Pre Conception and Pre Natal Diagnostic Techniques Act, 1994 Puns

Hey everyone! The below link is to my dissertation project survey. It will ask you about your views on both pre-conception and pre-natal screening for Cystic Fibrosis. It doesn't matter how much you do or don't know about the disease and will take only 5 minutes to complete. Your answers will help inform my dissertation and will be greatly appreciated. Please fill it in and any extra shares would be great. Thanks!

http://warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_cCQ3fbTTT6hzY1v

Hello all,

My wife and I are looking for a good OB/GYN for pre-natal and delivery in Nassau County. This will be our first baby so we want to be extra careful and want everything to be as smooth as possible. Can anyone provide any references to good areas where we can get the required services. We live in Westbury so providers that are close are preferable - we don't mind driving a bit to get good quality care, though.

Any help is greatly appreciated!

Edit: We are considering getting our care from NYU Langone in Mineola. Does anyone have experience from this location?

My husband and I are trying to conceive. My cycle ranges from 25-35 days. I started spotting/bleeding lightly on day 13 of my last cycle. According to ovulation tests, I ovulated on day 16 of my cycle (while continuing to spot/bleed lightly). My husband and I had sex on the ovulation day, and I continued to bleed. I've never had bleeding between periods like this, so I scheduled a visit with my OB/GYN. He had me do a quantitative HCG test, and it was 15. Two days later, my level was 31. At this point, I'm still bleeding. I had to wait four days between my next HCG test, and the level was down to 19. I knew it was supposed to have doubled twice, so I was really sad with this result. My doctor said it was likely an early miscarriage and told me to check my levels in a week or so. Two weeks later I am still spotting/bleeding. It's been four weeks of spotting/bleeding, so I go in for another HCG and my level is now 22. I visit my doctor and have an ultrasound. I would be 5 weeks 6 days, so the technician was not optimistic about seeing anything -- and she didn't. There was no discernible gestational sac/yolk. It looks like the bleeding is around the opening of my cervix in my uterus, but nothing else looks troubling. I have no pain/crams/other symptoms, I've just been bleeding for over 4 weeks now and have slightly fluctuating, low HCG levels.

Am I pregnant? This limbo is wrecking me. I already mourned this as a miscarriage, so I don't want false hope, but this week I've been worried about having cancer or an ectopic pregnancy (though I've had no pain --phew!) I am so tired of bleeding...

For context, this is my second "pregnancy," my first was a surprise, so I didn't realize I was pregnant until 6-7 weeks in, and my HCG was over 40,000. It went well, and I have a wonderful, healthy, 2.5 year-old kiddo.

I was reading today about Apple Fitness+ providing pre-natal coaching, so I went to check if my wife's Fitbit Versa had any support at all for pregnancy.

It is INSANE. There are feature requests from 2015 that are still being requested. No pregnancy setting, no pre-natal coaching, nothing of the sort.

Seriously WTF is this company doing? It's actually kind of sexist and not inclusive.

The former term (pre-purification) can be found in the Fathers, and I presume it is referred to in the Liturgy when we say that Mary is "all holy" and "sinless".

For example Nazianzen states,

>And in all things [Christ] becomes human, except sin. He was conceived by the Virgin, who was prepurified (prokathartheises) in both soul and  flesh by the Holy Spirit, for it was necessary that procreation be honored and that virginity be honored more. (Patrologia Graeca, 36:633C)

For reference, here's the official RCC declaration of the Immaculate Conception:

>We declare, pronounce and define that the doctrine which holds that the Blessed Virgin Mary, at the first instant of her conception, by a singular privilege and grace of the Omnipotent God, in virtue of the merits of Jesus Christ, the Savior of mankind, was preserved immaculate from all stain of original sin, has been revealed by God, and therefore should firmly and constantly be believed by all the faithful.

These seem very similar. Is there a subtle distinction that I've missed?

