Thanks for response. Good for you, thanks for being careful and being brave.
-- In my time, first birth in 1978, silver nitrate drops were standard to protect against gonorrhea. Why give them to the child of a couple who had been virgin until marriage, chaste ever after? If the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, shouldn't their virtues be as well? I refused. However, I was (carefully) not in a standard hospital, but at Booth Maternity (Phila), the nation's first to be 'manned' by nurse midwives.
--As to your 'getting them when most vulnerable" --here's my anecdote: Young woman I met a few years ago, had been breast-feeding her newborn and wanted to continue to breast-feed. County health worker new mother having given birth unmarried, pressured her into birth-control of some sort of innoculation. Milk dried up and young mother was distraught.
--3 of my 5 grandchildren (Toronto and England) were born at home--twice because mother couldn't get to hospital in time.
--Cannot imagine what it must have been like to give birth during the Covid nuttiness. Wearing a mask while hoo-hawing?
--Incidentally--for our potential future--that labor breathing technique stood me in good stead later. In '14 when I had broken my back--the breathing allowed me to live through the pain. Stupid nurse wanted me to shut up.
Mask was barely on for me but I also had to have c-section as baby was breech. Would have probably passed out if I had to labor in a mask. Home in under 48 hrs. We also didn't allow eye goop as I didn't have GBS.
Thanks for response. Good for you, thanks for being careful and being brave.
-- In my time, first birth in 1978, silver nitrate drops were standard to protect against gonorrhea. Why give them to the child of a couple who had been virgin until marriage, chaste ever after? If the sins of the fathers are visited upon the children, shouldn't their virtues be as well? I refused. However, I was (carefully) not in a standard hospital, but at Booth Maternity (Phila), the nation's first to be 'manned' by nurse midwives.
--As to your 'getting them when most vulnerable" --here's my anecdote: Young woman I met a few years ago, had been breast-feeding her newborn and wanted to continue to breast-feed. County health worker new mother having given birth unmarried, pressured her into birth-control of some sort of innoculation. Milk dried up and young mother was distraught.
--3 of my 5 grandchildren (Toronto and England) were born at home--twice because mother couldn't get to hospital in time.
--Cannot imagine what it must have been like to give birth during the Covid nuttiness. Wearing a mask while hoo-hawing?
--Incidentally--for our potential future--that labor breathing technique stood me in good stead later. In '14 when I had broken my back--the breathing allowed me to live through the pain. Stupid nurse wanted me to shut up.
Mask was barely on for me but I also had to have c-section as baby was breech. Would have probably passed out if I had to labor in a mask. Home in under 48 hrs. We also didn't allow eye goop as I didn't have GBS.
Happy for you! Thanks for reply! But they still do eye goop. Probably want to inject the neonate against moneypox.