Because the only way to make people and organizations solely driven by greed care about something is to take money away from them unfortunately.

If the criminal courts won’t help, this at least makes the problem known. 

Honestly? Because I think most people, especially public school systems, don’t give a shit until they risk losing something valuable to them. That tends to be money and not much else.

My mother walked in on me being sexually abused by a (male) babysitter and then later lectured me about how “that’s not what Jesus wants you to do.”

I had a fibroid removed and got pregnant I think three months later. I delivered vaginally. I told about the fibroid at my prenatal appointments, no one even mentioned it might be a problem. If you change your mind about kids, I would get a second opinion about the c-section

The inclusion of “packet of ranch dressing mix” is a HUGE red flag.  No thank you.

A new law signed late last year aims to help states investigate the causes of high rates of maternal mortality in this country—

Dodi Al Fayed, her brother died in the car crash with Diana - and Mohammed, their father, has vocally accused the Royals of ordering her killing ever since. Harrods lost their royal warrant over it, the Royals have nothing to do with any of them anymore

Depends on the size of the hospital. The main issue causing a hospital to “ban” VBAC’s is lack of 24 hour anesthesia. Way more hospitals than you would think (or hope I guess) do not have an anesthesiologist in the hospital 24 hours a day. Without that, ACOG guidelines say you can not do a VBAC. So that eliminates a…

I think they’re trying to be clever because pork is associated with “unnecessary spending” in a budget.

It’s terrible that I know this, but Uh Hello is not a Sammy Sweetheart quote. That would be Angelina. 

I feel your pain! I also found out at about 35 weeks that my baby was breech. I had been in midwife care at a hospital with a 10% c-section rate and they basically told me that they don’t even attempt vaginal births for breech babies and moved me over to OB care. Similar to you, I was certain that I would have an…

Am I the only one who opened this assuming this brand was faltering because well, Kate Middleton wears a lot of boring-ass clothes and most people wouldn’t pay $300 for completely unremarkable shoes that look indistinguishable from something that came from DSW (or whatever the British equivalent is)?

Have you looked at spinningbabies.com? The techniques there worked for me. My baby was breech at 30 weeks, and flipped at 32. I am not sure how many resources you have in your area, but many chiropractors are skilled in the Webster technique to help a baby turn. Acupuncture can also help. Finally, your doctor can try…

My doula had us write a birth preference or something (I can’t remember the exact language) because “plan” is too rigid. Giving birth is crazy and a million things can go wrong, which is why necessary medical interventions save lives. That said, the point here is that there are too many unnecessary c-sections. With my…

Really? Enough people have successfully given birth vaginally after a c-section that it can safely be assume to be safe for the vast majority. You have to if course evaluate each individual, and for some a second c-section will be necessary, but even in the US 60-80% of women who give birth after a c-section have…

I had a c section. It wasn’t the plan but of course, my water breaking 4 weeks early after having just been told the Peachick was running too small was also not the plan.

This is what I thought as well. Jackson deliberately drove a wedge between those men and their mothers while promoting himself as their sole love object. That went on for years, and it doesn’t vanish overnight.

I think that’s probably pretty common. Not only did the parents of both of these men utterly fail them, but enablers often feel like safer/easier targets for victims’ anger than the abusers. That anger is a lot less tied up in the guilt and shame they feel about their abuse. Plus, the dynamic between abused and…

I didn’t know how profoundly After Neverland was going to impact me. Really wish I hadn’t watched it. There was childhood sexual abuse in my family that I thought had been neatly tucked away but this film ripped that fucking wound right open. I doubt I’ll get a good night sleep for a long while.