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#childless

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Keira (She/Her)

Who doesn't love a new baby in the office!?

I love it, personally. I will *never* give up an opportunity to coo at, make faces at, and/or cuddle a baby.

But quite a lot of childless people find it really upsetting. And you probably wouldn't know if one of your colleagues was having a miscarriage right now, or struggling with fertility etc.They don't hate babies. They don't hate joy. They don't want to cry at work or have to explain to all their colleagues about child death, or their feelings of failure, or their heartbreak.

If you manage people without children, and you know you're having a staff member bring their new baby in, it would be good to give people a heads up, so they can opt out, or better yet, ask the parent bringing the baby in to stay in an area and let people come to them, instead of going desk to desk.

#childless#cnbc#management
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Keira (She/Her)

Just in case there are any gynaecologist practice managers on here (unlikely), I'd like to express a wish.

Please, please, please, if you have space, separate your pre and post natal patients from your infertility, non-obstetric, and childless patients.

Or at least balance up the info posters a little, so at least a few are about childlessness. Even just a gonorhea poster would be welcomed.

The usual waiting rooms are packed with babies, pregnant people, posters about breastfeeding, and happy smiling baby faces everywhere.

I find it a tiny bit upsetting even now, but I can't imagine how it must be for someone actively miscarrying, reaching the end of an unsuccessful fertility journey, or who lost a child or children, where it's all so raw.

I'm not expecting a world without pregnant people, but maybe a tiny acknowledgement that women's and gynaecological health isn't only about babies, would be great. We're ~20%.

#childless#gynaecology
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Keira (She/Her)

I wouldn't usually post things from linked in here, but a childless friend shared this with me and I appreciated it.

Before you rush to assume that all childless people have an easy, chosen, blissfully ignorant life, take a minute the consider that maybe just because that was *your* life *before* children, it doesn't mean that's the reality for others.

Also, lots of childless people know what it's like to be responsible for children (carers, parentified siblings, bereaved parents, foster carers, childcare workers, nannies etc).

I'm happy to give grace to parents doing it tough, but this sort of self-obsessed other shaming pisses me off.

linkedin.com/posts/stephanie-p

www.linkedin.comStephanie Joy Phillips on LinkedIn: #childless #disenfranchisedgriefMel Goodman when you feel the need to discredit others in order to raise yourself take a moment to think of your words. Perhaps the childless person had a…
#childless#CNBC#ChildlessNotByChoice
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BronMason

@paka

Our VP-elect J D Vance apparently got the Russian propaganda memo about starting a war on people with no kids.

The thing I don’t get is that in the recent past human overpopulation was thought to be a danger to earth due to its limited resources. China even made having more than one kid illegal. Yet now certain politicians regard people not having kids as a threat.
#overpopulation #childless

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Mark

Kremlin finds new enemies to target — Russians without kids

More than a decade since #Russian lawmakers banned LGBTQ+ #propaganda, the #Kremlin's self-declared crusade for “traditional values” has found a new target — Russians who don’t want children.

Russian State #Duma voted to outlaw support & promotion of “childfree propaganda,” effectively imposing fines on those who express such views.

kyivindependent.com/kremlin-fi

The Kyiv Independent · Kremlin finds new enemies to target — Russians without kidsMore than a decade since Russian lawmakers banned "LGBTQ+ propaganda," the Kremlin's self-declared crusade for "traditional values" has found a new target — Russians who don't want children. On Nov. 12, the Russian State Duma voted to outlaw the support and promotion of "childfree propaganda," effectively imposing fines on those who
#dictatorship#Orwellian#dystopian
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Kate Hildenbrand

I'm allergic to myself apparently. I got the period flu in full force, because my body is overwhelmed. So, flu symptoms on top of period pain.

I have another appointment to beg for a hysterectomy in a month. During the last one, the dude declared that I "hadn't fulfilled my responsibility to society yet" (i.e. bearing children) and then wrote a letter that I got "hysteric" for demanding someone do something to help me.

#childless#endometriosis#periodflu
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Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴

#Childless #GOP candidate posed w/ friend's wife & kids for campaign video: NYT

Derrick Anderson (R) is running for Rep. Spanberger's* House seat in #VA07 against Eugene Vindman (D).

50yrs on since Tricky Dick, and the GOP's still the party of dirty tricks.
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*Abigail Spanberger (D) resigned her seat to run for #VAgov to succeed Glenn Youngkin (R) this year.

#VAsen #Elections2024 #Virginia

huffpost.com/entry/childless-g

HuffPost · Childless GOP Candidate Posed With Friend's Wife And Kids For Campaign Video: NYTBy Sebastian Murdock
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