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[Serena @indiangoodness]

Just when I think he couldn’t get any sweeter, he proves me wrong 🥹

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

In 1935, two American doctors examined seven women's ovaries and saw small lumps. They called them cysts and named the disease after them. They were wrong. It took 91 years to fix.

What we called PCOS is now Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS), announced today in The Lancet by an international panel of doctors and patients. The renaming followed more than a decade of consensus work and 22,000 patient and clinician survey responses.

The lumps Stein and Leventhal saw were never cysts. Modern imaging shows they were follicles, the tiny sacs inside the ovary that grow and release an egg each month, frozen partway through by a hormonal imbalance. PMOS is a multi-system disorder centered in the endocrine system, the body's network of glands that produces hormones like insulin (controls blood sugar), cortisol (the stress hormone), and thyroid hormones (set the body's metabolism). The ovary trouble flows downstream from there.

The naming choice is not academic. When doctors hear "ovary" in a diagnosis, they look at the ovary. "Metabolic" and "endocrine" send them to the whole body.

PMOS affects roughly 1 in 8 women worldwide, more than 170 million people. The WHO estimates 70% have never been diagnosed. Among those who do, 1 in 3 wait more than 2 years, and nearly half see 3 or more doctors first. The CDC reports more than half of women with PMOS develop type 2 diabetes by age 40, a risk 5 to 10 times higher than women without the condition. Around 37% have clinically significant depression, compared with 14% in women without it. Anxiety runs at 42% versus 8.5%.

A label born from a 1935 look at seven ovaries is finally going away. The new diagnostic guidelines roll out fully in 2028. By then, a woman walking into a clinic with these symptoms should hear questions about her blood sugar and her mood alongside her cycle. Those are the parts of the disease the old name hid for 91 years.

[Serena @indiangoodness]

@Xaviregas Wait deh you a lecturer now?

[Claire Dunphy @cee_suella]

Your parents as they get older

[Serena @indiangoodness]

Every milestone you have that they’re not around for… all your big, happy moments are now tainted to be bittersweet.

[Sophia ❣️ @KeruboSk]

What’s the grief milestone nobody prepares you for? Not the funeral. Not the first year. The weird specific one nobody talks about.

[Serena @indiangoodness]

The way I am GIGGLING. We hanging out on the couch with Biebs

[arianators wildin @arianatorswildt]

now why are we watching memes with justin bieber 😭 #bieberchella

[Serena @indiangoodness]

Not me as a 90s baby giggling and enjoying this karaoke session Justin Bieber is putting on

[Serena @indiangoodness]

Whilst this is so true and I can’t bring to words how my life is infinitely better as a mom…it still does not mean kids are for everyone and that everyone will feel that way.

[user @user84829272]

There’s a big disconnect between parents and non parents about what it’s actually like to have a child because the hardships are describable but the joy is not.

[Lij @lijitimate]

One of the saddest things is when someone passes away when you’re abroad, you come home & for the first time it really hits that the person really doesn’t and will never exist here anymore.

[Serena @indiangoodness]

@RjNotRajay When I tell you this is one of the BIGGEST tips for the freshly postpartum period. No sah me did stressssss out 😭

[Serena @indiangoodness]

Paramore’s All I Wanted on Bridgerton took me by surprise. What a BANGER.

[Serena @indiangoodness]

For what incentive? People left for a reason, same reason people in Ja aren’t having kids. What is the govt doing that will incentivize/support people having children?

[Serena @indiangoodness]

Carnival Mondayyyy ready fi see the girliessss. Refreshing my IG like 👀

[Serena @indiangoodness]

My husband and I don’t do books and never have. We read to our son everyday and at 23 months and he is an absolute bookworm. He recites books from memory, communicates very well and vocabulary and pronunciation is insane for his age. Other factors contribute but can’t deny it.

[Samantha Watkins @_samantha_joy]

I'm open to being convinced I'm wrong, but I feel dubious about the value of 'baby books' and don't plan to buy/use them.

And I'm someone who is so bullish on the value of reading/literature, I'll be using Montessori to start phonics at ~2.5yo.

But 'baby books' seem like they fit in the category of "looks educational to adults, but not all that valuable from a child's perspective". At least for a child under ~12-18 months.

If the goal is building vocabulary, it's far more effective (and easy) to let your baby engage with real objects in the world and provide the names that way.

If the goal is the child regularly hearing rich language, it's far easier and more effective to just talk to your baby and narrate everything you're doing. You can also just read *real* books and poetry and get the added benefit of providing varied prosody.

I see a lot of parents stressing out, like "my baby won't sit still while I read to him/her" or "my baby just wants to rip/turn the pages or throw the book" and idk, my response is just ... what are we even doing here? for whom?

again, I'm open to arguments, but I highly doubt handling board books at 8 months old really makes that much of a difference in whether a child eventually loves reading, especially if you're going to invest heavily in them loving to read once they're a toddler.

[Juniper is Ready to Art Fight @adesertdryad]

The hard part of homemaking is not that any individual task is that strenuous. It’s that you have to be self-disciplined enough every single day to create and maintain the systems that stave off chaos.

[Serena @indiangoodness]

Wowowowow Djoko. Absolutely incredible

[Pratyasha Rath @pratyasharath]

Every single trip back home,comes with seeing your parents a bit weaker, a bit more helpless, a bit less confident around what used to be everyday things

The house is in a bit more disarray. Your childhood is a bit more distant

Every trip back is like a battleground of adulting

[Serena @indiangoodness]

Kudos to you. It’s so easy to come at them and go straight for discipline without realizing they need to be taught how to communicate and deal with emotions just like us. I try to have that mindset but bwoy some days really test me

[Virtuous Woman @originallygaza]

I’m breaking generational curses. Yesterday I picked my daughter up from school & when we were in the car mamas had an attitude. A stink one too like she was highly annoyed. My regular reaction wud have been to cuss n act out like an asshole cause I CANNOT & DO NOT

[Serena @indiangoodness]

Having had my son and being on mat leave for almost 10 months… if it’s not a job it’s gotta be something else. Spending time with him is 100% worth it but I have to also do something for me.

[⚡︎ @_sorrengailll]

GIRL TO GIRL… be honest….
If you could stay home, raise babies, and run a cozy homemaker life… would you?

[naiive @naiivememe]

When you realize your 9-5 job is really 8-7 because you can't teleport to work

[Serena @indiangoodness]

10 hours with a toddler and it feels like time goes still 😩

[Lij @lijitimate]

Being 13 hours on a plane will make you want to cry.