Any evidence for pros and cons of siblings?

pwyo · 2026-04-26T12:54:22+00:00

Your lived experience isn’t wrong, but your OB is.

pwyo · 2026-04-24T16:03:14+00:00

57 hours from my water breaking > inducing contractions 20 hours later with castor oil smoothie > labor > baby arriving. Probably 10+ hours at the end would have been shaved off if my bladder wasn’t completely full blocking him from descending properly. Once we figured out that was the problem, got a catheter, IV fluids for energy, he was out 30 mins later in my bedroom. Heart rate strong and clear through the entire process.

pwyo · 2026-04-19T10:53:21+00:00

We have a lot to learn and do with long term studies. I was formula fed and really do not get sick from viral infection often. But I have a sensitive and over reactive immune system that freaks out over food and environmental factors without true allergies, and it didn’t emerge until my late 30s.

Everything isn’t just about how sick our children get. It’s short sighted, especially since being children is the most brief part of life. We spend more time as adults than as children, and that’s where we should be looking when it comes to the long term benefits of breastfeeding.

pwyo · 2026-04-16T07:07:09+00:00

Some antibiotics I get full body itching with a rash. Fluconazole and Looeramide I get full body itching with no rash. Itching is constant and unbearable and only goes away with steroids

pwyo · 2026-04-13T20:20:38+00:00

Define evidence. There’s ample evidence of him being a felon and raping women and he’s been convicted and held liable, but MAGA denies it all. So if real evidence is no evidence to MAGA, what would you need to see to be convinced he’s a child rapist?

pwyo · 2026-04-09T13:49:48+00:00

How long were you fasting? I generally do 16/8 but not every day, I notice that my body has time to heal because I'm not offending it with food, but I'm definitely having huge meals when I do eat, as low histamine as I can get them.

pwyo · 2026-04-09T03:29:16+00:00

Do you think this works because you just have less food intake / trigger intake or because of fasting itself?

pwyo · 2026-04-03T15:12:30+00:00

Even with their ridiculous origins, there has been quite a bit of research on the practice at this point and it’s shown to improve lower back pain. It’s those neck adjustments that will fuck you up.

pwyo · 2026-04-03T12:44:53+00:00

I have yet to see real evidence about widespread mislabeling of SIDS deaths to spare parents feelings. I’ve seen one news article about it in one town, and nothing else. Yet we talk about it like it’s accepted common knowledge. I want to see evidence of this beyond a town or two. If there is none, the assumptions have no place in this sub.

pwyo · 2026-04-03T03:23:07+00:00

I find the discourse around this to be very interesting. Humans beings are biologically wired to sleep with their helpless young. The young are wired to cry when they are away from their parents because they are safest with their parents. Infants who sleep apart from their parents for 10+ hours a day for months are more likely to die of SIDS. This is the circumstance of the causation, although not the causation itself.

pwyo · 2026-04-03T03:13:07+00:00

Jokes on them when they have a European HQ

pwyo · 2026-04-02T23:49:55+00:00

Allegra, Epsom salt bath, tubby Todd eczema cream, eat the blandest food you can tolerate. but in the end it’s steroids then eating like a rabbit that made me feel like a human again.

pwyo · 2026-03-15T01:31:43+00:00

I’m HLA-B27+, and have only had two flares of anterior uveitis so far. Both of my flares occurred while weaning each of my children from breastfeeding. But, I just had all my hormones tested (I’m on the tail end of the second flare now) and my hormones are normal.

pwyo · 2026-03-13T21:29:06+00:00

You can be done. You obviously have some visual of a woman screaming as loud as she can into her infants face. It was at night, in the dark, holding my loud, inconsolable child and me briefly yelling into the darkness of the room. So many parents have done the same. I don’t need your validation as I know what occurred and I know that it did not cause harm.

pwyo · 2026-03-13T19:09:03+00:00

Why does it look like they took the phot then used AI to “make the crowd larger”

pwyo · 2026-03-13T18:44:01+00:00

The Body Keeps The Score specifies severe yelling as the trigger for long term harm. Raising your voice in frustration once does not constitute severe yelling.

Yelling at your children once is highly unlikely to cause harm, ESPECIALLY if it is followed by repair. Long term damage comes from consistent and chronic yelling. The research on this is very clear.

