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Four New Studies on Pregnancy That Didn’t Get the Attention They Deserve [Emily Oster, ParentData]

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  • Four new studies on pregnancy were discussed, which examine group prenatal care, COVID vaccines and pregnancy, and preterm birth.
  • Group prenatal care did not lower the rate of preterm birth overall or within Black participants.
  • COVID vaccination during the second trimester of pregnancy provides antibody protection through six months.
  • High-grade chronic inflammation of the placenta increases the risk of recurrent preterm birth by 37%, and a short cervical length within the first 24 hours after birth predicted a recurrence of preterm birth.

Click HERE for original. Published December 22, 2022

Screaming on the Inside [Anne Helen Petersen, Culture Study]

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  • Jess Grose’s book “Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood” was made possible because of her parents, who were able to provide secondary parenting for her two elementary-age daughters.
  • The book is rooted in sociology and ungaslights, underlining that the problem with parenting is not the individual’s, but how we have organized society.
  • Jess examines why we expect to feel good during pregnancy and the history of how these ideas developed.
  • The subtitle of the book “unsustainable” is based on the idea that individual choices are not enough to fix the issue and that we need support systems from the government, work, and families to sustain parenting.
  • Jess’s advice is to take baby steps and find one thing today that you don’t have to do that you could simply not do.
  • In order to get people on board for changes that don’t directly affect them, people need to talk about their own experiences in their own communities.
  • Finally, Jess hopes that the primary takeaway from the book is to leave space for each others’ real feelings, which is an important part of change.

Click HERE for the original. Published December 21, 2022

Breast Milk Storage [Emily Oster, ParentData]

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  • Breast milk is generally very stable, with low concentrations of bacteria at typical storage temperatures.
  • The CDC recommends not mixing multiple temperatures of breast milk and not reusing a partially used bottle.
  • Studies suggest that these rules are overly cautious and breast milk can be stored safely for longer than recommended.
  • Refreezing breast milk after it has thawed is generally safe, and mixing of temperatures is likely safe as well.
  • Reusing a partially used bottle of breast milk is also likely safe, but more research is needed.

Click HERE for original. Published December 19, 2022

When Should You Brush Your Teeth? [Emily Oster, ParentData]

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  • Brushing your teeth is an important part of oral hygiene to remove food debris and plaque, which can lead to cavities and tooth decay.
  • Highly acidic foods can soften enamel and make it more easily worn away by brushing.
  • If your breakfast is not highly acidic, brushing after is fine.
  • If your breakfast is highly acidic, brushing before may be better, and flossing or rinsing can also help remove food debris.

Click HERE for original. Published December 15, 2022

One Thing: Getting Kids to Eat [Emily Oster, ParentData]

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  • The goal: to make dinner less unpleasant for parents with picky kids
  • Approach: set expectations that you can control and focus on what you can control, not what you can’t
  • Ideas: serve vegetables before the meal, hold fruit back, no pressuring kids to eat, involve kids in dinner prep
  • Final thoughts: setting the right expectations is great, but it can be hard to be gentle with ourselves when other people are criticizing our children

Click HERE for original. Published December 12, 2022

What’s Wrong With Parenting in America—and How to Fix It Emily Oster, ParentData]

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  • Jessica Grose and Yael Schonbrun discuss parenting in America, the problems and how to fix them.
  • Jessica Grose’s book, Screaming on the Inside: The Unsustainability of American Motherhood, looks at the unreasonable expectations put on American mothers and how many of them are contradictory.
  • Yael Schonbrun’s book, Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (When Everything Feels Like Too Much), focuses on working parenthood and how to build the positive in order to make social progress.
  • The problem American parents are facing is that there is too much expected of them and not enough time, money, or social support to do it.
  • Yael’s Buddhist allegory of the first and second arrow explains how we can be mindful of the things we can’t control and less judgmental of ourselves.
  • Jessica Grose and Yael Schonbrun discussed structural issues and ways to optimize within current structures to make parenting and work easier.
  • Changes like paid leave are likely to happen in the next 20 years.
  • Technology can make work more flexible, but it will take time to adjust.
  • Subtracting from an overly full schedule can reduce stress.
  • Guilt is a normal emotion, but it is important to assess whether it is based on a real harm.

Click HERE for original. Published December 8, 2022

The Politics of Consciousness | video lecture with Yuval Noah Harari [Yuval Noah Harari]

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• Consciousness is characterized by the capacity to suffer and is the source of political authority in modern societies
• The capacity to suffer is the determining factor of an entity‘s ethical and political standing
• Questions of consciousness have an impact on ethical and political debates, from race and gender to ecology and taxation
• Victimless crimes are now judged based on the potential to cause suffering to sentient beings, as opposed to being judged by divine commandment
• Theories of consciousness should be able to help us measure and scale suffering in order to be considered legitimate
• Debate is still raging about animal welfare and whether animals have the same kind of consciousness as humans
• Scholars must be careful when making claims about the ability to measure and scale consciousness as it could have explosive ethical and political implications
• If a strong Theory Of Consciousness is developed, it could lead to hierarchy of Consciousness between humans and other animals
• As artificial intelligence progresses, it is important to remember the difference between intelligence and consciousness and not privilege intelligent computers over conscious humans.

Published December 7, 2022
Visit YouTube to watch Yuval Noah Harari’s original lecture The Politics of Consciousness | video lecture with Yuval Noah Harari

Where Does Data Come From? [Emily Oster, ParentData]

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  • Data for population characteristics like obesity rate is usually collected from surveys, such as the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
  • NHANES is designed as a representative sample, but non-response can create imbalances in the data that need to be addressed with reweighting.
  • Re-weighting adjusts for differences between the sample and the overall population by giving more weight to characteristics that are underrepresented in the sample.
  • Non-response can lead to selection bias, which can make it difficult to draw precise conclusions from survey data.

Click HERE for original. Published December 5, 2022

How Much Aerobic Exercise Is Safe During Pregnancy? [Emily Oster, ParentData]

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  • Aerobic exercise is generally safe during pregnancy; maximum heart rate should not exceed 150 bpm.
  • Fetal heart rate often increases with maternal exercise, but usually not into a zone of concern.
  • Exercise has benefits for maternal health, but there is a slightly higher risk for injury due to loosened ligaments.

Click HERE for original. Published December 1, 2022

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