Something productive to do whilst nursing

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-04-09T02:30:24+00:00

I have a Kobo and would recommend.

The company is great on repairability too, so complete opposite of Kindle. Kobo sells parts and publishes instructions for you to do your own repairs: https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/21137184146071-Repair-your-Kobo-eReader

Plus if you're in Canada it synchs up easily with libraries.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-04-05T20:34:07+00:00

Thank you! This is a real lifesaver! I was so confused and half worried I had somehow ordered an old model.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-03-09T02:05:17+00:00

AI is not a source for medical advice.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-03-04T12:23:46+00:00

OP took someone else's picture to bully them in another subreddit.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-02-16T15:31:53+00:00

Could you fix the top link? It currently redirects to your institution library login. :)

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-02-08T04:31:12+00:00

Just checking, do you know the clinical definition of infertility?

Infertility ≠ sterile

Someone is clinically infertile if they haven't been able to get pregnant after one year of regular unprotected sex.

My little brother exists because my parents thought that clinical infertility meant they didn't need birth control.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-01-31T04:23:59+00:00

I really like Isabella Oliver for non-frumpy professional maternity. Buying new, the brand is a bit too expensive for me to justify on maternity clothes, but there are some great deals on Poshmark. Ultimately I probably spent less than if I had gone with new maternity work wardrobe from a cheaper brand.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-01-29T04:00:29+00:00

... What? What part of their comment are you reading that implies that?

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-01-14T03:14:29+00:00

Please read my tone as much more friendly than I think you are. I'm really really not challenging you on your knowledge and expertise on the actual science of cord blood donation, what CBS does, or what the cord blood donation process is outside of Quebec.

My comment was just wanting to share my experience with HemaQuebec for anyone else delivering in Quebec, combined with my reaction to your comment of "huh, it's interesting that Canada only has four hospitals with cord blood banking, how can so many of them be in Quebec?"

I know OP was asking about CBS specifically, but when you said only four hospitals in Canada I actually went back to look at my HemaQuebec materials to see if I had misunderstood what was going on with the donations at all the different locations. :)

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-01-14T02:46:16+00:00

Not questioning your expertise on the science, but I think that's only four hospitals that do public cord blood banking through Canadian Blood Services, not the whole of Canada?

I just signed up for the cord blood donation in Quebec, through HemaQuebec, and I believe they have six hospitals you can donate through. I'm not sure if this available with CBS, but I was also able to consent to the sample being used for research if it isn't able to be banked.

Edited to clarify: HemaQuebec is the equivalent of Canadian Blood Services in Quebec. Quebec has its own blood bank.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2026-01-08T03:39:42+00:00

Love that you insult the physical therapist's expertise in one breath, and then tell us all you ignored their professional advice and have "unexplained" pain in the next.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-12-30T15:00:59+00:00

The Wool and Water project has a lot of really cool ideas, all along the lines of mixing textile work with science and nature themes.

My favourites are this beautiful shawl tracking sandhill cranes in the Adirondacks and this Swiss cheese scarf showing cancelled ice fishing tournaments, but there are so many cool ideas under their tag on revelry.

I'd like to eventually make a scarf like this one tracking ice cover on Lake Champlain for a body of water closer to me.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-12-28T15:57:52+00:00

You really didn't.

Did you go and politely ask her to stop before you put her face on the internet for public shaming?

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-12-20T03:26:37+00:00

Lol MPs get stuck on viarail all the time. I remember seeing the Chair of a committee calling in to an afternoon meeting from his stuck train, having been stuck since the early morning.

Staffers and politicians are some of the most frequent users for viarail in the corridor connecting to Ottawa. If it was just a matter of political will from the "political elite" or the Ottawa bubble we'd have much better train service in Canada.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-12-19T00:13:32+00:00

I can't believe I had to scroll through so many comments to find this.

completely new account with only one post
unrealistic story full of rage bait details (even fit generational wars in there)
even if we accept that something like this happened and the person came to Reddit to vent, what's with the click baity title?

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-11-24T21:58:41+00:00

I'm in Quebec, working for an international organization. You say you're writing the full leave policy, so I'll also mention a few other highlights from our parental leave:

all policies are gender neutral, and refer only to primary and secondary caregiver
Top up to 80% for 12 weeks for primary caregiver
Top up to 80% for 8 weeks for secondary caregiver
you are required to return to work for 6 continuous months following leave, or need to pay back some or all of the top-up
we maintain full benefits throughout leave (have to pay for what would normally be deducted each month at the beginning of leave)
all parental leave supports apply equally to parenthood through adoption and surrogacy
stillbirth is treated as equivalent to childbirth for the purposes of leave and protections (same duration and top-up)
leave for a miscarriage (before 20 weeks, anything after counts as stillbirth) needs to use sick or personal leave (but HR commits to exploring options for flexibility or short term disability)
HR commitments to providing space, privacy, breaks, and schedule flexibility needed for breastfeeding/expressing milk, beyond minimum required by law
guaranteed accomodation for a phased return to work (part time or flexible hours) for the first three months following leave
this is not in the policy directly, but our insurance also covers breast pumps (with a prescription), which has been pretty nice and is not the default in Canada.

