"Here's what Maurice Cohen, chair of the #Jewish Representative Council, gets that a lot of us don't: #antiSemitism doesn't arrive with a #swastika armband and a manifesto. It seeps in through the gaps in our moral certainty. It sounds like a #Jordanian #doctor refusing to treat a #Jewish #woman in an #Irish hospital. It looks like #graffiti calling to '#KillJews' in #Dublin streets. It feels like a Jewish family being driven out of #Killorglin after five years because their neighbours decided being Jewish made them unwelcome.

Now, I can already hear the protests - That's not anti-Semitism, that's legitimate highlighting of #Israeli policy. Except - and this is crucial - it's not. A Jewish woman in #Cork awaiting a #Csection didn't create #Netanyahu's coalition government. A family in Killorglin didn't vote for Israeli #settlements. A child in a Dublin playground didn't authorise any military action. They're just Jewish. And we're making them pay for that."

https://www.westernpeople.ie/opinion/lets-not-abandon-irelands-beleaguered-jews_arid-81775.html

#TIL that the Dominican Republic has the highest rate of Cesarean section deliveries (58%) in the world.

Trends and projections of caesarean section rates: global and regional estimates [2021]
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8208001/

#childbirth #Csection #health

💡 The first successful C-section on a living woman happened in 1500.

Jacob Nufer, a pig castrator, performed the surgery on his own wife after days of failed labor.

With only a razor, he saved both mother and child. She later gave birth naturally to 5 more children.

From desperation came a breakthrough that has since saved millions of lives.

#History #Medicine #Innovation #CSection

Imagine this: you're in the delivery room, heart full of anticipation, maybe a little bit of those excited nerves. Then, the mood shifts. #babysheartrate #Csection #fetaldistress #labor #nonreassuringfetalstatus #oxygensupply #pregnancy

https://priya.health/fetal-distress/

I remember a young woman, Sarah, so excited for her first baby. She’d done all the classes, her bag was packed for weeks. Labor started, and everything seemed to be on track. #birthplan #Csection #failuretoprogress #LaborComplications #Oxytocin #prolongedlabor #slowlabor

https://priya.health/prolonged-labor/

Rachele was one of my Zonta Club's women of achievement this year. I was able to present her an award and talk with her for awhile. She is an amazing woman providing doula services (and breastfeeding help, a baby pantry, and more) in rural northern Michigan. This is her C-section story. It took her awhile to be able to tell it, but she finds the courage to do so here.
https://www.safehavendoula.com/the-shit-they-dont-tell-you/when-birth-doesnt-go-as-planned-my-cesarean-story?sfnsn=mo

#WomensHealth #birth #CSection #doula

I have not been able to read lately. Too overwhelmed with... Everything. But I decided to pick Invisible Labor: The Untold Story of the Cesarean Section by Rachel Somerstein.

Personally, I have had two abortions, one vaginal birth, and one planned C-section (high risk pregnancy). While I never experienced trauma, I bled for more than 6 months after my C-section which I assume is far from normal though my doctor never seemed concerned.

#birth #CSection #pregnancy #health #PostPartum #books