Sarabet Chang Yuye
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- April 2025: listening to more music to crystallize an era
- Compilation of posts about my baby, month 1
- 25 days into being a parent
- Unfinished projects as resources, not failures
- Contraception introduces genetic selection for loving parenting
- Giving birth at the UW Montlake hospital
- March 2025: do babies in the womb hallucinate faces?
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Thceynling
A Thceyn birthing takes the inverse shape of ours. A new Thceyn forms as a thin, flexible membrane around the Thceyn world. Micrometers thick at first, it grows until it strains to hold the world in and the pressure hurts its taut, flattened organs.Compilation of posts about my baby, month 1
(affectionately, to baby) I'm going to protect and nurture you until one day you can hurt my feelings more accurately than practically anyone else can.25 days into being a parent
A personal changelog.Contraception introduces genetic selection for loving parenting
People used to have kids regardless of whether they wanted them; now there is selection for wanting children, which is correlated with being loving parents.Giving birth at the UW Montlake hospital
A pretty terrible experience. Writing about it in large part to get it out of the way and move on with my life, in small part because some events are darkly funny.I expect sapient aliens to have difficult children also
If we meet aliens are they going to be like "yes, mine too melts down at the McDonald's" or are they going to give us a huge side-eye?.Decided to have kids
I was pretty against having kids until age 26 or so, and by the time I was 29 I'd fully changed my mind. Here are the reasons.Is caring about a child's interiority contingent on being able to consistently feed them?
A quarter baked hypothesis as to why most non WEIRD (Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic) cultures seem not to have 'mind to mind' parent/child relationships.