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Date: Friday, 22 Jan 1993 23:07:28 EST
From: Linda Birmingham <ADMN8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
Newsgroups: talk.abortion
Subject:    Because Petey-Honey asks so nicely


Mr. Nykios, in his constant pursuit of proving to t.a that he is
a prevaricating prat, apparently is trying to claim I plagiarized
some anti-choice propaganda.

The sources for the following statement
"90% of pregnant women will suffer post partum depression, 10% to
a degree they require hospitalization and/or medication"
 <92232.202409Admn8647@RyeVm.Ryerson.Ca>
are:

Baby Blues, Janice Dineen, Toronto Star, March 23, 1991
     "At least one mother out of every 10 suffers from such
     anxiety and depression that she needs medical treatment.
     Unfortunately, many don't know to seek that treatment.  And
     even when they do, it sometimes takes a while to find the
     right approach or the right medication"

The New Our Bodies, Ourselves, The Boston Women's Health Book
  Collective, 1984
     "In modern technological societies, almost every mother (as
     many as 95 percent) experience periods (not just moments) of
     fear and depression.  Almost a third suffer recurring
     depression.  Up to two women out of each thousand experience
     depression which is deep and disabling enough to require
     hospitalization."

As the gentle reader can see I didn't plagiarise the above
source either since my faulty memory underestimated slightly.

Woman's Body, An owner's manual, Bantam Books, 1979
     "Postpartum depression, or "baby blues," is rapidly being
     acknowledged as a significant aftereffect of childbirth.
     Though its intensity ranges from mere anxiety to severe
     psychosis, most women experience depression of some kind
     during the postnatal period.
     It is not confined to first time mothers:  some women
     experience depression after the birth of each of their
     children."

Your baby & child, from birth to age five, Penelope Leach, 1977
reasons for postnatal depression:
     "There are physical causes such as the hormonal upheaval
     which takes place as your body returns to a non-pregnant
     state and either establishes lactation or adapts to its
     suppression.  Your body will not have settled down until at
     least six weeks after the birth.
     Practical causes are numerous too.  Among these are having
     to put up with post-birth discomforts such as stitches, and
     the necessity of caring for the new baby at night, when rest
     is so badly needed".

I recognize that Nikios is incapable of accepting that birthing
babies is not a walk in the fields of happiness for all women,
even for those women who want children.  However I struggle to
imagine what motivates this sorry sot to accuse people, of
various crimes ranging from forgery to plagiarism.  Perhaps, he
realizes that the only way to gain any attention is by making
accusations or perhaps he receives some kind of perverse
pleasure out of repeatedly making himself out to be such a
fatuous ass.




Linda
--
Sometimes its wise to see which way the gun is pointing
before crying 'I see the whites of their eyes'
  Lowest of the Low, Salesmen, Cheats and Liars
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