I'm a mum and watching this killed me.
That tiny baby doesn't know about rights, or slogans, or DEI, or having two dads.
He just knows a smell that isn't there.
A voice that isn't there.
A body that fed him for 9 months and then vanished.
So he roots.
He cries.
He's desperate.
He turns his face into whoever is holding him, looking for that milk and for the only solace he ever had.
And I know that cry, because I answered it once with milk and nourishment and love. All mums know it.
But nobody answers him.
Instead, he's filmed and laughed at.
We wouldn't take a puppy or a kitten off its mum at a just a few days old because we know what that does, and yet it's done to him and this is supposed to be love?
Why is human trafficking shuddered at yet this is clapped at? You don't have to be fine with it just because the parents are gay.
He's just looking for his mother and all babies deserve one.
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Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.
Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.
They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.
At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.
In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.
A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.
Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.
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Single Chinese man commissions triplet babies. Doesn't show up when they're born. Eventually sends two sketchy guys in a black SUV to collect them. Mother refuses.
She doesn't hear from him for a year and a half.
One triplet dies from RSV complications. She mourns like the grieving mother she is.
She and her husband are now fighting for custody. But he filed a challenge and now the babies are in foster care.
Welcome to the global baby trade. #Surrogacy.
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This man murdered Chloe Devey Waterhouse by stabbing her. Headline glorifies him as a maths graduate while reducing her to the ‘sweetheart’ of a violent man who didn’t love her. Chloe held a first-class maths degree and a Master’s in statistics.
Another bad week for women in Britain is there any other now? a mother & her daughters murdered according to the BBC 'was a nice man who loved his family'. Rape Gang survivors asking the public for support because their torturers & rapists have been released early from jail. An elderly conservative woman politician murdered in her own home a leading political broadcaster describes her as 'old maid & 'virgin' & a #bekind Transwoman hopes she was handcuffed to her bed & tortured. All of this is male violence, the women are diverse the men are same they hate women.
Six sexual assaults in six weeks. Four within 12 days. Four reported in the media as rape. One city. And not a word from the Scottish Government.
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@sshs_maths@StStephensHS@sshsparents These are brilliant! Thank you to all the staff for giving up your time to take the team to Barca. Hope you’ve all managed to have a relaxing weekend. 😴
Barnaby Philip John Webber
11/01/2004-13/06/2023 💔
If you can, share these images of the beautiful soul stolen from us by the worst of humanity.
Let his face today burn bright.
Barney, I promise you there will be accountability 💛💚
For You. For Grace. For Ian.
Living in a luxury house in London and sipping champagne on the book festival circuit is about as far away from serving a prison sentence as I can imagine. It’s worth remembering that thanks to Nicola Sturgeon vulnerable women in Scottish prisons are banged up with violent men.
A final piece of advice from Holly Butcher - written the day before she passed away from cancer at just 27:
“It’s a strange thing knowing you’re going to die young.
At 26, I thought I had time…
To fall in love.
Start a family.
Grow old.
But cancer doesn’t care about plans.
Now, I understand how fragile life really is. Every single day is a gift, not a guarantee.
I’m not writing this to scare you. I’m writing to remind you: really live.
Stop stressing over little things. Be kind to your body- move it, nourish it, stop criticizing it. One day you’ll wish you had appreciated it.
Go outside.
Look at the sky.
Feel the sun.
Just be.
Spend less time chasing “stuff” - more time making memories. Don’t skip moments with people you love.
Laugh more.
Write a note.
Tell someone you love them.
Complain less.
Give more.
Helping others brings more joy than anything you can buy.
Be present.
Put your phone down.
Show up - really show up.
You don’t need to have it all figured out. You don’t need a perfect body, or a perfect life.
Just follow what makes your heart light up. Say no to what drains you. Make changes when you need to.
And please - donate blood. I wouldn’t have had that extra year without it. And that year gave me memories I’ll hold close… forever.
Thank you for reading this.
Live your life well.
And maybe… we’ll meet again someday.”
Holly 🩷
Repost & share Holly’s important advice. ❤️