Hi everyone I just found this sub today and I’m blown away at all the support and love you guys show. I’ve been T1D for 19 years now. My husband and I are wanting to have a baby but my last A1C was 7.8 but they really want it below 7 which I hear is normal for high risk OB’s and endos to say. I want my sugars to be as perfect as perfect can be since I’ve had miscarriages in the past and I don’t want to run ANY risks of heart defects and other anomalies. Does anybody have any other pre-natal advice and TTC advice for T1D soon to be mamas? And also any insight for T1D mamas who have had children and what they advise. I have a high risk OB already and see my endo every 3 mos. I am a little underweight (17.5 BMI according to my endo a couple days ago) and still trying to gain more from depression and I’m scared to take antidepressants while pg but I understand they will probably have me still take them if the benefit outweighs the risk. I’m still scared though. Me and my husband want a baby more than anything in the world but we’re also considering adoption because of all the problems being high risk can cause. I know my mental health is also extremely important and we’re not going to TTC for several several months or until I’m all clear. Sorry this is longer than I expected, I appreciate you all!

Cuban was active on Twitter last night and he had this to say in reaction to KD's injury:

> The take away from last nights finals gm should be that the @nba & PA invest in research into diagnostic tools that allow for proactive analysis of tendons and ligaments so that we can pre-empt the devastating injuries

> And so many others have experienced. The reality of sports medicine is that it is still as much art as science. However, technology is turning a corner and we can accelerate the advances through investment. Teams are investing anecdotally where we can,

> But it’s now time to invest as a league, even if results may be 10 or 20 years away , we would benefit players who are coming into the league now. It’s our responsibility to the players who make this league so successful

Mark Cuban is an American businessman and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association (NBA)'s Dallas Mavericks.

So, I’m trying to figure out how so many of the Duggar girls and wives have crap care for childbearing. From the homebirths with unlicensed Midwives, to the doctors that don’t make them push, and even birthing on the toilet it makes me cringe. Kendra’s episode made me want to lose my mind as they told her to wait on the doctor and then I remembered Jessas births and Anna’s birth on the toilet. Like what is going on here? Is their area just devoid of quality woman care?

If you can't sit through the whole video without getting up and leaving or telling them to turn it off (which is most sane people would react) than you ought to think twice about what you are actually planning on putting your newborn through. It doesn't need to be forced upon them in an intactivism type way either, just simply showing them the process to help educate them on what actually happens. I think it would actually make some parents reconsider the procedure before they even hit play on the damn video, many would ask "why the hell would we want to see that?!" and then realize that the real question is why the hell would they want someone to DO that to their son?

I think that would put a halt to circumcision culture really quickly to be honest. It is amazing how many parents don't even think logistically about the procedure in any way, they simply hand their baby over to the doctor and keep talking about how proud and lucky they are to be parents to such a beautiful baby boy. Meanwhile the baby boy is screaming for his damn life in another room, a mere few hours or days out of a warm, comfortable uterus, already feeling some of the worst physical pain he could ever imagine for no good reason.

https://youtu.be/3WMuzhQXJoY

TRANSCRIPT OF VIDEO:

In 2013, I decided to meet my enemies. I was a 27-year-old, award-winning documentary filmmaker and a proud feminist. And I was determined to expose the dark underbelly of the men's rights movement. At that point, all I knew of the men's rights movement was from what I'd read online, that it's a misogynistic hate group actively working against women's equality. Well, the vast majority of my previous work was about women's issues. I directed documentaries about reproductive rights, single motherhood, and the need for more girls to get into STEM education. So when I learned that no one had ever documented the men's rights movement in a film before, I saw it as an opportunity to continue fighting for women's equality by exposing those preventing it. So for one year, I traveled North America meeting the leaders and followers of the men's rights movement. I spent anywhere from two hours up to eight hours, interviewing each individual men's rights activist, also known as MRA, and I filmed 44 people total. And there is an important rule in documentary filmmaking. As an interviewer, you do not interrupt.

So I'm asking questions, and I'm getting their full life story. And in the moment, I didn't realize it, but now looking back I can see, that while I was conducting my interviews, I wasn't actually listening. I was hearing them speak, and I knew the cameras were recording, but in those moments of sitting across from my enemy, I wasn't listening. What was I doing? I was anticipating. I was waiting to hear a sentence, or even just a couple of words in succession that proved what I wanted to believe: that I had found the misogynist. The ground zero of the war on women. A couple of times, I thought I had it. There was one men's rights activist that said to me, "Just walk outside and look around, everything you see was built by a man." Oh! That statement felt anti-women. I felt my jaw clench, but I sat quietly, as a documentarian should, while removing all the space between my upper and lower molars. (Laughter)

After my year of filming, I was reviewing the 100 hours of footage I had gathered, replaying and transcribing it, which believe me when I say no one will ever listen to you more than someone who transcribes your words. You should write that down. (Laughter) So, I was typing out every word meticulously, and through that process, I **began to realize that my initial

I know there's a million blogs and books on the subject, but they're all based on personal experience or guesses, and I have yet to see any with hard statistical evidence on what various things actually do for your child, especially when adjusting for correlated factors.

