Open (More or Less) Post on Covid 75

[ecosophia]

As we proceed through the second year of these open posts, it's pretty clear that the official narrative is cracking as the toll of deaths and injuries from the Covid vaccines rises steadily and the vaccines themselves demonstrate their total uselessness at preventing Covid infection or transmission. It's still important to keep watch over the mis-, mal- and nonfeasance of our self-proclaimed health gruppenfuehrers, and the disastrous results of the Covid mania, but I think it's also time to begin thinking about what might be possible as the existing medical industry reels under the impact of its own self-inflicted injuries. 

So it's time for another open post. The rules are the same as before: 

1. If you plan on parroting the party line of the medical industry and its paid shills, please go away. This is a place for people to talk openly, honestly, and freely about their concerns that the party line in question is dangerously flawed and that actions being pushed by the medical industry et al. are causing injury and death. It is not a place for you to dismiss those concerns. Anyone who wants to hear the official story and the arguments in favor of it can find those on hundreds of thousands of websites.

2. If you plan on insisting that the current situation is the result of a deliberate plot by some villainous group of people or other, please go away. There are tens of thousands of websites currently rehashing various conspiracy theories about the Covid-19 outbreak and the vaccines. This is not one of them. What we're exploring is the likelihood that what's going on is the product of the same arrogance, incompetence, and corruption that the medical industry and its tame politicians have displayed so abundantly in recent decades. That possibility deserves a space of its own for discussion, and that's what we're doing here. 
 
3. If you plan on using rent-a-troll derailing or disruption tactics, please go away. I'm quite familiar with the standard tactics used by troll farms to disrupt online forums, and am ready, willing, and able -- and in fact quite eager -- to ban people permanently for engaging in them here. Oh, and I also lurk on other Covid-19 vaccine skeptic blogs, so I'm likely to notice when the same posts are showing up on more than one venue. 

4. If you don't believe in treating people with common courtesy, please go away. I have, and enforce, a strict courtesy policy on my blogs and online forums, and this is no exception. The sort of schoolyard bullying that takes place on so many other internet forums will get you deleted and banned here. Also, please don't drag in current quarrels about sex, race, religious, etc. No, I don't care if you disagree with that: my journal, my rules. 

With that said, the floor is open for discussion. 

Comments

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update

[(Anonymous)]

I feel for you. My first child simply would not latch on without a nipple shield- basically a bottle nipple shaped to go over the breast. He was a poor nurser for the first month or so, and that in turn lowered my milk supply. It all turned out okay in the end, but as it was my first, I felt very insecure.

Do not try to diet. Lots of moms want to 'get the baby weight off'. Nah. Lactating takes a ton of calories. Eat, eat!

I will pray for you and your baby girl both, that all will be well!

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update

[methylethyl]

IKR? I don't know how people lose weight while nursing: I gained fifteen pounds nursing my first, because I was ravenous all. the. time. My body was making up for losing weight while pregnant (had a rough time of it).

My MIL says that having a beer makes you produce more milk. I know that's blasphemy in some circles, but I experimented with it-- half a beer in the evening a couple times-- and I did in fact make noticeably more milk. Dunno if it works for everyone-- and I did it just for curiosity. I had the opposite problem: one baby, and enough milk to feed two or three! Pumped to avoid engorgement/blockages, and gave away the excess.

I was told to get tons of protein and not be shy about egg yolks, and that worked great for me-- I often went in for a 6-egg breakfast where I chucked five of the egg-whites, during the nursing stage (now, on the far side of babies and nursing, I can't imagine doing that-- too much!). It kept me from plowing through a sack of bagels at breakfast (ravenous!) every morning.

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update

[(Anonymous)]

Drinking beer to bring in milk was an established fact among the African ladies who made up most of my social circle at the time my first two were born, to the point that they gave me six-packs!

Alas, I dislike beer, so gave it all to my husband who does like it. Fortunately I had no problems with supply.

It was not a tribal nor a regional conviction, either, the ladies were from all over the continent.

BoysMom

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update

[methylethyl]

My MIL is the child of German immigrants. I had assumed it was a German thing! Who knew?

Re: Ecosophia Prayer List Update

[scotlyn]

FWIW - in older, less woke, times, new mothers in Ireland were often given to understand that a half-size bottle of Guinness (stout) a day would be good for bringing in their milk. ;)