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Re: Remote work may have fueled a baby boom among U.S. women

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Post by dilap »

Auracle wrote: post #393
dilap wrote: post #249

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Without a doubt, a baby can be formula-fed and thrive. It also seems certain that there are advantages to being breast-fed. Exactly how strong these are is hard to stay -- as far as I know, all the research is observational, and so it becomes hard to tease out what is the effect of breast-feeding and what is just coming along for the ride (correlated w/ the type of person that prioritizes breast-feeding). It's still…

There absolutely are RCTs out there for breast milk vs formula- here’s one example: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2939272/

Very interesting; thx!

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Post by dilap »

enra wrote: post #384
dilap wrote: post #283

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No disagreement about any of those things. I would just add: It should be easy for women who wish to be with their babies and breast-feed them to do so. It should also be easy for dads! BTW, I'm about two weeks out from becoming a father. I only get 2 months paternity leave, but if I were the mother, I'd get 4! This seems unfair to me, but it's certainly better than if the policy were reversed . It seems like there's…

Congrats! I have 2-month old and before he was born lot of people said to me that "dads can't do much in the first 6 months". I was like ok, we'll see how it goes. After he was born, I quickly realize dads can absolutely do everything except feed the baby directly from the breast. Breastfeeding itself, depends on the baby and mom, is fairly quick, maybe like takes 15mins every few hours. That leaves about ~22 hours e…

Thanks! What you say makes a lot of sense to me. (And for my part, I already feel a ridiculous amount of bond/attachment/love, just feeling the little guy/girl squirming around in there!)

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Post by throwaway27727 »

mcguire wrote: post #311
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Breastfeeding is overhyped. Both my sibling and I, along with my wife and her siblings were formula fed. My kids were 100% formula-fed as well, because my wife decided she didn't want to waste her time pumping. Both generations are perfectly normal and healthy. We all caught COVID with only minimal symptoms. Not having to breastfeed took an enormous amount of stress off my wife, and allowed us to split the work of ra…

I have friends in North Carolina who had a daughter a couple of years ago. While they were in the hospital, a woman came by their room wearing scrubs and with the usual lanyard of cards around her neck. She told them that she was a lactation consultant and impressed on them that it was vitally important that the mother breastfeed. Unfortunately, they had a hard time getting their daughter to cooperate. At their first…

I'm sure others with more experience could chime in, but when my wife gave birth there absolutely was a lactation consultant who did much the same as yours, but was affiliated with the hospital and could be asked to come to the postpartum room or NICU and provide assistance.

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Post by schredder »

kalleboo wrote: post #395
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Yes we absolutely should encourage bonding and normalize public breastfeeding. But cut out the other breastfeeding nonsense. The evidence is not at all overwhelming, and flies in the face of a couple of generations of formula fed people who turned out fine. All anyone does by repeating that line is make people feel bad when they can’t or don’t want to breastfeed. Especially women.

The generations who were raised in the fumes of leaded gasoline also seemed "fine" but the long term statistics after we switched to unleaded gasoline show that we're way better off now.

An equivalence that does not bear out for baby formula.

Whoever wants to feed their baby breast milk or formula, do what you want. There’s enough anxiety in raising a child, we should be aware of when we might be increasing it in others for no good reason. GP could’ve supplemented their baby’s diet with formula while his wife was gone and everyone would’ve been fine.

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Post by hulitu »

bartimus wrote: post #403
djohnston wrote: post #341

How does a baby boom only exist among women? I don't understand the headline

Exactly. They somehow managed to do it without men?

Since when needs a woman a man to make a baby ? As far as i know this has not been the case since at least 2000 years.

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Post by busterarm »

maxbond wrote: post #144
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> women have stepped up for their families often to the detriment of their own careers Forcing 2 household incomes was/is awful for a healthy society. Women are the only humans that can produce children and they have to do it during a relatively short time window - especially if we want to reproduce at replacement level. Raising children should be regarded as one of the most important things a woman can do because th…

> Raising children should be regarded as one of the most important things a woman can do because they’re the only ones that can do it. This seems pretty reductionist to me. Men can absolutely raise children. Husbands in heterosexual couples should absolutely be raising their children and not leaving the entire task of raising them to their wives. Gay men can also raise children. I don't think you meant to be disrespe…

Men can but society certainly does not respect them in that role.

Just look at the amount of suspicion that men draw in elementary teaching roles.

This may seem reasonable but it also often ends marriages, which is arguably a worse outcome for the child(ren).

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Post by matthewowen »

foobarian wrote: post #305
matthewowen wrote: post #107

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I would suggest that most grandparents don't want to look after their grandkids for 40 hours a week. And for that matter, many grandparents have jobs of their own – the average age of a first time grandparent in the USA is 50.

Maybe the separate housing is the root of the problem. In more traditional EU societies, grandparents and parents live in the same house. This means one less set of people needs to generate income to pay for housing.

IME, that is quite unusual in Europe.

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Post by throwaway27727 »

Terr_ wrote: post #308
bombcar wrote: post #176

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Kids adore doing whatever their parents are doing, so giving them some "office equipment" can be a great way to get them "working away" for quite some time. Maybe I should dig up some old IBM PCs, those things were tank-like, but likely the kids would start trying to beat each other with the keyboard.

> Kids adore doing whatever their parents are doing Sometimes I worry that many parents focus in "teaching" or "instilling" a desired behavior at the expense of "role-modeling" it through personal lived demonstration. The latter can be far more powerful because of how kids are hardwired to mimic adults... at least up until a certain age where they go the opposite way. :P > Maybe I should dig up some old IBM PCs It's…

I was playing with my baby's fisher-price rotary phone (the rolling one with the googly eyes) and realized that in the past they would have had much more fun playing with it, since they saw mommy and daddy doing the same thing. It's unfortunate that much of the tools we use today exist virtually, making our kids interests totally virtual as well.

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Post by ethbr0 »

namecheapTA wrote: post #364
ethbr0 wrote: post #343

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Also, you can generally call any dealership and ask to speak to the internet sales / fleet department. They're usually (at least at Ford) compensated on volume-moved-above-minimum, not profit-per-vehicle.

They are definitely compensated via a gross profit commission split just like others at the dealership. They do have volume bonuses to make up for the fact that most of their deals will be low or no profit, but if you inquire on the internet about buying a rare model, it's not like they're going to discount it drastically and get a low commission... It's a rare model after all.

YMMV, but I got it directly from a roommate who worked in internet sales at a Ford dealership. Volume >> profit.
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