One thing that doesn't get talked about enough:
After childbirth, a woman's hormone levels can drop at an astonishing rate. The shift is so dramatic that some experts compare it to a man experiencing decades of aging in an incredibly short period of time.
At the very same time, the brain is highly neuroplastic—meaning experiences, emotions, support, stress, kindness, and neglect can leave a deeper imprint than usual.
Women don't forget how they were treated during postpartum.
They remember who showed up.
Who disappeared.
Who offered help.
Who added to the burden.
The weeks and months after birth aren't just physical recovery. They're a period when the body, brain, and nervous system are adapting all at once.
Postpartum shouldn't be another trauma women have to heal from. Yet for far too many, the recovery isn't just from childbirth—it's from the way they were treated during one of the most vulnerable periods of their lives.
BREAKING: LOL! Trump gets publicly humiliated at his big White House helipad event after the major outlets refused to give him a press pool — resulting in a lack of audio for his ranting remarks.
This one really backfired bigly on him...
"Yeah there— Okay, so there is no microphone because... There's no microphone because the pool cameras aren't there," said a Newsmax host reporting on the incident. "So maybe, Tim, this is one example of it backfiring just a little bit."
The video showed Trump cutting a ribbon to celebrate his hideous new White House helipad, but viewers couldn't hear what he was saying because of the press pool's absence. Since the reporters didn't show up, there were no high-quality professional microphones present.
On Friday, Trump barred CNN, Politico, and MS NOW from the White House on the grounds that they're supposedly "fake news," which just means that they accurately report on his disastrous administration.
In retaliation, CBS News, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, and NBC News banded together to announce that they would be suspending press pool coverage of Trump.
"The public has a vital interest in receiving accurate, independent information about its government. No administration should reject a news organization because it objects to its reporting," they said in a joint statement.
The press pool is a dedicated, rotating group of journalists, complete with cameras and audio equipment, that travels with the President to provide outlets with a steady stream of updates on his latest remarks and actions. They also provide video footage when he delivers a speech or attends a noteworthy event. It's clearly something that the attention-obsessed Trump took for granted. He failed to game this attack on the free press out and now he's paying the price.
And you just know that this is exactly the kind of thing that gets under his skin. He's fixated on all of these "renovations" and building projects, and he was presumably looking forward to this helipad unveiling. What should have been a moment of gloating and self-congratulation turned into a display of muted helplessness.
Please ❤️ and share to thank the news outlets for taking a stand!
The entire world fucking hates you, Donald Trump. You keep saying the world respects America now and “we’re no longer the laughingstock.”
You ARE the fucking laughingstock, you obese, clown makeup wearing, diaper shitting, child-raping pedophile.
Hello again.
Loved the idea of creating a pleasant jugful of bright yellow Dandelions
François Gillet
Apparently a French photographer working in Sweden.
Specialising in Still Life and Children. I thought it was a painting @helen_warlow
Dear "transwomen" could you please refrain from talking about; menstruation, pregnancy, womens infertility issues, endometriosis, childbirth, PND and the menopause. These are all exclusively FEMALE conditions/experiences!
Yours sincerely
WOMEN ♀️
Las palabras de Isabella Rossellini 🇮🇹 son una bocanada de aire fresco en una sociedad que a menudo vive obsesionada con detener el reloj. Su reflexión desarma los mitos de la eterna juventud y plantea una mirada profundamente liberadora sobre el paso del tiempo:
"Soy mayor y tengo el aspecto de una mujer de mi edad. Algunas mañanas, al mirarme en el espejo, me pregunto: ‘¿Y si me opero?’. Pero siempre lo descarto, porque la cirugía es como cuando vendaban los pies a las mujeres en China, una nueva manifestación de la misoginia. Podría parecer de 56, pero cuando tuviera 76, aparentaría 66... Es ganar una batalla para perder la guerra. Además, con el tiempo, la belleza reside sobre todo en la elegancia y la inteligencia. Pienso, por ejemplo, en María Callas, Frida Kahlo, Anna Magnani... A los 20, todos somos atractivos con unos vaqueros y una camiseta, pero luego la belleza se convierte en una cuestión de estilo, personalidad y carisma. No hay que ocultar los defectos, sino transformarlos en lo que nos hace únicos. Ya no busco ser sexy, sino expresar lo mejor de mí misma. Cuando eres joven, estás bajo mucha presión: el trabajo, el dinero, los hijos... Pero a medida que envejeces, te sientes más libre, más segura, y haces lo que realmente deseas. ¡Nadie habla de lo maravilloso que es envejecer!"
I hope you've all had a good weekend? My day has been okay, spent the afternoon at the railway. Still working on my pics fom last week. Here's one of Whitby near the swing bridge, the water was finally still enough to get a bit of a reflection! Sleep well all !
This is not a photograph.
Every leaf and every reflection was put there by hand, in oil, by the Danish painter Peder Mørk Mønsted in 1894.
It is called Wooded path by a river, and it captures the hardest thing there is to paint: a forest in full sunlight. Light through trees never falls evenly. It scatters into countless flecks of brightness and shadow, a glow on one leaf, darkness on the next, a glint on the water that would vanish the moment a cloud passed. Get those even slightly wrong, and the whole thing collapses into a green blur.
Mønsted got every one of them right, and in doing so he captured something anyone who has stood alone in a wood will recognize immediately: that hush that falls over you, the sense of being completely at peace, and the feeling that the whole world has paused to breathe…