Author: unitedfamilies

A life worth living: one family embraces four children with Down syndrome

What I always say is welcome to the most special club of people you didn’t know you needed and will never feel that you deserve. It seems that families with a child with T21 are stronger in some ways than the average family due, in part, to the need to rely on one another and live through some of the difficulties associated with the T21 diagnosis. You will be unconditionally loved from the moment your child is born until the moment you die: and there is nothing in life more fulfilling than being loved and caring for someone who loves you back so selflessly. You are one of the lucky few with a child who will never let you down and never leave your side.

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Elon Musk ignites birth control conversation on X

While many still downplay the risk of depression with hormonal birth control use, the fact remains that we’ve had astonishingly good evidence of the brain-altering effects of hormonal birth control for many years now. But St. Clair’s viral tweet seemed to cause something of a revelation for Musk, who, on February 16, made his own tweet about the dangers of hormonal contraceptives: “Hormonal birth control makes you fat, doubles risk of depression & triples risk of suicide. This is the clear scientific consensus, but very few people seem to know it.”

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