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They do the same thing to intellectually disabled parents too where they take the baby away as soon as the mother has given birth. It’s awful

https://www.disabilitymaternitycare.com/invisible-birth-trauma/#:~:text=For%20most%20women%20with%20intellectual,baby%2C%20or%20a%20neonatal%20death.

I was at a courthouse once, and saw an indigenous australian woman in a dressing gown very carefully and gingerly making her way down the steps outside the courthouse, surrounded by family who were helping her down the stairs. We asked if she was OK, because she looked awful. She looked like she should have been wrapped up in bed with blankets and hot soup, not on the steps of a courthouse.

One of her family told us that she had given birth yesterday evening, but that Child Protection services had taken her baby away with no warning, claiming that she wasnt prepared to look after him. What had happened, is that she'd literally only just given birth -- hadn't even passed the afterbirth yet, is holding her blood-coated, crying, newborn baby to her chest -- and a nurse asked what her feeding plan was. She was tired from the birth and distracted by the brand new baby in her arms and thrown off by the timing of the question, but still, she managed to answer, and said she planned to breastfeed him whenever he was hungry.

Well apparently that wasn't enough of a plan for the hospital staff, who reported her and claimed that she was unprepared to look after the child, and claimed that had no social supports, and that the baby was at risk if left with her. All because a brand new mother, 30 seconds after giving birth, didn't have a PowerPoint presentation ready to go that cited the timing cycle she would feed her kid on, and instead simply said that she would feed him when he was hungry.

Child Protection services showed up, took her kid, and she was told to show up to court the next day to contest custody if she wanted her baby back.

So a woman who had given birth less than 24 hours prior was forced to rally her family and show up to court to prove that she a) had a feeding plan for the child, and b) had enough social supports to justify reclaiming her baby.

It was one of the most appalling things I'd ever seen. I don't even know if she won her case. They didn't know at the time we saw them, and after that brief interaction on the stairs, i never saw them again. I sincerely hope she got her newborn baby back.

That was about 5 years ago. And the exact same kind of thing is still happening today.

News broke today from a South Australian whistle-blower of the appalling treatment new mothers frequently receive, including hospital staff taking the baby away from the mother "for medical tests," only for the mother to then be told, with absolutely no prior warning, that the baby was not going to be returned to her.

Here's the article, and here are some excerpts:

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My Mane 6 Redesigns all together! I was going to post them separately but ended up finishing them all before I got around to it lol

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POV you made a popular post about insects

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What the fuck is this tumblr ad I got it’s so weird haha

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every day I'm clocking in for my shift at the not making sense factory . we don't know what we're making only that it's not sense.

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I think game studios should just release their character creators online. For the times when I don’t wanna play the whole game, just the lil dress up part

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🪶🌑great-eared nightjar🌑🪶

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I don't trust anyone who hasn't acknowledged their capacity for evil.

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Red-browed Fig Parrots (Cyclopsitta diophthalma macleayana), males, family Psittaculidae, order Psittaciformes, Newell Beach, northern QLD, Australia

This is a subspecies of the Double-eyed Fig Parrot.

photographs by Doug Herrington

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As someone who works w animals “animals are not mindless automatons, they actually do have feelings and individuality and are capable of feeling acute physical and emotional pain and of forming deep attachments with other animals and people” and “animals are not human infants and have a limited capacity to communicate with humans so you have to familiarize yourself with their boundaries bc if they feel threatened or overstimulated they will fall back on their basic instincts and if you fuck around you are going to find out” are statements that can and should coexist

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It’s world autism awareness day!

#world autism awareness day

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You guys should play Neverwinter Nights and Neverwinter Nights 2 it’s Obsidian and Bioware and in Nwn2 there’s some really good party back and forth. Especially with how different a lot of trh companions are. Like they slowly warm up to each other over time too and it’s nice (or at least that’s how I felt with Khelgar and Neeshka)

If you like Star Wars try Kotor and Kotor 2 as well.

Man ... I kinda ... think BioWare ... did a lot of things ... better than Larian ... 😳😳😳

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