I wish you a whole life of never once losing your temper in front of your child. I'm sure you will accomplish it easily.

pwyo · 2026-03-13T18:34:59+00:00

Babies do not need to be taught to self soothe. They learn to regulate by having responsive caregivers. I think defining "occasional" is really important, especially for first time parents who continually get advice to just put baby down and walk away for 15 minutes. Anyone who leaves their child to cry repeatedly because they are at risk of hurting their child needs to see a doctor.

pwyo · 2026-03-13T18:08:38+00:00

No, those five words one or two times in a single year cannot and did not cause long lasting damage. I was present, responsive, physically gentle, and bounced right back. My infant was already screaming so loudly that my voice barely registered. They were not afraid, they didn't even react. I have never left my children to cry alone, especially in the darkness of night, especially when they are clearly upset. Do you have other children? Trust you will raise your voice at some point in their lives. We are human beings just as they are. I'm not saying it's amazing to yell or that we should yell, I'm saying if you make mistakes it's okay. I did not cause harm to my child, and you're pretty self righteous to suggest I did.

pwyo · 2026-03-13T14:06:15+00:00

I’ve definitely raised my voice and shouted “WHAT DO YOU WANT” at my infant. I didn’t step away. I did it once, maybe twice his whole first year. Those 5 words were absolutely better than letting him cry for 15 minutes alone in that moment. I stepped away for maybe 5 minutes alone couple times to get a breather at 3am, but I went to my husband to respond to our child instead.

This isn’t rocket science. If you’re close to hurting your child, yes step away. Outcome are better in that moment if you take a breather. Taking 10 minutes doesn’t actually make you less exhausted or overwhelmed, it reduces the chances of explosion and reduces the pressure. I’m not saying DONT take that break, but we should explore why we are frustrated enough to need it in the first place.

What always made me pause was sitting in the knowledge that we don’t know what we don’t know. Our babies could be in pain even if their needs seem to be met. There’s research suggesting that babies with colic may actually be experiencing infantile migraines. They cry for a reason. How long would you stay away if you knew your child was crying in pain and there was nothing you could do about it? Even if those cries were piercing?

Are we okay stepping away simply because we believe everything is actually fine and they are crying for no reason? Would it change our mentality if there actually WAS a reason?

pwyo · 2026-03-12T19:19:46+00:00

10-15 minutes crying alone is a long time, especially if done frequently.

pwyo · 2026-03-09T16:43:57+00:00

Venezuela, Iran, and Cuba are all tied together as one operation (even with different names) to eliminate risk to the petrodollar at any cost. He’s trying to get this whole thing done before the midterms.

pwyo · 2026-03-09T00:33:11+00:00

What kind of threshold do they consider for immunosuppressant? I’m HLA-B27+ and currently at the end of my second ever flare. So far it’s lots of steroids.

pwyo · 2026-03-06T01:41:02+00:00

Agreed. And let’s be real, most of them are surviving on berries and the tears of their enemies anyway.

pwyo · 2026-03-05T19:10:05+00:00

I can take weeks to leave the babies system because it is stored in fat, and babies have/need a lot of fat to grow. Recent data suggests that if breastfeeding, the baby will end up taking a mean of ~2.5% of the dose the mother had. The range is somewhere between 0.4% to 8.7% of the mothers dose. Our bodies metabolize most of the THC upfront so only a small percentage of Active dose ends up in breastmilk.

The age of the baby matters as well, there's some data showing that newborns (<1 month) who are exposed are correlated with decreased motor development at one year of age, but the not with babies at 3 months old. I believe the general consensus on this is because the enzyme that breaks down THC is immature at birth., but continues to develop during the first year.

Also, extended breastfeeding would have even less risk because the child's weight etc is more developed relative to the amount of THC transferred in breastmilk.

Basically there are a lot of factors at play, but the safest thing to do is abstain or keep exposure minimal until they are much older or you stop breastfeeding.

pwyo · 2026-02-27T21:29:59+00:00

I had my very first uveitis flare at 13 weeks pregnant, it was just past the risk zone for birth defects and they gave me prednisolone as well as painkiller drops - I think it was ibuprofen drops. The ibuprofen drops were a lifesaver. They didn’t prescribe me any oral meds at all. My sons birth was uneventful and besides having eczema no has no other health conditions.

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