So why does the UK have different guidelines then? In fact, pregnancy guidelines vary massively from country to country. The international meta-analysis and systematic review from Bristol University showed that a few drinks were unlikely to have any effect. And the UK, while it advises women should abstain, also gives…

And smoking is bad for everyone no matter what, whereas alcohol use is fine as long as it’s not misused or abused. They don’t have the same harmful profile and it’s really misleading to equate them.

Science says that mild alcohol use during pregnancy is safe. And medical advice should be evidence-based, and not because we are afraid of liability in case anything goes wrong.

I think that’s a large part of the anxiety around pregnancy, the absolute unpredictability of it all. I’ve seen seemingly perfect pregnancies go terribly wrong while on placement, and it’s why everyone is anxious especially around prims. I hope your son was ok, and no, your sips of wine were definitely not the cause.

Because pregnant people are people not incubators, and wrapping them up in cotton wool and treating them paternalisticly actually doesn’t benefit anyone at all. I’m fact, the shame about drinking while pregnant was so strong that my own booking appointment with the midwife, in a pregnancy that I hadn’t known about for…

Like, I dont even drink beer at any other time, but when I was pregnant it tasted SO GOOD??? I had a few, sometimes mixed with lemonade.

Beer was my craving! I never drink it normally, but had a few while pregnant. It was fucking delicious.

OMG I thought my day couldn’t get any worse and i got locked OUT OF MY FLAT I cannot deal with this bullshit today, I will do it tomorrow

“Maybe you just won the lottery.”

Man I am in a foul mood today.

Looks like Mortal Dictata dismissed my comment out of, what, sheer embarrassment? Sanitary products are 5% VAT and Nicola Sturgeon of the SNP has already launched a pilot scheme for free sanitary products for low-income people. You can dismiss this too, if you like, but you genuinely should stop with the “SNP bad”…

I honestly think people who go on like you are boring as fuck tbh. The SNP have done great work up here with a focus on Scottish issues, and it’s certainly not their fault that the SLP are absolute trash who took Scottish seats for utter granted. Sturgeon is a fantastic and compassionate politician, and she helped win…

Cups are a thing among the trendy middle class/vegan hipsters here (my sister uses one), but I’m telling people now that on the first three days of my period I have to wear tampons AND pads and change regularly, that it’s already embarrassing and exhausting enough that the blood runs right out of me without someone…

WOw, listen I’m going to come back to this later because I have a talk to write up rn.

100% this. Give tampons and pads. I’ve nothing against menstrual cups but I would be very uncomfortable at being asked to use one instead of pads/tampons. In fact, I’d end up using toilet roll instead.

I’ve always liked him as an actor, particularly in the sunrise/sunset/midnight trilogy, and it’s sort of nice to know he is a relatively ok person too.

Except in the books it is explicitly said that Dumbledore ignored Grindelwald’s rise to power and refused to fight him until he could no longer stand by due to Dumbledore’s shame about what happened to his sister and his feelings about Grindlewald. It’s also heavily insinuated that when it came to the duel between…

why is this so funny

The sticker placement on the main page makes one of the colours say “rape life” guys.

The sticker placement on the main page makes one of the colours say “rape life” guys.

“And JK Simmons is fantastic, the scenes with the two Howards just talking illustrate pretty strongly how versatile and subtle an actor he can be.”