 this pregnancy—and it's just been thing after thing after thing that's just challenged us."
Finally, almost into her third trimester and enjoying the sun and the warmth, Welteroth was in a "state of bliss." Her husband, music artist and producer Johnathan Singletary, snapped a series of photos of her and the baby bump for the memories and the 'gram. That night, she posted to Instagram and disconnected, choosing to be present on what was a practically perfect day. Then came the bad day.
"I've had a lot of those, and when I say it was a bad day—physically and emotionally," she says. "Spiritually, I just felt drained and in pain."
Welteroth has a pregnancy-related condition called symphysis pubis dysfunction (SPD), which affects about one-third of pregnant people. The often debilitating condition is caused when the hormone that's meant to loosen pubic ligaments to prepare for childbirth overreacts, opening up the pelvis prematurely. The result is instability in the hips that makes it difficult to walk and move. "Sometimes, it's excruciating to even roll over in bed. You need help going to the bathroom. You need help putting on your socks and your underwear and your shoes and your pants. You need help," says Welteroth.
The next day, after a simple breathwork class at the hotel turned into a movement-heavy class and she could not move or get back up, her husband had to pick her up off the floor. "I just felt this wave of emotional defeat come over me," she says. She went back to her room, cried under the sheets, and logged back into Instagram.
"That was the first time that I saw the outpouring of support and just like the sweet comments from people on the previous day's post, which was happy and sunshiny and the beach and the bump," says Welteroth. "I just felt, in that moment, so dissociated. I felt like there is this person, this avatar, representing my pregnancy online that I'm responsible for that's being showered with superficial praise about a superficial post that I put up yesterday when I was feeling in a very different headspace."
As a journalist, Welteroth felt a responsibility to contribute an honest, authentic portrayal of what pregnancy looks like—a recognition that it ain't always pretty or nice: "As somebody who really thrives in communion and building community with women around truth-telling, if I can't be fully vulnerable, transparent, and just truthful and honest on this platform, it starts to feel toxic."
In her conviction, she decided to build the pregnancy community she hadn't yet found—one that gets real about the challenges of pregnancy and walks through solutions, resources, and practical insights from experts of color. Welteroth's new IG Live series, MaterniTea: Expecting…the Unexpected, premiered on Martin Luther King Jr. Day and will recur Sunday nights at 5 p.m. PST/8 p.m. EST.
The first live in the series featured Loom CEO and author of Nurture: A Modern Guide to Pregnancy, Birth, Early Motherhood—and Trusting Yourself and Your Body Erica Chidi on why it's OK to be ambivalent during pregnancy and resources for birthing people of color on finding a supportive and anti-racist birthing experience.
Also inspired by her search to find and connect with pregnant people with SPD that led her to a single Reddit thread and not much else, each live will answer the questions Welteroth, and so many other first-time pregnant people, have been searching for.
"Inadvertently, we created the forum that I needed so desperately and then realized so many other women needed too," says Welteroth. "Overnight, I felt so much better. I felt lighter. I felt less alone."Complete mitochondrial genome of Macrognathus aculeatus (Synbranchiformes: Mastacembelidae)

Abstract In this study, we cloned and sequenced the complete mitochondrial genome (mitogenome) of Macrognathus aculeatus. The genome is a circular molecule of 16,537 bp in length and consists of 13 protein-coding genes, 22 tRNA genes, 2 ribosomal RNA genes and 2 main non-coding regions (the control region and the origin of the light strand replication). The overall base composition of M. aculeatus is 30.03% for A, 26.46% for T, 28.72% for C and 14.79% for G, with a slight A + T bias of 56.49%. It has the typical vertebrate mitochondrial gene arrangement.Why the performing arts are important at Heathfield?
Regular exposure to the Performing Arts process raises self-esteem and self-confidence. Central to this is the notion that young people with strong feelings of self-worth are more likely to achieve their full potential. The high aspirations and expectations demanded by the exacting nature of performance opens the door to students achieving very high standards across a range of subject areas. Concurrently, the process of performance of performing arts teaching is very much based on problem solving within a group where ideas are shared, shifted and collated to create a solution. This method of group work is driven by intent and purpose and can be applied to a whole range of learning environments. The performance model also requires students to respect each other’s work, opinions and ideas and in this way contributes to the overall ethos of the school where mutual respect and support is key.
Social, Wellbeing : The boy, the mole, the fox and the horse Charlie Mackesy Students - To feel mentally prepared to embrace the world of drama, excited and wanting to know more.
Knowledge: To understand the basics of mental health/wellbeing, what mental health/ wellbeing is and how to help themselves and look out for others through drama activities.
Why: Students have been off school due to pandemic for a long time and naturally will feel anxious about coming back and some student’s mental health may even be effective, so it is important to educate students on wellbeing. Even for those that may have taken part in drama before it is important for them to understand the expectations of drama within a lesson environment.
It is made clear to them that the drama studio is a safe place to help reassure those that are feeling anxious about working with new people. With a new grouping of students, it is important that they are reminded of the importance of drama and what is expected in a drama classroom. Re-emphasise how safe the drama studio is and that working collaboratively with everyone and anyone is vital to be successful in drama and in their future careers ( transferable skills).
Papers on any aspect of the life and work of Leone Ebreo (Yehudah Abravanel), author of The Dialogues of Love. Penned by a Spanish Sephardic exile and published in Rome in 1535, The Dialogues is one of the most eclectic and influential vernacular philosophical works of sixteenth century.
The 109th Annual PAMLA Conference will be held at Scripps College in Claremont, California, on November 5 and 6, 2011.
A paper title, an approximately 500-word proposal, and an approximately 40-word abstract should be submitted online at: by March 25, 2011.When we installed a new roof this past month, we put the weathershield over the gutter hangers. Should we have pulled the hangars off and put the weathershield underneath? I am worried about ice creeping up under the hangars.
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czech ministry says oil supply problem unrelated to dispute with russiaThanks to improvements to its Android interface, Google Lens is now more prominent, visible and easier to use in tandem with Google Photos. Rolling out on version 5.33 of the application, Google Lens now plays a more proactive role in Google Photos by determining what photos would benefit from the Lens analysis tool.
It feels like only yesterday that Google added Google Lens to its Photos app. Likened to a search engine for the real world, the Google Lens tool is a nifty way to extract relevant information from your Google Photos.
The new tool boosts the information that can be gleaned from the viewing of a single item in the Google Photos app after tapping the Lens icon, and when a user scrolls down to the expandable information window.
With the improved interface, there is a new “Search inside this photo” section below the date, which will only emerge and appear on the screen if Google analyzes the image and thinks Google Lens would be valuable to use with the photo.
This works well in several scenarios, not least if the image contains text, where Google Lens highlights it in blue, as before. Once a user taps on the highlighted text, it can now copy it to another app, translate it, listen aloud, or search the text — all of which are actioned simply by tapping the icons to launch Google Lens.
These aren’t completely fresh additions to the Google Lens app; Google has fine-tuned the interface to make Lens’ features more readily available to launch through helpful icons at the bottom of the Google Photos app.
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