Anonymous asked: What medicine do you use to breastfeed someone else’s baby?! I tried to combo breastfeed and formula feed my own baby, and my milk supply dried up, and now he gets only formula. I’m wondering if there’s the same medical intervention would help me start breastfeeding him again.

theunitofcaring:

I took hormonal birth control (Zovia 1/35; I think the progesterone/estrogen balance is important but it doesn’t have to be this specific birth control) to imitate pregnancy progesterone levels, and domperidone (20mg, four times a day) for six months, then went off the hormonal birth control and started pumping every four hours for two weeks. By the end of those two weeks I was producing about 4oz a pumping session, and gradually grew that to about 7. 

I did this in consultation with a lactation consultant and I recommend that if you can afford it/access it, but hormonal birth control has well-understood relatively limited risks and domperidone is a safe medication you can order online at inhousepharmacy so I can imagine doing it yourself being the right choice for some people who don’t have meaningful access to a lactation consultant. 

Sam did this too and got some milk but lower milk supply than me, so results definitely vary, and of course the most important thing for thriving kids is parents who are not stressed and miserable, not whether they’re fed breastmilk or formula. I hope it works for you if you end up deciding to try it but I am sure your baby will be totally fine either way.


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#I have less than no desire to do this myself #but I’m very glad to hear it’s an option for people who want that #lactation #fertility cw #medical cw #proud citizen of The Future #the more you know

responsible-reanimation:

eoskara:

When you think about it, what was the motivation for kinks in the environment of evolutionary adaptedness? 

Dunno, but I think that “virile, manly strangers impregnating your spouse” was only added in as a hilarious curveball.

(Terrible ass-pull theory: it’s good to spread your genes far and wide, and therefore good to be attracted to a range of weird stuff?)

My personal favourite ass-pull theory:

Kinks are the beginning of the atrophying of the human sex drive.

Yes, the decoupling of “if pleasurable PIV, then procreation” wasn’t widespread until very recently, but decoupling the other way–“if procreation, then pleasurable PIV” happened a long time ago. Humans are smart, communicative, and capable of enduring short-term discomfort in pursuit of long-term goals. Therefore, the procreative act need not be pleasant, nor need it be intuitive: humans will do it regardless.

My heavily warped sex drive presents no barrier whatsoever to my reproductive success. I learned how to reproduce from other people, and if I chose I could perform these learned actions for the sake of obtaining children, without ever actually enjoying it.

When it no longer matters whether something is broken, it is free to accumulate damage. Kinks are the result of this entropy.


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#I mean my lack of desire for children *does* present a barrier to my reproductive success #but that’s another matter #reply via reblog #sexuality and lack thereof #pregnancy cw #just so story cw

sinesalvatorem:

rusalkii:

cherryskies:

everyone has that one story that sounds fake but isnt

@sinesalvatorem

all of them
your whole life

Hey! I will have you know that I am completely normal and believable! In fact, I was born normal and belie-

…Actually, no, that’s a fucking lie. Even my birth was engineered for dumb reasons.

Like, my due date was the 7th of February. However, I was late, because executive dysfunction. After I had been late for a while, the midwife started suggesting that they induce the birth.

Eventually, the 13th rolled around and she said she had Valentine’s plans with her husband, so she wouldn’t be available if my mother went into labour the next day. So my mum was like “fiiiiine” and they induced on the 13th.


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#anything that makes me laugh this much deserves a reblog #(‘however I was late because executive dysfunction’)

erisender:

my birthday cake this year. based off of this text post

Ooh, a loophole for never-having-been-born curses!


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#pregnancy #birthday #removal day #about once a year #(at irregular intervals) #Mom tells the story of how her doctors pressured her into an unnecessary C-section #and she’s still mad at them for it #but to be fair if they’d waited for me to come out on my own I’d have almost certainly been a Sagittarius #and that would have gone *badly* #The Great Night Vale Fandom Assimilation of 2013 #in which Brin has a food poisoning phobia #(also my birthday would have been firmly within the Christmas season and that would suck too)

coeur-de-porcelaine:

pansexualpagan:

kaylamariesmiley:

toenail-fister:

daigonite:

lucifers-lycan:

sizvideos:

Mila Kunis Against Men Saying “We Are Pregnant” – Video

What the fuck is this bullshit and why was it recommended for me?

It’s not like men are involved in the creation of the baby or anything.

I mean shit, I understand that pregnancy is an extremely strenuous thing on the woman, but that doesn’t mean that a dude can’t be proud of the fact that he’s going to be a father.

Hmm. Weird how someone would want to be considered a part of the pregnancy…
There goes all of my respect for Mila Kunis.

My goodness, women like this have some fucking nerve. Good luck Ashton.

Please stop.

Pregnancy is a very dangerous time for cis-women. Until cis-men are capable of nine months of pain without the ability to take painkillers, followed by hours of one of the most painful experiences a human can undergo, I agree with Mila Kunis. It is your child. Not your pregnancy. You don’t get a fucking medal for sticking your dick inside someone and impregnating them, you get a child. So no, you don’t need a fucking spotlight highlighting your months of work and pain and the fact that you can potentially die trying to bring life into the world when you have not undergone any of the physical effort.

Things you can expect during pregnancy: Anemia, urinary tract infections, constipation, mental health conditions including intense depression, hyperemesis gravidarm (basically when persistent vomiting is more than just morning sickness and requires hospitalization). Not to mention there are dozens of infections that can cause serious problems. (x) (x)

Oh and the fact that 20% of pregnancies end in miscarriages which obviously requires hospitalization for the pregnant woman and causes a lot of emotional trauma.

Or that you can’t consume alcohol, most types of fish, you can’t expose yourself to hot water (or any heat, really), or get an x-ray. You cannot eat lunch meats, raw sprouts (radishes, alfalfa, etc.), soft cheeses, anything unpasteurized is out, as are foods with raw or undercooked eggs. And caffeine can lead to miscarriages, so say goodbye to coffee, teas, and chocolate. (x) (x) (x)

About 2 million pregnancy losses occur annually in the U.S.; 6 million babies are born. 25% of pregnancies are lost.

14.5% of pregnant women will experience at least one pregnancy complication.

11% of women are diagnosed with post partum depression.

(x)

800 women die because of pregnancy-related problems in the U.S. annually. (x)

Labor can last for 36 hours or more. You’re in a room full of strangers, who are all seeing your vagina, your blood, your shit, your piss, and your agony. It’s common for tearing to occur during the delivery (x) and after the baby is born you still have to deliver the placenta (essentially an organ).

Pregnancy is terrifying, dangerous, and uncomfortable. None of you have the right to shit on Mila Kunis for telling the truth: You do not deserve the spotlight of your wife’s pregnancy. So get over yourselves. Yes, the father CAN be proud, and he should be. But it’s not his pregnancy. He is not the one who will endure it.

It is not weird that someone would want to be involved in their wife’s pregnancy. It is weird that you have the fucking nerve to lose respect for someone reminding you that the father is not the pregnant one in the picture.

So please, stop.

Today in male entitlement: now women ”have some nerve” if they remind men that they are not, in fact, the pregnant ones. 

Okay, so fathers are allowed and even pressured to feel proud. How then should they express this pride? “My wife and I are having a baby” is forbidden (see first GIF), so what’s permitted?


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#feminism #I’m willing to go along with the rules of the social-justice subculture #but I need to know what the rules *are* before I can follow them #let alone warn other people that they’re breaking them


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