Beauty Babe | Registered Dietitian | Skincare Genius | IG: @theskintelligentchic
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With toddlers your mantra should be “don’t bother the botherer”. If you interrupt their play, it’s all over oh 😭
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If you’re pregnant, breastfeeding, have children or elderlies… please take this El Niño heat wave warnings seriously.
While the heat wave concerns everyone, it affects this group worse.
Heat strokes, kidney injury and preterm birth risk in pregnancy.
Here’s how to stay safe.
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When you’ve led resuscitation during cardiac arrests involving women during pregnancy, labour or the postpartum period, on the labour ward or in theatre, then come, let’s talk. 🗣️
Until then, I’m stepping away from this conversation.
Medicine doesn’t always offer categorical yes-or-no answers.
So YES, pregnancy can be life-threatening and sometimes fatal/ a death sentence ; whilst others might experience uncomplicated pregnancies.
Both realities deserve acknowledgement.
Hopefully, we’ll reach a point where every woman can describe her experience without fear of being dismissed, and fellow women can empathise whether or not they’ve experienced something similar.
I sometimes think about how easily I used to be able to summon tears before I lost my mother. Since I got the news in March 2025. I’ve not shed a single tear regardless of all the reasons to cry I’ve had since then, and believe me I have had some good reasons oh lol
That’s how one stupid doctor stared me blankly in the face and said my toes swelling were not “known” pregnancy symptoms so there was nothing he could do about it. They’ll never understand! Even as a dietitian my approach with pregnant women changed after I experienced it!
Nobody on this earth that has never carried a pregnancy know what it feels like, whether you study for 100 years or not. You can hear symptoms and study books all your life, but a MAN can never ever know what it feels like to be pregnant, that is why they inform their decisions from reading books and hearing from the women themselves.
I’m not saying a man cannot make medical decisions for a woman especially when it is his field, but he cannot ever know what it feels like to be her. It’s why doctors are encouraged to always listen when they are engaging with the opposite sex.
If he likes he should go to school for 50 years, everything he knows about a woman’s body comes from books and jotted notes from WOMEN.
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Nigeria has the highest maternal mortality rate in the entire world and it is still climbing.
Pregnancy and childbirth were the number killers of women for 99.9999% of human history and are still in the top 10 non-disease killers of women worldwide.
Pregnancy IS a death sentence for millions of women worldwide especially Nigeria.
Any man commenting recklessly on the topic of pregnancy and childbirth should have his lips sewn shut with needle and thread.
The policy is shitty but what’s the cost tho? I bet it doesn’t cost nearly as much and that’s the difference 😊
For a foreigner to file for Nigerian citizenship, he or she must reside in Nigeria for 15 years.., only a Nigerian man can marry a foreigner and neutralize her citizenship, a Nigerian woman can never.
Before you pile on uk immigration policy, did you ever think about the Nigerian immigration policy?
“As a girl mum when last did you receive a kiss on your cheeks” is the most irritating video I’ve seen in a long while. Boy mums are so annoying
Bold of anyone to assume that I left my single life to come and play second fiddle to extended family for the rest of my life. And this goes both ways.
I think one of the problems we have in Nigeria is that many people don't seem to understand that marriage changes family priorities.
Once someone gets married, their spouse and children become their immediate family and should come first(hence why you must marry the right partner).
Parents, siblings, cousins and other relatives are still important, but they become secondary.
For some reason, this is a very difficult concept for many Nigerian families to accept.
Buying a bagel from the supermarket and expecting it to have only five ingredients makes no sense back of the scale at which they are produced. 5 ingredient bags would go stale in two days which leaves no time for packaging and transport before they can be sold.
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You lot hammering on about “words means things” while completely skipping that she said “FELT LIKE”.
I’d never stand to see you dismiss women saying these things freely. Our mothers never shared miscarriages, pregnancy complications because of this hush culture. Speak, women.
I lost 20kg in less than a month, vomited up to 10 times a day till I gave birth and many times I begged God to take my life. But yeah kids are amazing 🥲
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I have no beef with seeds. 😂
Flaxseeds? Lovely.
Pumpkin seeds? Lovely.
Sesame seeds? Lovely.
Sunflower seeds? Also lovely.
But the moment we start assigning each seed a specific phase of the menstrual cycle and promising that this will balance your hormones, I have questions.
Seeds provide useful nutrients, including fibre, healthy fats and minerals. They can absolutely be part of a nutritious diet.
What we don’t have strong enough evidence for is treating seed cycling as an established way to correct hormonal imbalances or manage conditions such as PCOS.
And this is an important distinction in nutrition: a food can be nutritious without the particular wellness claim attached to it being proven.
Please eat your seeds. Add them to meals you enjoy.
Just don’t panic because you ate pumpkin seeds during the wrong phase of your cycle. Your hormones are not checking your seed calendar. 😭
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For heart health, I’d choose unsaturated oils like soybean, extra virgin olive oil or peanut oil over beef tallow.
Why? Beef tallow is higher in saturated fat, while these oils contain more unsaturated fats. Replacing saturated fat with unsaturated fat helps lower LDL (bad) cholesterol.
Evidence:
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2862…
cochrane.org/evidence/CD011…
Beef tallow isn’t poison,once in a while is fine , but as your major oil? No .
The type of fat matters. If you have High cholesterol or Diabetes, pls flee.
