Yeah, it's not just emotional support. The person supporting the person who is in labor is usually also there to be an advocate in a situation that is rife with medical abuse.
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Replying to @winceyville @__Carrie___ and
Same. You can't just send someone for stand-in. When you only have seconds between pains to open your eyes and convey what you need, it should be your life partner there - or at least someone you chose and discussed your needs extensively before.
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Replying to @luhugerth @winceyville and
You can though is my point In a cis heterosexual marriage there ought to be another woman advocate lined up _anyway_ because the vast majority of cis men can't be trusted to make decisions about birth giver healthcare
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @luhugerth and
This is the whole thing with the role of doulas, like after the 60s push to make husbands into the "second most involved person in the birth" they were like "Actually they're not very good at that job"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @luhugerth and
The hilarious thing is that's not even a socially uncorrectable problem but boy howdy have we done nothing to preclude it
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @arthur_affect and
I have a friend who's been on *both* sides of the original post so I'm going to ask her what she thinks since I feel like there's a lot of interesting points being made.
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Replying to @nivenus @Nymphomachy and
By both sides I mean she's a mother and she also works (and has worked for many years) in emergency on-call work. So I feel like she has a uniquely qualified perspective.
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Replying to @nivenus @Nymphomachy and
This is what she said.pic.twitter.com/oJiryzLbsD
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Replying to @nivenus @arthur_affect and
haha, I knew it see this is why I said "I don't care about the AITA I'm interested in the trolley problem" It's a manufactured narrative, it's the male edgelord version of that reddit fanfic trans people write about their parents transitioning and repenting for abusing them
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I mean, I dunno, there's commenters on the Reddit post who say this sounds all too plausible to them from having worked in first response (consistently kneejerk putting work above home issues)
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