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Thank you so much for this medal, I will cherish it 😁

I thought distilled water was bad for humans to consume as it leeches nutrients from you?

What. That can't be true. Maybe there's some advantage, like less fluoride etc. But it's not true they can't drink rap water...

Babies, babies can't have tap water.

~6 months you start with cooled boiled water.

~12 months you can move onto tap water.

todlers can only have distilled water

I’m pretty sure that’s unhealthy (lack of minerals)

Let's be real, the whole "only mom and dad are supposed to FAFO on their own" is an extremely stupid societal expectation. Humans were never meant to live as isolated animals, always in groups

This is super tangential, but I knew someone who had a miscarriage which caused a mental health crisis. Or perhaps more accurately, the crisis was caused by severe isolation and implicit stigma around her grief. She told me that after the crisis, she was surrounded by people who had experienced miscarriages too. She was baffled because this sure would have been helpful before the mental breakdown.

People are expected to be so strong that ultimately it just weakens us at the community and the individual level

In the Netherlands, "kraamverzorgenden" come by the house of new parents every day for ~the first week to show you the ropes, and just in general to help with chores and/or entertaining brothers and/or sisters.

When you’re planning on having kids, or pregnant, your health care providers will recommend you take some parenting classes. There’s ways to learn, don’t let your parents not being there for you stop you. You will also likely get recommended to get a doula and midwife.

In my experience, it's not so much everyone needs to figure it out for themselves. It is filtering through invalid opinions and non-applicable information.

It's the same reason it is so hard being a doctor, "Oh, your baby is crying? Here's a few thousand things it could be, and tomorrow, it will probably be a different reason."

Unless they've been using the same sippy cups for decades, I don't think grandma would've helped with this.

While I don't disagree, (personally, I'm not about it but people should be able to plug in to a local community for common advice of mundane things) parents also just...learned things themselves. And sometimes it wasn't correct. I've spoken to my sister-in-law who told me about all the unsolicited advice she's gotten about motherhood. And how much of it was basically superstition, not medical advice.

As much as I love my independence, I can't help but look at society and think that things have gone very wrong at some point.

But I listened to 90 seconds of a podcast from my favorite fitness influencer, so basically I have an MD now, right?

first-time parents leart all of this from their in-laws.

And so much of that was dangerous bullshit, it's unbelievable. So many children died because of that.