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because they killed off or disempowered the midwives and destroyed or scoffed at their accumulated knowledge and then didn't bother to study it themselves. https://twitter.com/BeeCycling/status/1388027338580021251
Same reason that pregnancy is a mystery, and menstruation, and childbirth, and menarche, and
A quote from my unpublished poem "Fuck Braxton Hicks":
Fuck Braxton-Hicks
sticking his name on something
everyone* knew about before him.
Fuck Braxton-Hicks
sticking his name on something
everyone* knew about before him.
*Most of the women who had carried pregnancies throughout history.
His own mother had more experience*
with contractions than he ever did.
with contractions than he ever did.
*Probably. Every pregnancy is different. And science hasn't bothered to study them enough to tell us how or why.
(There's more to this footnoted poem, if anyone in a position to do so would like to publish it lmk)
it became a bifurcating paths sort of a thread so linking some stuff back in enjoy the labyrinth 
https://twitter.com/m_older/status/1388107517520195587?s=20
https://twitter.com/m_older/status/1388107517520195587?s=20
