#Fertility Planning

[shubhragoyal]

Pre-pregnancy counseling: Your stepping stone to parenthood. Get expert guidance and prepare for a healthy and informed pregnancy journey.

Learn more: https://www.drshubhragoyal.com/welcome/blogs/pre-pregnancy-counseling:-a-stepping-stone-to-parenthood

[mumcentralau]

Navigating The Journey to Motherhood: Fertility Tips for Aussie Mums

Are you ready to embark on the incredible journey of motherhood? Congratulations! As an Australian mum, you are in for an exciting and life-changing adventure. At Mum Central, we are here to support you every step of the way with fertility planning advice, tips, and information to help you navigate the path to motherhood with confidence and joy.

[shinobicyrus]

Obviously, the Alabama Supreme Court actually putting fetal personhood into law is another victory for creeping Christian Authoritarianism and yet another attack on health care, womens' rights, and bodily autonomy....but watching the Republicans flip their shit now that IVF clinics are in danger of closing is hilarious in a "the clown car is on fire" kind of way.

Because of course this was going to happen. Fetal personhood and anti-surrogacy (especially in the context of same-sex parents) has been bouncing around in conservative religious and legal circles (but what's the difference?) for decades, with those pesky liberals warning about it for just as long. Anyone with an inkling of awareness of the issue could have seen it coming.

So the fact that they were caught so off guard is myopic enough. And they're panicking for a very good reason, because yanno who generally goes to IVF clinics?

The people who can afford it.

Certainly the abortion bans in various states were bad, but if you had a lot of disposable income you could just...go to another state. Extremely inconvenient, yes, but not insurmountable. But this?

Oh my god, now the far-right pro-life politics that you've been cultivating for going on fifty years is now in a position to affect people with money? People that matter? Now you have to try and contend with the very extremist judges you installed that don't have to worry about getting elected and whose decisions are now putting you on the political chopping block?

Join us the in misery you're created for everyone else, assholes.

[tumblweeds-omegaverse]

random omegaverse thought:

There must be people who experience specific instinct things with indifference or boredom.

Procreative cycle coming up? "Crap, I've got plans this weekend...stupid skip weeks."

Caught an intriguing scent while walking? "But I need to get to work! Shut up brain."

Had a snap response to a distressed sound? "Who was it?! ...right, it's my day off, I can go back to sleep."

Somebody growled at them? "Kid, I'm not a rival, that's my sibling."

Super cozy cuddle session happening nearby? "I'm gonna pass tonight guys, no social battery left, maybe next time."

Group of friends heading out to flirt and check out other singles? "I'm coming with you but only to make sure you all get home safe."

Setting where fated mates or soul bonds or permanent marks are a thing? "Meh. I don't really want one or care if I ever get one."

People in the actual omegaverse would get as bored of their stuff, as we do of ours, you know? It could be interesting to see that kind of vibe in fics. Biological demands faced with all the excitement of paying bills or doing laundry or tying your shoes.

Even if that kind of energy might not drive a plot, it could be interesting to have as a contrast to the people who do have big feelings about them - good or bad.

There's the friends who can't wait til they have a pack of their own, and the one friend who isn't against it but couldn't care less. There's the group in the office who are all about scent compatibility tests and figuring out one's best match and what sprays most highlight it, and the coworker who has no intentions on putting that much effort in. There are parents who hover and protect their offspring by scenting them multiple times a day, and others who don't see what the fuss is as long as it's done in the morning.

...also: packs with introverts who show care by giving each other space. So often, closeness is depicted through physical touch and tactile affection, but comfortable silence is meaningful too. Knowing people are near, but not having to interact until you're ready. Sitting in the same room doing different things, knowing that all it takes is a "hey, look at this" to share what you're up to. People understanding and accepting each other's differing or fluctuating needs for how and when to recharge. Seeing somebody reaching out or sharing space, beyond what's their norm, as a signal of the fact that they care.

[transingthoseformers]

Cracky idea: Megatron discovers he's carrying shortly after arriving on the Lost Light. He thought Shockwave's experiments would've rendered him sterile, but apparently not!

As for the sire? Well. It's a bit complicated. Or maybe not.

After Megatron was returned to his cell, Starscream came by, most likely wearing his crown, being all Starscream-y. Suddenly, Starscream stops, leering at Megatron and says, "You know, I've always wanted to frag you."

