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How do you keep up with posts?
First, I wanted to say that I really appreciate how this site has a built-in function to let you know how many new posts are in a thread (since your last visit).
I wanted to know how everyone keeps tabs on posts they want to stay up to date on? For when new comments are added.
On Reddit, I used to upvote posts I wanted to keep tabs on. Then I would look at my upvote history to find them again. I don’t think that feature’s here?
Any ideas on how to follow up on posts? I see you can get notifications for posts that you start. But I also wanted to keep up with other posts.
Pete Buttigieg and his husband adopted their children, they did not use a surrogate.
Its still super weird that they LARPed in the hospital bed after the mother gave birth
That's because both of their children were in the NICU, they were not there for the birth. They were only chosen by the birth mother after she had given birth.
I thought it was weird, but the reason they do that is for the skin to skin contact.
You need a camera for that? Does the skin to skin contact not work unless the photos are uploaded to social media?
Well I mean doesn't everyone show pictures of the baby pretty immediately in the past 15 years?? Smartphones and social media has facilitated this.
You're intentionally conflating two situations that are very different.
Situation A: A new mother posts a photo on social media of her first skin-to-skin contact with her infant, lying exhausted in the bed in which she just gave birth.
Situation B: A rich politician orders a baby from a biological mother, then months later shows up to the hospital and has his photo taken with his nonprocreative male partner lying in a hospital bed for no reason with their newly-acquired baby. Due to bed shortages and hospital regulations the exhausted mother who just gave birth may have been asked to stand next to the bed out of frame while holding a pile of sweaty sheets so she doesn't fuck up the photo.
Why are they in the fucking bed? Can you or I just wander down to our local hospital and climb into a bed for no fucking reason and take pictures? Did these two mess up a perfectly clean bed and require a hospital worker to change and resanitize the bed so they could have a photo op? Or did they kick the sweaty, exhausted (but now worthless, fuck off cunt you're ruining the photo) mother out of her own bed for the photo?
Which happened?
Nice fiction you're writing.
Buttigieg and his husband didn't "order a baby" and show up months later. This was not surrogacy and neither Buttigieg or his husband are the biological father of either baby. A woman gave birth, decided to place her children for adoption, and picked Buttigieg and his husband after the babies were born. They were not at the birth and did not shove the exhausted birth mother out of her own bed. Adoptive parents are usually given a room at the hospital to meet the infants they're adopting, they didnt just wander into the hospital for a photo op. They probably took photos on the bed because it is wide enough for them to sit side by side unlike most chairs in hospital rooms.
Do you think adoptive parents shouldn't take pictures in the hospital with the babies they're adopting? Or just the gay couples?
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