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Sep 9, 2022·edited Sep 9, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

We are the same age, and we also have 4 kids. You and Daniel are 2 of the most important voices of reason, (un)common sense, and frankly...wisdom based in truth and light...in our increasingly dystopian woke world today....where individual thought and reason have seemingly vanished. Doctors are a product of the education and training they get, and are fed. I have spent 25 years of my career in the medical "education" industry. It has long been and is now more than ever, totally controlled by big pharma and driven by corporate profiteers (at best) and dominated by global elites who are engineering the end of humanity as we knew it. Billions of dollars are invested in deliberate censorship and suppression of anything that threatens the global order of fascist technocracy and control over every thought, word, idea or independence from the matrix that they fear. Please keep being the authentic, courageous and intelligent human beings that you are...you are good people. Thank you!

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Sep 9, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

I love this Jen! I take everything now with a grain of salt. I trust my instinct now more than I ever used to. I am also paying the price from the toll gymnastics took on my body. Even more now that I do taekwondo. I am now looking at things differently and try to prioritize my health and life better. It's a hard habit to get out of when you have been indoctrinated into the "just obey" and "don't ask questions" mentality of elite level gymnastics.

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Hi Jen I read your article on my boyfriends phone and I applaud you. There is no replacing common sense and doing what you feel best for your children. After all no child is the same as another. I love the fact that you and your family don't succumb to the control pressure imposed on us by "science" Well done.

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Sep 9, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

Yes yes yes! I even took an antidepressant for 6 months while I was breastfeeding. I got off of it as soon as I was able, but I think if I hadn’t taken it, I’d have stepped in front of a bus. I got a lot of grief for that from other moms, but my daughter and I both survived.

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Sep 9, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

Common Sense is very uncommon today. Thank you for reminding us how to be normal.

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Sep 10, 2022·edited Sep 10, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

I agree with everything you said Jennifer. You have always been an advocate for children. Whether it may be during covid or before it, you have always advocated for children and their rights. I respect you for that. But, I believe that elite gymnastics has NOT changed!! Lowlife dirty scoundrels like the Karolyis, the Strausses, Don Peters, Mary Wright, Mary Lee Tracy, Steve Nunno,Steve Rybacki, etc,etc.have still not been prosecuted for their crimes. It is better to keep children out of this dirty organization called USAG which is equivalent to a sewage tank to prevent them from going through the horrors that 500+ gymnasts had gone through. Or even more than that.

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Dang it. I love reading stuff from Sey Everything. My wife's not a subscriber (and I hate sharing my phone with her--yes, I'm flawed) but she's got to read this from Jennifer. (Read: I owe Sey Everything a cup of coffee...maybe even a beer. A good beer otherwise coffee could be more expensive where I live.)

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Yay Jen …Love you for speaking your truth!

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Sep 10, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

Thankfully, my wife drank coffee, Diet Coke (with mixers), wine and beer. In fact, that's how we met, and, how I got her pregnant...

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Sep 9, 2022·edited Sep 9, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

Keeping it real lady! You always were a force of inspiration as a mother in the office. Thanks for this read Jen :-) 43 and pregnant with my second through IVF, about to squeeze him out around Halloween. It's amazing what going through a very difficult first pregnancy will do to your outlook for the second. Keeping them wrapped in cottonwool helps no one survive in the long term. I'm thankful for the wits I have and to the other streetwise women out there who use them and endorse them as well. Keep it coming.

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Sep 9, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

After four kids, I think you’ve earned your Pro card.

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Sounds like my life - experts are not always smarter but they think they are

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I'd preemptively warn any expectant mother not to read any of the books. From labor to baby, you learn pretty fast them experts don't know nothin'.

I had three months' maternity leave and breastfed exclusively; a week after returning to work I realized pumping was a losing game. Kid had formula when I wasn't home and nursed when I was home until self-weaning at two.

When the baby was ten months old I was hospitalized for a week. Other than the kid being really pissed off at me for 24 hours after I got back home, nursing resumed just fine.

Most of the advice industry around childbearing and child raising tries to get between you and your instincts. I was really bad at the mechanics of things--afraid I'd give the baby whiplash if I tried to burp the kid--but in everything else--and having been pretty badly parented myself--my instincts were right on target. Baby in the parental bed, 'n all.

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Sep 9, 2022Liked by Jennifer Sey

I'm a doctor myself and have done almost all of those things too.

Our 4 kids turned our fine: Alive, well, sleeping thru the night and full of common sense. ( 26 21 18 16y)

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Wow, so much common sense!

I'm a mom of 5. I never stress the small stuff. I made mistakes, but they are all alive and kicking, not in prison, and only one is in therapy. (ha!) I eat eggs over easy. I craved fish when I was pregnant with one of my kids, and beer when I was pregnant with another. I remember my first OB/GYN told me absolutely no alcohol, but 200 mg of caffeine was ok (2 cups of coffee/soda) I listed (first born!) my second OB said no caffeine at all but 1 glass of wine or beer was okay. What? Don't these people talk to each other? I didn't listen to him. By the time I was pregnant with #3, I just went with the flow.

A friend of mine who is a retired emergency pediatric doctor told me that doctors just guess -- they have to ask the right questions, listen, assess. They just have more information and experience to draw on to make conclusions, but most of the time it's hit or miss because they don't know until they try something if it works.

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Amazing that all of us managed to get here from prior generations - without them knowing all this "advice." LOL. Common sense rules.

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