Megatron ponders this, shrugs, and unlocks his panels. He's not particular about privacy, and this might be the last opportunity for some interfacing.

Afterwards, the scent of ozone heavy in the air, Starscream throws an arm over his optics and says, "I had no idea you could even do that with a valve..."

Megatron pats him on the shoulder, and that's that.

And that's why he finds himself on a ship crewed by Autobots with a newspark sired by his former SIC. The question is, should he contact Starscream or wait for the bitlet to arrive?

Jdjdhhdjjgx noooo not

Starscream: I've always wanted you carnally

Megatron: why not now?

Like

He absolutely rolled with it, and look where it got him, surprise pregnancy land

I think he should wait until shenanigans time where they're contacting Starscream and Cybertron for something else and btw Screamer you sparked up your ex-commandar—

[seaworthee]

just forced my mum to watch ep 1 of HOTD w me. i fucking forgot OTTO was the first person to suggest Rhaenyra take Daemon’s place as Viserys’ heir

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jill Filipovic at Substack:

Last week, the Southern Baptist Convention voted to collectively oppose the use of in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and pressure lawmakers to curtail the procedure. Under the terms of the resolution, SBC members voted “to reaffirm the unconditional value and right to life of every human being, including those in an embryonic stage, and to only utilize reproductive technologies consistent with that affirmation, especially in the number of embryos generated in the I.V.F. process.” Instead of turning to assisted reproduction, the resolution urges couples struggling with infertility to “look to God for hope.” And, perhaps most importantly, the resolution does not simply call on Southern Baptists to change their personal behavior; it tells them to “advocate for the government to restrain actions inconsistent with the dignity and value of every human being, which necessarily includes frozen embryonic human beings.” In other words, this isn’t just an SBC resolution serving as guidance for faithful SBC members, who have now been told to not avail themselves of IVF. It is a call for Southern Baptists to try to impose their radical theology on the rest of us.

The SBC is the largest Evangelical group in the US. They are strongly anti-abortion, although that wasn’t always the case. According to a 1970 survey, a majority of Southern Baptists supported legal abortion under some circumstances, including for reasons of mental or physical health, rape, or incest. Throughout the 1970s, the SBC was a fairly restrained on abortion, adopting, in its own telling, “a middle ground between the extreme of abortion on demand and the opposite extreme of all abortion as murder.” By 1976 the group was clearer in its ideological opposition to abortion, but also in its “conviction about the limited role of government in dealing with matters relating to abortion.” And generally, at least until the 1970s and 80s, opposition to abortion and contraception was less an Evangelical issue than a Catholic one. By 2021, the same SBC that said calling abortion murder was “extreme” was declaring “unequivocally that abortion is murder.”

[...] It may not surprise you to learn that the SBC opposition to IVF began at its Theological Seminary, and is based on an ideology formed by exclusively male religious leaders. The SBC’s IVF resolution was written by two men, and introduced by those two men. One of those men, Albert Mohler Jr., the president of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, told the New York Times that this isn’t just about theological clarification; it’s about political activism. “I want to do more than nudge Republicans who are against us on this,” he said. “I want to call them out for their error and inconsistency.” It’s working: While many Republicans claim to support IVF, just days after the SBC vote, the party blocked a bill in Congress that would have protected the procedure nationwide. [...]

This is fairly straightforward when it comes to abortion and contraception, both innovations that do help families more broadly, but primarily benefit women. Both have been shown to increase education for women and girls, increase women’s economic independence, keep women and children alive longer, help women escape abusive relationships, allow women to work for pay, allow women to enjoy huge gains in equality and wellbeing. IVF initially looks more complex because it is so often used to help families have children, something religious groups generally promote. And many, many Evangelicals and Catholics have used IVF to have children — these are groups that, after all, highly value childbearing. But IVF has also grown in popularity as more women have delayed marriage and childbearing, something religious conservatives see as a threat to the nuclear family. Even religious women are marrying later, often because they want to marry someone they actually love and want some modicum of independence before they tie the knot. I think this is a good thing, and it certainly makes for happier marriages. But if your theology holds that heterosexual marriage is really the only acceptable path to family formation and that the nuclear, male-headed family is the core organizing force of society and all other family make-ups should be heavily discouraged and are even deeply immoral, you don’t really care if marriages are happier; you care that they are common and compulsory.

