friend: “So My friend is a doula and at the last hospital birth she attended the doctor wouldn’t release the baby to the mother to be breastfed until it had taken a bottle first. It’s apparently policy.”
Hathor: “Policy?”
Friend: “yep”
Hathor:”Idiocy is one thing, but entrenched meanness disguised as policy… it’s time for a class action lawsuit.”

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This comic is related to this musing: Regulating Kids!

child: Stop Mommy! Cry! Cry! No Mommy No!
Mommy: “You’re just a baby! A big giant baby!”
child: No! No! Waaaah! sniff.
Mommy:”I’m going to force the big crybaby into the baby swing!”
child:Waaah! No! Mommy! Waaah! Cry!
Mommy:”I’ve got my camera, I’m taking a big picture of the big baby!”
Hathor: “Excuse me? That’s a very interesting parenting technique, what is it? Oh, wait…let me guess!”
Hathor:”You see, I’m a bit of a parenting technique aficionado. Let me see…Oh! I’ve got it!”
Hathor: “It’s called ‘public shaming’ first developed in the dark ages…”
Hathor: “And the goal is a meek, frightened, cowering child who easily submits to bullying!”
Mommy:”Harumph! We’re leaving!”
Hathor: “Some people have strange goals for their children.”

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Introducing the All-New Prego-Robo 2000! Hospital Edition.

Practice Births on A Robot!

Realistic Sounds!

Programmable Complications!

Nurse says: “A live Robot-Baby Every Time!”
Another Nurse Says:“The Prego-Robo 2000 acts and sounds so realistic! I feel like I’m at a real birth! ANDit has volume controls and an on/off switch when I’m finished with my shift!”

The perfect way to practice delivering babies, the Prego-Robo just lies there and stays out of your way.

Doctor: “I’ve been delivering babies at this Big Corporate Hospital for 17 years, and this is the first natural birth I’ve seen!

This comic is related to this Musing: The Birth Simulator Robot!

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Nowadays the way a woman gives birth is complicated…it involves frantic travel…machinery…blinky lights and beeping noises…as well as a support staff of 4 or 5 people maybe more…and happens in a ’sterile’ environment.

Yet it never occurs to us to ask ourselves, Have our bodies really changed so much?
And do we really need all these complications?

this comic is related to this comic: The Way Women Gave Birth!

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At the beginning of time the way that women gave birth was simple…for a woman’s first birth she would be quietly and unobtrusively attended by their mother (or a mother-figure)
But for her next births, the woman would prepare a quiet, secluded spot and once labor started she would go there…and birth her babies confidently, alone. And that’s how it was for a long, long time.

This Comic is related to this comic: Nowadays the Way Women Give Birth!

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