I actually think this is silly and super performative on the mom’s part. Acknowledging your baby’s apparent biological sex doesn’t mean gender norms or even a gender has to be forced on them. If everything looks standard down below, as the vast majority of genitals do, you can tell what sex the kid is with great…

I personally think this is a goofy thing to do, but it doesn’t matter — 95% chance Searyl is indisputably girly or boyish by the time they turn 5. And if it means people will buy fewer nauseatingly gendered things for the baby, I can only be supportive.

I don’t suppose it matters on the birth certificate, but it does seem a little foolish to just pretend sex has no relationship to health. You don’t need to force anything on a child, but that is medically necessary information regardless of what gender, if any, the child identifies with.

Bingo. There’s no chance for a meaningful recovery and the child is in pain and will continue to be in pain. The parents’ decision is about what’s best for them, not the child. Which is why there are boards for advocating for the patient in the UK.

I agree completely. It’s hard. Terribly hard...but if your body can’t keep you alive due to a terminal non curable or treatable disease, then you should not be alive.  

I read elsewhere that the experimental procedure the parents want (which has not even been tested in mice) would have zero chance to improve his brain function even in the most miraculous of best-case scenarios. This is Terry Schiavo all over again. The brain matter is irreparably damaged, full stop.

I hate these stories. They’re impossibly difficult and cruelly unfair. But I’m still of the mind that if my child’s organs cannot function without a machine doing the work for them, this is not life.

I’m surprised the comments are so negative. I also got placenta pills made, and so far have had positive experience. I am very pro science, and definitely not an anti Vaxxer. The truth is there hasn’t been much scientific research to go one way or the other about this. I find that to be true of a lot of things…

hee hee so looking through the comments I guess I’m the only pro placenta pill person here... weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeird!

I went to the Women’s March 7.5 months pregnant with a wee sign on my belly. Every time someone stopped to take my picture they demanded that I put my hand on my belly. It’s the “Blue Steel” of pregnancy shots.

Most OB/GYNs will say whatever you do while not pregnant, you can certainly do while pregnant - if everything else is as it should be.

I have no idea where the American law stands on this, but I don’t think you’re allowed to pay for more than certain determined medical costs when you use a surrogacy? Maybe in this case there are some unofficial bonuses on the side.

You’re telling me that a woman who makes millions of dollars a year from her iPhone apps can only pay the woman carrying her child a measly $4,000 if she loses her reproductive organs?!

From a news standpoint, i.e., why we’re “talking about it”, the huge increase in a short timeframe is what’s significant. The source in this piece, at least, also notes that all races and zip codes are affected, so while pills might be the stereotypical white domain, data say otherwise??

She wasn’t “jeering” him, and she wasn’t just telling him to kill himself in a hateful manner (which, don’t get me wrong, is still awful).

I honestly don’t know how I feel about this verdict. I mean, everything I’ve read about the case tells me this girl is horrible and morally culpable, but I just don’t know enough about the law to say whether she’s legally culpable. And even if she is, I don’t know that I think she should be.

(1) Remember that the vast majority of pregnancies do not involve those terrifying conditions!

Yeah, some states allow it. And, honestly, I’m sure even in states that don’t, unlicensed midwives still work.

Oregon allows them under certain exemptions, and one of those exemptions is religion. Exemptions might not be quite the right word, but I’m on some heavy allergy meds today, and this is the language I’m stuck with at the moment.