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Lilyallly❤️🇬🇧
I’m fatphobic to men. Why are you FAT? You have no hormones bothering you. Why are you fat? Why is your tummy big?
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Olori🍒@OloriOfOloris·
I love when ante natal is this fun🤣
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Having a baby physically shrinks part of a woman's brain. Having a second baby shrinks a totally different part. Scientists in Amsterdam just figured out why, and the explanation involves the same process that happens in teenage brains. This is from a research group in Amsterdam called the Pregnancy Brain Lab. They published their findings in Nature Communications on February 19, 2026. The team scanned the brains of 110 women. 40 were about to have their first baby, 30 were about to have their second, and 40 had never been pregnant. They scanned everyone before pregnancy and again after birth. The results were so consistent that a computer program could look at any of those brain scans and correctly tell whether the woman had been pregnant. Every single time. When a woman has her first baby, the biggest changes happen in the part of the brain that handles thinking about yourself and other people. The same region that runs daydreaming and inner monologue. That whole area visibly shrinks. And it stays shrunk for at least six years after birth, according to a 2021 follow-up study by the same team. When she has a second baby, that same area shifts a little more, but the biggest changes happen somewhere else. They happen in the part of the brain that controls what you focus on, and the part that controls how your body moves. Even the wiring between the brain and the muscles becomes more efficient. Lead researcher Milou Straathof said it looks like the brain rewiring itself for taking care of more than one kid at a time. The shrinking sounds bad. The lab compares it to what happens in teenage brains during puberty. Hormones flood the brain and trigger a kind of cleanup. Weak connections between brain cells get cleared away. The strong ones stay and get stronger. The brain ends up smaller, but the connections that remain work faster. The hormonal flood of pregnancy seems to do the same thing. Elseline Hoekzema, who runs the Pregnancy Brain Lab and has been studying this since 2017, told CNN: sometimes less is more. The pattern is layered. The first pregnancy does the deep work on identity and how a mom thinks about her baby. The second pregnancy adds a new layer focused on attention and movement. About one in five new mothers globally develops postpartum depression. The same brain circuits being remodeled here are the ones tied to mood and bonding with the baby. Mapping what a healthy maternal brain looks like is the first step toward catching when something goes wrong.
All day Astronomy@forallcurious

🚨: A second pregnancy transforms the brain, making it sharper and more efficient as it adapts to caring for two children, research finds.

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Lilyallly❤️🇬🇧@lilyally98·
Are you a killer? A racist? A misogynist? A sexist? A criminal? A rapist? A tribalist? A thief? A pedophile? Please be patient, A Nigerian man will be available to defend you shortly. Thank you for your patience. Xx Lily
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Anish Moonka
Anish Moonka@anishmoonka·
The research behind this is wild. Your sperm carries a set of instructions that tell your genes when to turn on and off. A Duke University study found that THC rewrites those instructions. The more weed in your system, the bigger the changes. It goes straight for the genes your future embryo needs in its first week of life. I had to read the "day 3 crash" part twice. For the first three days after fertilization, an embryo runs entirely on the mother's DNA. Day 3, the father's genes switch on. If those genes carry cannabis damage, the embryo just stops growing. Fertility doctors see this happen in their labs: embryos that fertilized fine and looked healthy on day 2 go completely still by day 5. Boston University tracked 1,535 couples trying to have a baby. Men who smoked weed once a week or more doubled their partner's miscarriage risk. That number held up even when the woman herself never touched cannabis. And the miscarriages clustered in the first 8 weeks, right when the father's damaged DNA would be doing the most harm. Duke also found that the specific genes THC alters in sperm overlap with genes linked to autism. One of those genes, called DLGAP2, helps brain cells communicate with each other. It was changed in cannabis users' sperm. When researchers bred THC-exposed male rats and checked their offspring, the same altered gene pattern showed up in the pups' brains. The damage crossed a generation. Weed has gotten way stronger over the last 30 years. THC content was about 4% in the 1990s but nearly quadrupled to 15% by 2018, and modern dispensary strains regularly sit at 20-30%. Concentrates go up to 95%. Quitting for about 11 weeks (one full cycle of sperm production) reverses some of the DNA changes. Not all of them. Duke's lead researcher says men should stop at least 6 months before trying for a baby. Half of your kid's genetic blueprint comes from you, and right now, THC is editing that blueprint before conception even happens.
Andrew D. Huberman, Ph.D.@hubermanlab

Cannabis is detrimental to sperm: even if they can fertilize, there can be DNA damage. Many miscarriages and (in the case of IVF) “day 3 crashes” which is when paternal DNA normally kicks in, are cannabis related. Dr Natalie Crawford on the Huberman Lab podcast out now.

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How old is this pregnancy again?
blessing Ailen@ib_Ailen

UPDATE ON THE DNA ISSUE So after two days of crying, family meetings,and deliberations She has agreed to do the DNA test. BUT. She added her own condition. She said if the DNA proves the baby is his the wedding is cancelled. Yes. Cancelled. Her exact words? “If you need scientific evidence to trust me before marriage, then you don’t trust me enough to be my husband.” Now tell me why everywhere has gone quiet. Introduction done. Wedding date fixed. Vendors fully booked. Deposits paid. People have bought fabric. Tailors have started sewing. Hall almost paid in full. Now everybody is staring at each other. His family that was whispering “a man must be sure” are suddenly saying, “Let’s not overreact.” Her family? They said if the result comes out positive and he still expects marriage, they will personally escort her out of it. Now the man is confused. Because what he thought would give him “peace of mind” might cost him his wife. And here’s the real gag If the DNA shows the baby is his and she walks away, some people will say she’s overreacting. If she stays, people will say she has no self-respect. If she refused the test entirely, they’d say she’s hiding something. So which one is it? Is asking for DNA before marriage wisdom? Or is agreeing to marry someone who doesn’t trust you foolishness? Because now the wedding is on pause Let’s really talk. What would YOU do if you were her? Are her reasons valid??

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Sultan Bazz (Sultan Bazz Consult)@bazeetajedenewb·
My baby boy is 41 days today Alhamdulilahi 🙏 I would also like to appreciate our Doctor and his hospital Abicare Hospital in Awolowo, Tanke Ilorin for their care and professionalism. Always ready to listen and guide us 🙏
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