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- Date: Friday, 22 Jan 1993 23:07:28 EST
- From: Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
- Message-ID: <93022.230728ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
- Newsgroups: talk.abortion
- Subject: Because Petey-Honey asks so nicely
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- Mr. Nykios, in his constant pursuit of proving to t.a that he is
- a prevaricating prat, apparently is trying to claim I plagiarized
- some anti-choice propaganda.
-
- The sources for the following statement
- "90% of pregnant women will suffer post partum depression, 10% to
- a degree they require hospitalization and/or medication"
- <92232.202409Admn8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
- are:
-
- Baby Blues, Janice Dineen, Toronto Star, March 23, 1991
- "At least one mother out of every 10 suffers from such
- anxiety and depression that she needs medical treatment.
- Unfortunately, many don't know to seek that treatment. And
- even when they do, it sometimes takes a while to find the
- right approach or the right medication"
-
- The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, The Boston Women's Health Book
- Collective, 1984
- "In modern technological societies, almost every mother (as
- many as 95 percent) experience periods (not just moments) of
- fear and depression. Almost a third suffer recurring
- depression. Up to two women out of each thousand experience
- depression which is deep and disabling enough to require
- hospitalization."
-
- As the gentle reader can see I didn't plagiarise the above
- source either since my faulty memory underestimated slightly.
-
- Woman's Body, An owner's manual, Bantam Books, 1979
- "Postpartum depression, or "baby blues," is rapidly being
- acknowledged as a significant aftereffect of childbirth.
- Though its intensity ranges from mere anxiety to severe
- psychosis, most women experience depression of some kind
- during the postnatal period.
- It is not confined to first time mothers: some women
- experience depression after the birth of each of their
- children."
-
- Your baby & child, from birth to age five, Penelope Leach, 1977
- reasons for postnatal depression:
- "There are physical causes such as the hormonal upheaval
- which takes place as your body returns to a non-pregnant
- state and either establishes lactation or adapts to its
- suppression. Your body will not have settled down until at
- least six weeks after the birth.
- Practical causes are numerous too. Among these are having
- to put up with post-birth discomforts such as stitches, and
- the necessity of caring for the new baby at night, when rest
- is so badly needed".
-
- I recognize that Nikios is incapable of accepting that birthing
- babies is not a walk in the fields of happiness for all women,
- even for those women who want children. However I struggle to
- imagine what motivates this sorry sot to accuse people, of
- various crimes ranging from forgery to plagiarism. Perhaps, he
- realizes that the only way to gain any attention is by making
- accusations or perhaps he receives some kind of perverse
- pleasure out of repeatedly making himself out to be such a
- fatuous ass.
-
-
-
-
- Linda
- --
- Sometimes its wise to see which way the gun is pointing
- before crying 'I see the whites of their eyes'
- Lowest of the Low, Salesmen, Cheats and Liars
-