UK: abandoned baby is full sibling to two others previously abandoned

I don't mean this nastily, but: have you given birth yourself? The milk comes in no matter what, and women who decide not to breastfeed need to follow various instructions to reduce this happening as much as possible.

I think they've now stopped giving bromocriptines systematically but that means it's all the more important for the woman to be observed to ensure she doesn't develop mastitis. The point being that this requires some level of medical care, and I'm really not convinced that a woman being kept prisoner in some way is going to be getting the best care possible. Complications are likely, is my point.

They had medical care though, by being in contact with the nurses - that’s my point. Most women didn’t die giving birth in the past either but that’s not to say you can just give birth with no help - because when you do need help it’s important for there to be someone around who knows. Even if it’s just to identify a problem before it gets bad.

That was only one example anyway: it was literally a “for instance”. There are many others. The fundamental point is that for a woman to go through not just one but three pregnancies and births alone and never need any help at all is not something that I can imagine a woman choosing to do because she can’t be bothered going to the doctor or because she’s a sh1t parent.

Which is what the poster was claiming.

Yes you can and the death and injury rate is not insignificant. WAY above the levels of deaths in childbirth in western society generally.

So the idea that a woman would choose to do that three times while also intending to abandon the baby afterward just beggars belief.

However in the absence of any information we’ll have to agree to differ on that.

But I didn’t say she would.

I said it’s the sort of thing that MIGHT happen when someone goes through pregnancy and childbirth without any help, not even from a traditional doula sort of person. I wasn’t going to list all possible complications so I gave just one.

I don’t think I’m the one labouring the point here when your response to that one example - introduced by a “for instance” to explain why I’m unconvinced by the claim that she could have been just a fan of free birthing or something - is to explain that she might not have got mastitis either.

Well no. But then I didn’t say mastitis was an inevitability either. It was just one example. 🙄