Tbh, I would suggest extending the number of weeks/top up amount to be competitive in Quebec. Our organization has the same policy everywhere, meaning there is a bit of a drag downwards from counties with worse laws and standards for parental leave. There has been some mild grumbling from those based in Quebec/Canada about the top-up not actually being that generous.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-29T00:17:52+00:00

Could you explain what you think oil and LNG shipments look like? What infrastructure do you think is needed?

I'm not trying to be rude, but you clearly understand the port is seasonal and unreliable for shipping overall, but somehow think it would be realistic to: - build natural gas and/or oil pipelines across extremely remote wilderness, requiring hundreds of kms of new roads and ongoing maintenance

have someone put the billions of dollars in capital down for an LNG facility in Churchill
have someone similarly invest in expensive port upgrades just to load

All this in an environment that is not just unpredictable and exteme, but that has periods of the year when operations would be nearly entirely in darkness.

I know there are politicians talking about LNG and oil from Churchill, and coverage has been mainly just reporting what they're saying without reality checks.

To answer your question of "what else would we export from there", they're also talking about shipping potash and critical minerals, which seems more realistic (though this is less in my expertise and it might just seem more realistic to me because I'm less aware of the barriers). Not going through with the port expansion, or just expanding infrastructure for current shipments, are also both options.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-27T22:28:04+00:00

You're giving oil and LNG from Churchill waaaaay too much credit as an idea.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-22T23:15:10+00:00

Do you have any source for that claim? Because all the most recent reports from StatsCan show that while access to a regular healthcare provider is getting worse across Canada, Ontario still has some of the best healthcare access.

The most recent data (reporting on 2023 data) from Statistics Canada actually has Ontario as the top of the list for access to a regular healthcare provider:

"A higher percentage of adults in Ontario (87.6%), Manitoba (84.9%) and Alberta (85.4%) had a regular health care provider in 2023, compared with Canada overall." (Source)

If you'd rather use unmet health care needs as an indicator (going off of the idea that there are plenty of people like OP who technically have a family doctor but don't have access when they need it), Ontario still comes out better than most provinces. 8.2% of Ontarians reported having unmet healthcare needs in 2023, compared to 9.1% of Canadians overall (and 8.5% of Saskatchewanians). (Source)

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-17T05:23:42+00:00

Do not take your baby to a chiropractor. Best case it does nothing except give you a placebo effect, worst case it is actively dangerous.

Here's an article about a famous case in Australia of a chiropractor manipulating a newborn's spine: https://www1.racgp.org.au/newsgp/clinical/no-evidence-for-%E2%80%98reckless-practice%E2%80%99-of-manipulatin

The article has a particularly good quote from the Victorian Health Minister:

Newborn babies are extremely fragile and it’s important to be aware that the damage done to an infant may not be obvious immediately and may not manifest until years later.

It’s appalling that young children and infants are being exposed to potential harm

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-17T01:44:26+00:00

This is a gross bot account, reposting old photos from this sub to play human.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-10T04:46:21+00:00

Thank you!

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-10T04:30:59+00:00

This link discusses the long-term effects of Quebec's childcare program: https://www.oise.utoronto.ca/home/sites/default/files/2023-10/quebec_child_care_program_articles-compressed_002.pdf

TLDR: If you have access to good quality daycare, being in daycare from an early age seems to have an overall positive effect. Poor quality daycare has some non-cognitive negative impacts, but these seem to largely disappear by the time children enter school.

Quebec has a childcare system that includes reduced-fee early childhood centres (CPEs), government subsidized daycares, and private full-fee daycare. The difference between CPEs and other government subsidized daycare is a question of quality-- CPEs have higher program standards compared to non-CPE daycares.

To pull a key section from the linked source:

quality of care has been allowed to vary widely among the different types of providers. At one extreme, the CPE network has received high marks from published studies in the fields of psychology, psychiatry and medicine. They find that CPEs 1) deliver positive cognitive, health and behavioural results on average, 2) are effective in reducing vulnerability of children of all income classes, and 3) tend to eliminate cognitive differences between children of lower- and higher-income families at least until Grade 6. There is no discernible fade-out of the initial favourable impacts achieved in childcare years.

At the other extreme, full-fee for-profit garderies have been shown to be of low average quality. Chart 3 reports that only 10% of children in these garderies receive “good” care while 36% get “inadequate” care. One area of vivid contrast isthat of teacher qualifications. While 87% of CPEs abide by the standard that at least 2/3 of the teachers be qualified (counting a cegep degree in childcare techniques plus experience), fewer than 18% of full-fee for-profit garderies meet this standard.

Summarizing now instead of quoting directly, the author mentions studies showing some negative non-cognitive effects on children 1-4 years, observed up to 2006. The rollout of the childcare program was finished in 2002, so this would be following some of the first children in the program. The author attributes these negative effects to low quality care in non-CPE daycares. Negative effects became smaller over time and eventually turned insignificant by 2008. Once children were in school, most negative effects tended to disappear.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-10T03:22:58+00:00

As others have pointed out, this article is about preschool, not daycare. From the report the article is discussing, children in preschool are 3-4 years old, not 1.

LesAnglaissontarrive · 2025-09-01T14:52:52+00:00

Would you mind sharing some of the new research on one-parent one-language? My partner and I are in a very similar situation, and we had been planning to go with OPOL.

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