People of all ages face infertility, but the biological reality is that fertility declines as humans age (men too!), and so IVF is more likely to be used by women in their late 30s and 40s. I don’t think women are waking up at 40 shocked that they forgot to get pregnant and then run to the IVF clinic. But I do think that the existence of fertility treatments takes some of the psychic pressure off of women to marry young, especially if they know they want kids. The knowledge that there are technologies that can help the reproductive process makes it a tiny bit easier for women to refuse to settle for less-than-great men because their church tells them that their biological clock is ticking every day they live past 25. Constraining access to IVF, then, fits neatly with the broader “pro-life” aim of returning women and men alike to traditional gender roles, with men dominant and women subservient, dependent, and primarily valued for their reproductive capacity.

Unfortunately for the SBC and other conservative, misogynist religious groups, IVF is also really popular, including among religious conservatives and Republicans. But that has hardly stopped them before. The SBC, remember, was founded on the very premise of violent minority rule: They wanted a minority group of white men to sit atop the social, political, and economic hierarchy, and even have the right to force other human beings into slavery. They have spent decades pushing laws, policies, and norms that bar or discourage other groups from formal participation in various public spheres, and certainly from challenging white men for power or influence. That they are yet again advocating for a small minority — religious opponents of IVF — to determine morality, law, opportunity, and even basic freedom for everyone else is not some sort of aberration; it’s at the heart of the SBC’s very reason for existing.

Historically, the SBC has sometimes lost, like it did on slavery and segregation. More often, though, it’s been a bellwether for where Evangelical groups, and now by extension the Republican Party, are headed — that’s been the case on abortion, contraception, sex ed in schools, and a great many other issues in the sphere of family, gender, and reproduction. That they are taking up IVF at a moment when their movement has won on abortion in the Supreme Court but is getting pummeled in the court of public opinion shows pretty clearly that public opinion doesn’t discourage them, because this is an organization that has never favored democratic law-making. It simply wants its theology to govern. And it just showed us where the Evangelical anti-abortion movement expects the law to go.

Jill Filipovic lays down the stakes of the SBC’s anti-IVF resolution that the messengers voted on and passed.

The SBC’s IVF vote is part of a trend of a war on all reproductive rights by conservatives. #IVF

[fearotica]

Happy bunny day

The day where we celebrate breeding Jacob Alden like a bunny rabbit

He is risen (dick)

[nostalgia-tblr]

you would think that i, with my Many Experience of writing fanfiction, would have foreseen the obvious trickiness of writing threesome porn where all of them are the same person and two of them have the same name and same pronouns and i have drawn attention to the fact that they look the same as each other but -

[shubhragoyal]

Pre-Pregnancy Counseling: A Stepping Stone to Parenthood

Do you have a baby bump? Yes! Then, before you jump in the air with joy, you should take a look at pregnancy counseling, because expecting a baby requires a lot of acceptance and awareness, and that makes it a stepping stone to parenthood, a path of responsibility and mindfulness.

Pre-pregnancy counseling is a motto that pre-empts the certain risk factors pertaining a women’s, the fetus and neonatal health from entering an unfavorable phase. The one-to-one interaction with the professional can be a great aide in optimizing the health care of mother and child, which also extends to the family ties, as their care is invested from the first days.

Education about the pregnancy journey in pre-pregnancy course is open to all genders, sexualities and parents, as they offer a holistic approach to better parenting. Regardless of whether you are planning a pregnancy or using contraception, the pre-pregnancy counseling is applicable to both parties.

As the saying goes, health status can't be the same forever, over growing time potential risks can occur anytime. Thus, pre-pregnancy counseling does not last for a day, but it occurs several times for ensuring a healthy and happy baby journey!

Day in and out whenever an expectant mother gets counselled, fresh knowledge is added to her advantage for handling the situation. There is a certainty of several chronic conditions viz; diabetes, hypertension, thyroid and mental health require monitoring during pre-pregnancy for a desirable outcome.

In the pre-pregnancy counseling sessions, a crucial assessment for examining STDs is a must with a vivid screening for any probable genetic conditions that might pass down to the life growing inside.

