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Inside the Booming Business of Cutting Babies’ Tongues
(www.nytimes.com)
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First the dick, now the tongue. Parents are fucking awful.
We had to get my son's tongue done. My wife's father literally can't stick his tongue out, and it looked like it skipped a generation because my son's tongue barely moved.
We are awful though. At least according to my kids when they refuse to eat dinner, even though they ate the same goddamn meal 10 days ago and loved it.
I've committed the same atrocity. To hear them talk, my kids may never recover.
Literally the end of the world.
Women receive an immense amount of pressure to nurse their newborns to the point where they are made to feel like they are failing as a mother if they don't or can't. Lactation consultants are the worst at this, many refusing to admit that sometimes it just won't happen and the mother will need to look into alternatives.
Don't discount the business around lactation and nursing. Some are most definitely taking advantage of the societal pressure to the mom's for the money. Any good dentist will be honest with the mother when a procedure is truly needed or not, but it's not always easy to tell if you're listening to a good one or not
Parents definitely have a responsibility, but don't place all the blame on them in this situation.
Well said. To add to this, mother's are still going through a hurricane of hormones and exhaustion when both they and the baby are just starting to learn how to latch. I remember my wife crying saying she was a bad mother, and the baby hates her, and that she is so stupid to think she could do this. It was heartbreaking.
Same here. My wife's milk never came in. She had 3 different lactation nurses tell her "don't worry, it'll happen, just keep trying". Not once did anyone talk to her about the fact that it doesn't happen for some women. Not once did they provide support for the increasing likelihood that it wouldn't happen. It was just "keep trying, the milk will come".
I don't discount the benefits of breastfeeding, but I think our medical community needs to take a step back a little and think about this article and the other side effects of all that pressure they're putting on mothers.
In both cases, these are procedures that doctors routinely recommend to parents, as the best thing for the child. Guess what else doctors routinely recommend? Vaccination against measles.
Parenting is fucking hard.
A shitty for-profit medical establishment makes it much harder. (Especially the jackass who starting the vaccine scare to push his own vaccines. A thousand death sentences wouldn't be enough justice for that guy.)
Blaming parents for getting it wrong doesn't help.
Dick cutting bad. Tongue cutting often helpful.