless to the impacts of their actions. I just try my best to either avoid or combat their behaviors before my consequence becomes inevitable. I have a keen sense of liars and an excellent judge of character. I don't do business with anyone who doesn't call me back. I constantly catch people red-handed in their lies, but it's not worth the effort anymore to call them on it; just move on without them. My friends are few, but my life is rich. Don't dislike yourself.
I'm preparing for the day I have to take in my sister's 3 kids, 2 vaxxed, ages 4, 6, and 9. She almost immediately developed an enlarged liver after the first one and went back for 3 more (qualified as a medical sciences org director in MA. For someone so educated, her lack of critical thinking blows my mind, but she always struggled with wanting to be accepted). She's still fighting it a year later with no discernable improvement. I'm right with it emotionally at this point. My antivax mother will never forgive her for withholding grandchildren the last 2+ years.
This is a great read on the topic for those not already aware. Thanks for sharing.
I guess the moral of the story, as I've always practiced to the best of my ability, is to stay out of crowds.
Hiding in plain sight.
ImBillCurtis, your misogyny is amazing. I bet women who don't spread their legs for a nice guy like you are all bitches, too.
Why can and should work? Because WWII put American women into the workforce and it was a Pandora's box. Blame disparity of the 1%, elite/not-elite, to maintain a quality of life ever since.
Alternatives to soy, yep, agree. There are some formulas that are not soy-based, I happened to like the Costco brand back then. Unfortunately, our society does not know how to make their own formula from powdered milk anymore, becoming a lost skill with each generation. (If the baby can tolerate it. Homemade does not have the vitamin fortification that produced versions have.)
Pump in the bathroom. It is not a sanitary location. I challenge you to have a fragile immune system and eat your meals in an aerosoled feces environment everyday.
Don't make employers accommodate women. Pump at home. Uhmm, no, if you don't extricate the milk every three to four hours you will not only lose the ability to produce milk, you could also get infections, and it's exceptionally uncomfortable and painful. It's true there are women who abuse it. There are many who don't. When I was pumping, I stayed at work an extra hour everyday to compensate for lost time over four 20-minute pump sessions (did one on lunch). = Less time at home with baby.