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Caturday vibes

The head of the FDA tells us they're taking a look at the dietary guidelines and that the food pyramid is out.

The food pyramid has not been in use since 2011 when MyPlate replaced it.

Fun fact, we neurospicy people seem to communicate among ourselves just fine.

Only one episode of #thePitt left.

You know, one of the advantages of a history degree is you learn things like we used to tar and feather politicians in this country

2 open spots in my online birth and postpartum doula workshop Mar 14-20. April workshop enrolling now. DEI still happens here. harmonydoulatraining.com #birthdoula #postpartumdoula #perinatalhealth

PASSED COMMITTEE! More mothers die due to childbirth in Tennessee than in any other state in the nation. Sen. London Lamar is aiming to reverse this trend with Senate Bill 44, which would bolster doula birth support in Tennessee.

Her bill passed out of committee today.

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health The Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) is a federal data collection...

CDC Shutters PRAMS Program on Maternal and Infant Health talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cdc-s...

In 2023, the maternal mortality rate for Black women was 50.3 deaths per 100,000 live births and was significantly higher than rates for White (14.5), Hispanic (12.4), and Asian (10.7) women. www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/he...

"As they become known to and accepted by us, our feelings and the honest exploration of them become sanctuaries and spawning grounds for the most radical and daring of ideas."
- Audre Lorde.

Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did Since Texas banned abortion, no one has studied the statewide effects on pregnant women experiencing complications. Here’s how we sifted through data on millions of pregnancy hospitalizations and anal...

How we did it: Texas Won’t Study How Its Abortion Ban Impacts Women, So We Did

Since a friend is currently hospitalized, it's a good time to note that, as of February 8, 2025, the CDC estimated that in this influenza season there have been at least 29 million cases, 370,000 hospitalizations, and 16,000 deaths (including 68 children) *from flu*. Not too late to get a vax.

COVID-19 case fatality rate and infection fatality rate from 2020 to 2023: Nationwide analysis in Austria Comprehensive analyses of COVID-19 case fatality rates (CFRs) and infection fatality rates (IFRs) that span the entire pandemic are not yet available …

Journal of Infection and Public Health just published a paper summarizing case fatality rate (CFR) and infection mortality rate (IFR) for all of Austria from February 2020 through May 2023.

This thread will summarize and try to make sense of its key results.

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Public Health Websites Are Going Dark The health of the body politic—and our bodies—depends on the free flow of information. Here’s how to fight Trump’s censorship

“NIH’s Office of Research on Women’s Health dropped key pages including a portal about maternal morbidity and mortality.“

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Looks normal to me. You seem to be missing for piles though.

While my doula brain wonders how to say I [advocate] for [pregnant] and [birthing] [people], including [women] without using any now verboten words (which reminds me of the old "tell me what you do without telling me what you do" posts), my historian brain is having a kid in a candy store moment.

Fantastic news for book lovers doing everything they can to avoid Bezos' Amazon/Audible/Goodreads behemoth.

#books #booksky #ebooks #smallbusiness #shoplocal

Just a reminder that Medicaid is the largest single payer of pregnancy care in the U.S., covering more than 40% of U.S. births

Upcoming community birth & postpartum doula workshops: Feb 7-13, Mar 14-20, & Apr 6-15. Join live, online. Train from anywhere in the world. Small groups. Slow-paced once-a- week workshop starts today 5:30-9:30pm PT harmonydoulatraining.com #birthdoulatraining #postpartumdoulatraining #lactationed

In other news, water is wet.

I don't recall any pat downs. I didn't need any clear bags or concern about many toiletries I could bring. I never carried a water bottle or brought my own food on a plane. Everyone had to watch the same movie (assuming there was any in-flight entertainment) from a small screen way up the front.

Just another thing you never have to leave the house for?