I’m about to block someone in the sub thread so I may not be able to see it anymore- but 👋🏼 💜 ✨

Thanks for being nice but I guess if you’re gonna be mean now, I probably won’t see it if I’m blocked. It’s just you and your conscience buddy. 🤣 🍻

@Joe *******

it’s getting a little close to time for her to travel anywhere anyway, and there is no neighboring country that you would want to do this in short of China. I love their medical! But the Thai medical system, I’ve had care there and it was great. #FormerNurse wishing you all well and I hope she has family available to support you all. Congrats btw!!

@Jim **********

you’re right 👍🏼 asking questions is the most important skill to get the information you need, but it’s not a skill that everyone has in spades. Totally agree.

@Brandon *********

it says the baby will be born in December and he would need to travel to the US in February, but with such a new baby, he doesn’t want to leave them -which makes perfect and wonderful sense. Hope this helps. I had to read it a couple times too, but hey, I know that trying to communicate in print, sometimes it’s really difficult to be clear 🤦🏻‍♀️ welcome to my life 🤣

@Bill *******

alternatively there could be groups of people inviting those who need advice, where newbies could come and crowdsource information, drawing from the experience of others to try to piece together the puzzle 🤔

@Jim **********

for sure you’re right and I really tried to agree with you clearly in my response. My only point is the group is named advice and it’s too common in this group for people to just crap on someone as soon as they post. You are 100% correct, of course- but sometimes newbies don’t know what they don’t know and so asking clarifying questions can help get them to the information they need. I didn’t see you be mean to anyone and I wasn’t calling you out for being mean to anyone. 🤷🏻‍♀️

@Bonnie ********

this is such a reach and to be honest I’m not interested in engaging with you because I have been privy to your way of thinking in the past and apparently I forgot to block you.

I think it’s pretty infantile for grown men to behave the way they do in this group. You wouldn’t walk into a room and completely insult and try to humiliate a stranger but they do it in here ad nauseum. If anything, this kind of behavior is what has infantilized the Internet.

@Jack ****

he asked about “asians”. The Thai people, monarchy and government, do not romanticize the west or whiteness. They don’t aspire to mimic or reflect it. Thailand and China understand the pragmatic importance of knowing the language, but aren’t interested in immersing in or adopting the ‘culture’. Asia is a big place- I only spoke to SEA and the human psych dynamic in general, responding to his question.

There are many places in Asia that don’t put the west on a pedestal. I hope we’re having an interesting conversation and not a debate 😊

@Joe *******

it’s a very intense research project that’s been tracked for decades and is only being published in the last decade, that non white women and black women in America have a mortality rate (during or immediately after delivery) 25% higher and 50% higher, respectively, than their white counterparts. That’s your nutshell.