I keep seeing anti-vaxxers, freebirth advocates, etc., be like, “Well, what did babies do before modern medicine, then?!”
This. They did a lot of this.
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@stuartl True, but the big freebirth influencers cause tons of tragedies while raking in millions. And in this particular cemetery plot, seven of the nine children were stillborn (or died immediately after birth) rather than dying from illness, so I feel like the freebirth movement is relevant.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2025/nov/22/free-birth-society-linked-to-babies-deaths-investigation
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@stuartl I think the distinction for me is that there isn’t a multimillion-dollar industry built by charismatic, smart-sounding people posing as authorities (even as legit healthcare workers!) to convince naive young adults on ebikes, who’ve only just learned to ride, that riding without a helmet is not only safe but MUCH SAFER than using one. Many of these people who’ve suffered freebirth tragedies are first-time moms trusting women who’ve given birth half a dozen times and claim to be experts.
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@PamelaBarroway Absolutely. My dad is over a decade younger than your mom and he remembers kids in his community dying of polio, which he himself survived as a toddler. His mom was frantic to get her kids the vaccine the second it was available.
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@rspfau@ecoevo.social That’s so cool! And I wasn’t expecting to come across a Tarleton professor on here. I know several kids who are currently Tarleton students, and my nephew who’s in high school has done a bunch of range events there.
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@deankirkman@mastodon.social Replace “my kid” with “a bunch of my niblings,” and I’m that option. 😅
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@mtconleyuk It is EXTREMELY diluted, about five times as diluted as recommended for a homemade fountain pen wash, so hopefully it’ll be okay. The water just was not cutting it.
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@stacey_campbell A bit like my grandmother, who lost both of her baby brothers on the same day in the late 1920s. 💔 This sort of thing was still happening not that long ago, in the grand scheme of things.
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@poleguy I do agree with you that our culture should be more open about stillbirth, but I honestly haven’t seen a big shift in burial customs around it. The vast majority of modern miscarriages happen early, and those early miscarriages never would have received headstones. I have friends who’ve had second- or third-trimester stillbirths, and those babies all have graves and headstones; the main difference is that now they also all have names, instead of just being marked “son” or “daughter.”
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@marcas This is really helpful, thank you. I knew about the ‘swim parallel to shore’ advice, but had no idea how to actually spot a rip current.
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@marcas Unfamiliarity and lack of information can be so dangerous. I’m a highly experienced river swimmer and thus excellent at handling river currents, but they behave *so* differently from ocean currents, and I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve been in the ocean. Being informed makes me feel a bit less leery of going to a beach for a swim.
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@roguefoam I think the deadline is June 30, so we have time to do a few more backups first. I’m not sure what I’ll do after that because I do buy quite a few Kindle-exclusive self-published books when they’re on sale.