The other important matter of concern here is to debrief on possible strong addictions namely, liquor, nicotine consumption, drugs or any other medicines taken for some underlining or nonmedical reasons.

There is also a significant survey conducted on partner violence during intimacy during prepregnancy counseling as it has entirely a direct impact on the mother and child both.

The expert guidance - Suggestions from the desk of the American College of Obstetrician and Gynecologists

The ACOG institute emphasizes the opportunity to stroke the iron hard and discuss overall wellness, and healthy habits as a routine irrespective of the patient for a successful outcome.

“Would you like to become pregnant next year?” Serves the purpose, of the right to speak out one's heart for suitable guidance without coyness.

The goal of prepregnancy counseling is to ensure a pregnancy that is away from the instructions and if any challenges occur one has the tact to handle it with expert guidance.

An annual influenza inoculation is mandatory for every patient unbiased as it is for additional benefit.

Prepregnancy is not limited to basic health checkups and discussions a patient's lifestyle and underlining conditions are crucial to tap on! If discovered to be a specific virus prone or any infection or allergies due to climate/ certain food types must be cautioned beforehand as travelling is a massive no.

Appropriate nourishment and vitamins are so significant for a healthy pregnancy tenure. Always fall back on your medical adviser for the proportion of food intake that suits your body the best during the prepregnancy period.

Read More: https://www.drshubhragoyal.com/welcome/blogs/pre-pregnancy-counseling:-a-stepping-stone-to-parenthood

[just-bendy]

Hey Bendy, if you ever met your true love, and if it were possible, would you have kids?

Ahhh, now ain't that the dream~? Finally meetin' the one, gettin' married, movin' out and settling down with 'em, havin' a kid or two... As much of a Casanova as I am, thinkin' about spendin' the rest of my life with someone I'm truly in love with warms my heart. Y'know, I'd be a great dad, at least I think so. Henry sure would be glad to have more grandkids too, hahaha!

[anneliesembsims]

The nausea that Amethyst wrote off as nerves didn't go away, so she decided to do a test.

It was positive.

[didanawisgi]

[transingthoseformers]

Should Overlord lay eggs?

Yes

Definitely

Eggs for everyone

But I feel like he'd have an interesting reaction

[the-winters-prince]

anyways FC! Lleu is crazyyy. If Lleu were a woman living in the 21th century he would have secretly extracted Medraut's sperm to have a child and make him pay child support just so Medraut has to think about him every time he signs the check

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Alanna Vagianos at HuffPost:

Republican Sens. Ted Cruz (Texas) and Katie Britt (Ala.) on Monday introduced legislation to protect in vitro fertilization, months after a controversial Alabama Supreme Court ruling that led providers to halt the fertility procedure. The IVF Protection Act seeks to protect IVF nationwide by barring states from receiving Medicaid funding if they implement a ban on the fertility treatment. The bill defines IVF as a procedure where “eggs are collected from ovaries and manually fertilized by sperm for later placement inside of a uterus.” The legislation states that it does not stop states from enacting health and safety protocols within IVF clinics. [...]

In February, Senate Republicans blocked a bill to protect IVF. Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill.) introduced the Access to Family Building Act, which would have established a statutory right to IVF and other fertility treatments, as well as given physicians the right to provide fertility care without the fear of prosecution. The bill would also have allowed insurance companies to cover the cost of fertility treatments, which can be extremely high. [...] The majority of House Republicans have supported legislation that would threaten fertility treatments on the national level, even though Donald Trump, the presumptive GOP presidential nominee, claims he supports IVF. Several other House Republicans, however, have introduced two resolutions that expressed strong support for IVF but had zero legislative power to actually protect the fertility treatment. And the same week the majority of House Republicans endorsed an abortion ban that would threaten IVF, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna (R-Fla.) introduced a bill that would have safeguarded the treatment.

Republican Senators Katie Britt and Ted Cruz introduce a window dressing bill called the IVF Protection Act that purports to protect In Vitro Fertilization but does nothing to actually protect IVF. These same Senators voted against the Access to Family Building Act, a bill that would have meaningfully protected IVF access. #ProtectIVF

See Also:

Daily Kos: Ted Cruz pretends to care about IVF in desperate bid for reelection

Reproductive Freedom For All: Reproductive Freedom for All Responds to Cruz and Britt’s Phony IVF Bill