Solution... tell your daughters and granddaughters to stop drinking while pregnant

that advice is free


http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/Norway-House-walkers-arrive-in-city-today-102526049.html


But I bet you want money right?

Provide more resources?

How about a cork? to keep the bottles sealed?

Or maybe a few doctors to snip some genital parts? Then they can drink as much as they want!

I wonder why they are marching to the city... shouldn't they be marching to Ottawa?

Or is our Premier going to step up and use Manitoba dollars for a federal problem yet again?

Perhaps FASD could become a new industry in some Reserves? We could ship all the FASD people to one and they could be paid to look after them. heh heh...the irony....

Too bad they couldn't get more people to march with them...then we'd have a decent piece of real estate in Norway House to start moving to .

Did they really walk ALL the way from Norway House?

Or did they walk 10 feet, jump in a bus...camp...walk 10 feet...jump in a bus...camp?

Someone is always walking usually one or two or so at time. ( except at night)

so...they DIDN'T all walk from Norway House?

See...some real hypocrites there.

Either make the hike or don't...but odds are they each only walked 1/100th of the way...so their support dedication should be treated as such.

If they have 100 people walking...that counts as 1 person making the hike.

I cant comment on this on specifically. But usually that is how it works.

"will finish the last leg of their 10-day, 810-km journey today."

how many grandmas, hell how many people do you know that can walk 81km per day?

lets see... roughly 13 hours of sunlight per day.... so 6.2km per hour. Interestingly enough Wiki puts the average walking speed for an adult at 4.8km per hour. But with switching off every km or so you could see how a 6.2km per hour could be easily obtainable.

http://www.winnipegsun.com/news/manitoba/2010/09/09/15301861.html


Rondeau took the opportunity to announce funding for a new program aimed at encouraging women at high risk of an alcohol-exposed pregnancy to either drink less or use more contraception in order to prevent FASD.


so I go hunting on the mb website and get this new release

http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?archive=&item=9620


. “Through the use of motivational interviewing strategies, the Project CHOICES program supports women who want to change behaviours around alcohol use and/or contraception use. Project CHOICES will be added to the many existing community supports such as the FASD Centre and FASD Network, Spectrum Connections, InSight Mentoring, the Youth Justice Program and S.O.S. Manitoba.”


http://news.gov.mb.ca/news/index.html?archive=&item=9620

STOP DRINKING WHILE PREGNANT!

DONT HAVE UNPROTECTED SEX!

Heh!

On the news last night they showed one of the Klinic workers saying " We're not going to tell them what to do, we're just going to support them in their choices"

Shut the frick up!

I'll tell them what to do - Don't drink when pregnant. If someone conceives an FAS child in this day and age, they should be forced to undergo mandatory sterilization.

what we need is for someone to turn that AntiDrinking drugs into a little insertion under the skin drug thingy like they do for pregnancy so that its 5 year stints before being able to drink again.

unfortunately...it's not automatic.

As soon as the birth is completed...they should put the mom under and tie some tubes.

If they can find the father...they should snip him too for not protecting the kid.

insert the antipreggers thingy at the same time. 5 years of no alcohol and no pregnancy goes along way to them straightening their lives out.

From what I understand of FASD, the people that have it will almost all require some form of permanent oversite for their entire lives.

Without this thing getting out of control, with patient to nurse ratios of 1 to 20, we will need to build facilities to house and oversee these people.

So, let's do that now.

Also, if a woman has a baby that has FASD she should automatically have her tubes tied...actually, removed.

From what I have heard, these people want money, and more money from the Feds, to give to the care givers of the FASD people, who are mothers or grandmothers of the FASDers themselves. I say NO to that crap!!

Estimates from the nineties with regards to costs incurred until the age of 18 - FASD sufferers - approximately 2 million dollars. May sound high but take into consideration the extra manpower for special needs classes, possible incarceration (more than likely as many incarcerated folks have FASD), other medical needs....the list is endless.

oh I am not saying that the FASD kids we do have, we should not try to help out.

I agree on that.

St Norberter wrote:Heh!

On the news last night they showed one of the Klinic workers saying " We're not going to tell them what to do, we're just going to support them in their choices"

Shut the frick up!

I'll tell them what to do - Don't drink when pregnant. If someone conceives an FAS child in this day and age, they should be forced to undergo mandatory sterilization.

Klinic and the Women's clinic now support these pregnancies and do not urge termination.....I mean, that would be advocating genocide right?

How is it that no other mentally-challenged people are troubled like FASD people? Maybe I don't understand the effects that alcohol has on brain development, but why aren't there downs syndrome kids causing trouble like FASD kids?

FYI:

If women drink when they are pregnant, their babies may have brain damage. This means that children and adults who are affected may have a hard time learning and controlling their behaviour. For example, they may appear to learn how do to a new task one day, and not remember the next. Other common problems include having trouble :

-adding, subtracting and handling money
-thinking things through / reasoning
-learning from experience
-understanding consequences of their actions
-remembering things, and
-getting along with others.

Because of their disabilities, people who are affected by FASD may have special needs that require life long help - even throughout adulthood - regarding :

-handling money, such as paying rent and buying food
-learning from their experiences and making changes in their behaviour
-understanding consequences of their behaviour, or "cause and effect"
-interacting with other people socially, and
-keeping a job.

Affected people may develop mental health problems, have trouble with the law, drop out of school (or be disruptive in a classroom), are unemployed and/or may develop alcohol and drug problems. They may even be homeless.

We also know that people with FASD may be very good at many things. They may be loving, affectionate, friendly, artistic, musical, work well with animals and plants, be very loyal and show a great determination to succeed in life!

http://www.phac-aspc.gc.ca/fasd-etcaf/faq-eng.php#1

I will cover that $2,000,000

I would love to cover a billion dollars of funding for FASD.
if the parents of current FASD kids will stop every other FASD kid from happening ever again.

oh wait the parents seldom give a damn.

As a woman who has been pregnant more than once, I can say with confidence that it's not that difficult to avoid drinking/drugs/smoking while pregnant. If you don't pick it up and put it to your lips, it fails to be a problem. I understand that some people will fall into that "holy sh1t, I never knew I was pregnant" category, and stupid teenagers will do what they do, but the vast majority of FASD cases are entirely avoidable.