I always see people say stuff like "you could've been swallowed" and not "you could've been menstruated."

I am not sure if my thought process is common, but if I've learned anything on my journey through it, it's that "you're not alone" in those weird thought processes that come with being an abuse victim.

My partner and I are getting to the age where we might have kids, and the thought is terrifying me.

I (together with my three younger sisters) was sexually abused by my father from as early as I can remember, until I was 7, and I'm a pretty well-functioning adult in spite of it.

However, I am acutely aware of how people view men around children, especially when they know they too have been victims of abuse. There is a concerning widely-held misconception that victims of abuse are more likely to go on to be an abuser. The truth is actually the opposite.

That doesn't stop people thinking it, though. I would happily dismiss it, but I know of at least two occasions where adults (in one case an aunt of mine) wouldn't let their children stay at our house, knowing I had been a victim of abuse and convinced that I might end up abusing their children. These were friends of my sister, and in the one case my own cousin.

I only found out about the fact as an adult, but it's crumbled my confidence around children and a thought I find impossible to escape.

It's not in any way a concern that I might follow the path of my father, and end up committing an act of abuse. It's purely terror that people might get an idea about me, or say something, or (in the absolute worst case) accuse me of something. I don't know if I could have the mental strength to deal with that.

My partner wants kids, and I'm sure I do too, eventually. However, I want to know that it's possible to get past these mental blocks. I have been part of family group Whatsapp chats where innocent videos of my nephew and niece playing in the bath have been sent, and I've felt physically sick to the point of revulsion, at the thought that I even had something like that on my phone.

Men who became fathers - is this something that affects you? Is this something I can deal with? How did you overcome it?

I've been to therapy an awful lot, for this and unrelated depression, so I'm not afraid to emote and address, but I feel like for this kind of thing it would be great to speak to someone who has been in my shoes and has overcome it.

I hope this is the right subreddit - please point me in the right direction if there's somewhere more suitable.

Hello my wife just got results back from 20 week ultrasound. They said they think they see a hemivertebrae and we are refered to specialist. Just wondering if anyone had this experience and what it means for our baby. It seems like maybe it will be a wait and observe progression over time with possible surgery needed depending on progression. Any help thanks we are first time parents and scared but hoping that this is a managable concern.

It is only for my wife so the policies without the requirement to add both the partners and also covers the newborn

For some background, I was a pretty regular edibles user (2-4 10 mg THC ones a week), but I quit 15 days ago. I’m 6’3, 196 lbs with not a lot of body fat, and go to the gym five days a week.

When I found out that I had a urinalysis coming up, I used two different home-testing kits before I submitted my urine samples to Quest Diagnostics today. I used the one that Rite Aid sells specifically for testing weed, and the ones made by Ütest+ that test for 20 ng/mL of THC. The Rite Aid one yielded a negative result, showing two very dark and distinct red lines indicating such. I used at least three of the Ütest+ ones and the second of the two lines was faint yet visible in all of them, which nevertheless indicates a negative.

At first I was relieved, but after reading about how these tests can be inaccurate depending on several factors, I’ve been freaking out lately that I won’t pass the official lab test. Should I be worried, or am I getting worked up over nothing?

My wife is scheduled to have a c-section in a couple weeks and I would love for her to have a relaxing day to herself between now and then.

Ideally it would be some combination of mani+pedi, facial, pre-natal massage in a nice environment that she can stay to relax in a bit.

It's a bit hard to judge options just based on their websites and I don't have much experience with spas myself.

Can anyone recommend a relaxing spa that will be patient and accommodating to her being super pregnant? :)

We're in South Austin near Slaughter & Escarpment, but pretty flexible.

Thanks!

My husband and I are going to go to Costco and TJs tomorrow for a (likely) last run before bebê is here, and I’d love to know everyone’s favorite items! We just got a stand-alone freezer (theoretically for meal prep, hasn’t happened yet and my standing energy is low) so I want to stock up! Excited to hear your picks