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Nurses don't have degrees here. It's an apprenticeship program, like most fields here are.

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Wow, very interesting thread. I'm due in about 5 weeks, first baby. I'm gonna be doing what I can to make sure it's natural!

Heard from my cousin who's expecting her 2nd any day now, but in Sweden, that a few days before her first's due date, they realized he was upside down, and scheduled a c-section.

I'd first try to get the baby to flip around before scheduling a c-section in that situation.

But, apparently, in Sweden, even after one c-section they reccomend trying a natural birth for the 2nd!

I've heard some States (like NY) won't even allow the mom to try natural if she's had a c-section before. Very glad we don't live there!!!!

I was a scheduled c-section because my mom's womb had a thicker wall on one side, and it was supposedly blocking the exit for me, though my brother was a natural birth before that. The 2nd doctor my mom interacted with kind of freaked out when he realized the condition of her womb, but she was calm and simply said, she'd already had a kid without any issues! (My mom is amazing!)

We interacted with a midwife that we really liked but wasn't able to continue with due to it being too far away. She used to work at the hospital, but started her own practice because she got fed up with her having sat with mom's and then the doctor would sweep in and intervene by rushing birth or swap to c-section instead of letting things progress naturally.

She does home births, has a center, and has hospital privileges where she stays as the primary caregiver throughout birth if someone needs to be transferred to the hospital during labor. She's in her 60s, and now has 2-3 more midwives working with her, so they can assist multiple women at a time.

Unfortunately, where we live there are no good midwives.

They're getting thin on the ground here, too, because they are now forced to pay for their own insurance, if they don't get hired by the hospital. And the ones hired by the hospital are just more nurses, really. They aren't real midwives.

It's typical, that they try to save health care money by neglecting pregnant women, since babies can't vote.

I'm SchwƤbisch, but I don't make SpƤtzle every night. šŸ˜‚

Our daughter doesn't look like other girls.

Every parent thinks that, but I know it to be true. She isn't ugly, as there's nothing particularly unpleasant about her appearance. But one can't really describe her as "pretty", either, since pretty women all look alike and she's so terribly odd and exotic-looking.

Well, exotic, like an English Rose 🌹.

One day, she's dull, grey, mousey, nondescript, plain. The next, she is stunning us with those sky-blue, sparkling eyes, the brilliant smile, those elegant, refined bones. A true lady. The next day, it is back to grey, as if a switch had been flipped.

Perhaps all girls have that switch and we merely don't notice because they are painted.

Every day, we rise, and wait to see if our sun will come out.

We were in the hospital with a midwife, both times, and it was great. The doctors are always rushing, but the midwife will just sit down on the chair and wait with you.

They keep it turned off for so long, and with such brutal methods, that they try to turn it on again and their bodies are like, LOL nah.

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ā€œOliver Twist – Chapter 14 Flowā€

(Original rap inspired by the events of the chapter)

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[Verse 1]

Yo, Oliver’s healing, outta that pain,

In Brownlow’s crib, feelin’ human again.

Kindness hits harder than a London rain,

From the streets to the warmth, it’s a whole new lane.

But deep in the shadows, Fagin’s on the creep,

Can’t let the boy go, got secrets to keep.

Bill Sikes lurkin’, Nancy’s eyes weep,

They plannin’ a snatch while the city don’t sleep.

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[Chorus]

From the cold stone floor to a feather bed,

From hunger pains to a plate of bread,

London’s got angels, London’s got snakes,

Trust is a gamble that a poor boy takes.

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[Verse 2]

Brownlow’s kindness, it ain’t no act,

But the past got claws, and it’s pullin’ him back.

Fagin spins tales in a smoke-filled shack,

Wants Oliver returnin’ to the criminal track.

Nancy’s torn, got a heart that’s real,

But the life she’s in got a chain of steel.

Oliver’s dreamin’ of a world to feel

Safe and clean—like a brand-new deal.

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[Bridge]

Two worlds, one boy, one fragile choice,

One side’s kindness, the other’s that voice

Sayin’ ā€œStick with the crew, it’s the only way,ā€

But Oliver’s hopin’ for a brighter day.

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[Chorus]

From the cold stone floor to a feather bed,

From hunger pains to a plate of bread,

London’s got angels, London’s got snakes,

Trust is a gamble that a poor boy takes.

āø»

[Outro]

So here’s where we stand, tension’s tight,

Storm clouds gather in the dead of night.

Oliver’s future’s hangin’ in sight,

Will it be the dark… or the guiding light?

Thank you. The world needed to be graced with that artistic wonder.

Awesome work. Jumble keeps getting better.

nostr:npub1syjmjy0dp62dhccq3g97fr87tngvpvzey08llyt6ul58m2zqpzps9wf6wl One improvement that might be helpful is some kind of subtle loading animation to display when a page is rendering in the background that takes some time to load depending on bandwidth.

He also just needs a spiffyier server. The load is up.

We can finally see the full threads.

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Wow. nostr:nostr:npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkj you weren't kidding. My connection is slow as heck, but that was nearly instantaneous publishing.

WTF dark magic is this? šŸ˜‚

Aargh, nostr:npub1636uujeewag8zv8593lcvdrwlymgqre6uax4anuq3y5qehqey05sl8qpl4 I programmed in a "nostr:nostr:" bug, sorry. šŸ™ˆ

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Women with daddy issues don't realize that it's normal for men to be willing to die for the people they love.

Men with daddy issues have the same problem.

The point is that even positive or neutral/differentiated ideas can become negative, when taken ad absurdum.

Ha ha. People do it to me, all the time. And then their post trends, but mine doesn't, so they have a long thread full of people wondering what they are so upset about.

Crazy how little 🌽 I now get for my šŸ’¶.

I'll soon be stacking Bitcoin dust, at this rate.

That moment, when you realize that you're permanently part of the plankton class, along with almost everyone else.

Greater Plankton šŸ˜‚

We literally have a 98% defection rate. The average of the remainder is 1% of kind 1 client users.

They are happy with the status quo. Yes.

The public messages are ephemeral (I set it in the constants as 4 weeks expiration). You can send the message to multiple people and it goes to their inboxes and your outboxes. If you "reply" to a public message, then it's actually a quote with all the recipients added, and you can remove some or add more, before sending.

That makes it a sort of impromptu group chat with disappearing entries.

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Zap me 10k sats and I'll zap you 20k back.

Promise.

Nah, you zap me. Show me how it's done, bro.

Yeah, but it could be surrounded by green. You can always have more green.