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user-inactivated  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why is American home birth so dangerous?

I know that name. This is the nutjob who went out against Breastfeeding.

She got kicked out/left the SBM folks 6-7 years ago as well for promoting woo. Official Statement

Natural medicine and Natural Health is something that should be looked into. Unfortunately these two fields attract a large contingent of whack jobs, which hurts those people looking into those fields with a reality-based focus.

    Birth in humans is more dangerous than birth in bonobos. Humans deliver a 12-month baby in 10 months (humans have a 40-week gestation - surprise!) because if the baby got any bigger women couldn't walk upright. It's tricky. And the way to make that safer is to have integrated healthcare that winnows out high-risk mothers from low-risk approaches. Like the rest of the world has.

Which is why we have the highest infant mortality rate in the developed world We don't do pre-natal care, or paid maternity leave, or better day care etc.

One of the reason that I cannot stand the peddlers of woo, like this tard, is that they drag the conversation away from the fixes and solutions.





reguile  ·  3127 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    Natural medicine and Natural Health is something that should be looked into.

It is, has been, and the stuff that works well and is cheap enough to turn into a pill and distribute becomes known as "medicine".

kleinbl00  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·  
user-inactivated  ·  3128 days ago  ·  link  ·  

THE FUCK?