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    Who here has a mediocre relationship with their sibling(s)?

    @ernesjohnson I have 3 sisters. One of them, due to heavy mental illness, I am not in touch with. I get along just fine with the other two and we text some, but we live really far apart and have our own lives. We always have a good time when we do get together, but the people really in my...
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    If you could turn back time, would you still have a child?

    @fudge Yes. She's 2y9m and I've badly suffered at times due to family issues, no support network, mental health issues, etc.... But I'd still choose her all over again. I am not a spiritual person most of the time, but when I saw her face as they held her up during my c section, my first thought...
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    Why isn’t this particular risk of back to back pregnancies ever discussed?

    @meslit My niece and nephew are both autistic in ways that make most daily family and community life tasks almost impossible. There's a reason parents worry about a child being on the spectrum, and it's disingenuous to pretend that if people "just had empathy" everything would be fine.
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    Sibling gender (biological sex at birth)?

    @worldprayerchain Maybe! I did my last research on it almost 4 years ago before I had my own kid.
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    Sibling gender (biological sex at birth)?

    @elam84 Sometimes the vaginal ph is such that one sperm type is more successful than the other. X sperm are hearty but slower; y sperm are faster but more frail. It's also not the "winning" sperm, but a sperm and egg that choose each other, so back to how people match biologically. Further, some...
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    Sometimes I feel like I am just bankrolling my husband’s identity crisis

    @goldensleather Maybe he could look into medical careers that aren't being a doctor? There are places that need subject matter experts in medicine, such as corporations who work in the field, government policy creators, etc. I work in training AI chatbots and they have had calls before for SMEs...
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    In my feelings re: Michelle Wolf childbirth piece

    @pablo628 I used to be a doula and went on to have a medically necessary c-section myself. I think two things can be true: some doctors/hospitals practice over-intervention, and sometimes those interventions are truly and completely necessary. The one thing I feel ends up being a common issue...
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