This is a real post by the Maine State Breastfeeding Coalition... "Celebrating trans lactation, two-spirit & chestfeeding" You will live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension

In 1919, archaeologists in Iraq unearthed a 7,000-year-old statue. It depicts a mother nursing her infant—except both share the slitted, elongated faces of lizards. Dating back to the Ubaid period a culture that predates the Sumerians—this piece is part of a larger collection of terracotta figurines featuring unmistakably reptilian traits. The statues boast elongated, tapered snouts, wide slitted eyes, and dome-like skulls made of bitumen. The act of breastfeeding is intimately human, but the fact that the reptilian features are passed down to the infant is what makes the artifact very unusual. It suggests the statuettes do not depict humans wearing ceremonial masks, but rather biological beings possessing these physical traits. The purpose of these figures remains entirely unsolved. Because the Ubaid culture flourished over a millennium before the known invention of writing, there are no recovered texts, myths, or records to provide context. They do not appear to be gods; later Mesopotamian deities were almost exclusively depicted as fully human, and these statuettes lack the traditional markers of divinity. Without written context, the Ubaid lizard figures remain an anomaly. They survive as a silent puzzle that continues to baffle historians.

Baby no.2 has arrived, and we had our first family outing in the Model Y L yesterday ! My wife said it was a game changer having access to BOTH children while driving, because of the 6 seat layout (no middle seat). She was passing snacks to our toddler, and when we parked, she was able to breastfeed our new baby boy from the captains seat comfortably. There is so much space and visibility in the second row, she felt just as comfortable as sitting in the front seat. This car is a HUGE unlock for families.

Four periods a year instead of twelve. That's the pitch. Chinese biologist Hongmei Wang thinks she can stretch a woman's fertile window by slowing the menstrual cycle down to once every three months. Her logic? Fewer cycles means fewer eggs burned through. More eggs left in the tank means more years of fertility on the clock. Wang runs the State Key Laboratory of Stem Cell and Reproductive Biology in Beijing, where the work isn't just academic. China's birth rate is collapsing, and extending fertility has become a national-level obsession. Here's the wild part of her argument. Women in ancestral times had roughly 100 periods in their entire life. Constant pregnancies. Years of breastfeeding. The body barely cycled. Modern women? Over 400 periods on average. Wang wants to dial that number back down, closer to how the female body operated for most of human history. Her team has already pulled off something startling. They injected human stem cells into sterile monkeys, and one of those monkeys gave birth to a healthy baby that's still alive today. A small human trial followed with 63 women suffering premature ovarian failure. Four of them ended up conceiving healthy children after stem cell treatment. But Wang isn't pretending this is simple. Suppressing ovulation also suppresses estrogen, the hormone that protects bones, the heart, and the brain. Strip it away and you trade one problem for several others. "It's one thing to prove something possible in the lab," she says. It's another thing entirely for women to actually want it. The science is real. The ethics are messier. And the question she's forcing the world to ask isn't going away. Source: EL PAÍS interview