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Low milk supply

Thank you for creating this article - your edit summary was moving. I edit women's topics for some of the same reasons. Women needed this article and now, because of you, it exists. Thank you for all that you done for women and babies.

The Very Best of Regards,

Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 23:57, 20 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you! You just made my day :) Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 00:00, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

As you have made mine! I hope we get to meet one day. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 00:04, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

That would be lovely! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 00:17, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

A barnstar for you!

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Editors like you are unusual. You seem to be connected to 'real-life' and create content that is relevant to under-represented groups on Wikipedia. There are women and families that will greatly benefit from your work on Wikipedia for helping them to find answers to difficult questions. I appreciate your sensitivity to creating content that is missing. Barbara (WVS) ✐ ✉ 00:03, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

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On 19 December 2017, Did you know was updated with a fact from the article Low milk supply, which you recently created, substantially expanded, or brought to good article status. The fact was ... that skin-to-skin contact (pictured) can help to augment low milk supply in breastfeeding women? The nomination discussion and review may be seen at Template:Did you know nominations/Low milk supply. You are welcome to check how many page hits the article got while on the front page (here's how, Low milk supply), and it may be added to the statistics page if the total is over 5,000. Finally, if you know of an interesting fact from another recently created article, then please feel free to suggest it on the Did you know talk page.

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Hello, I'm organizing a Wikipedia Edit-a-thon in Vancouver on March 9, 2018 and was wondering if you would be interested in joining us as a Wikipedia mentor. If you are interested please respond and I will send you more details. Thanks, Carly Diab (talk) 21:55, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes @Carly Diab: please send me details. Cheers! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 22:07, 25 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Great! Our event is part of the Art+Feminism Wikipedia Edit-a-thon. It will take place at Emily Carr University on 520 East 1st Ave in Vancouver on March 9 12-5. Carly Diab (talk) 00:22, 26 January 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello, We are hosting another Wikipedia Edit-a-thon at Emily Carr University Library on March 8, 2019 from 12-4pm. Are you available to join us as a Wikipedia mentor again? It was so great having you there last year! Thanks so much! Carly Diab (talk) 03:56, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Carly. Nice to hear from you! Unfortunately I can't make it this time. Best wishes and good luck with the edit-a-thon, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 16:41, 25 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

I can make it after all. Emailed you. Cheers! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 23:01, 7 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Diarrhea

Good catch, thanks :-) Vikom (talk) 06:01, 1 February 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hello

You were kind at ANI. I would like to go back to the Breastfeeding article to correct my errors. Would you allow that? If you would like to see that happen can you go back to ANI and let them know. Best Regards, Barbara ✐ ✉ 19:27, 18 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Barbara. Thanks for your note. You are handling a stressful situation with grace. I think it would be simplest for the time being if you avoid editing medical articles in mainspace. However, if you could address my questions at Talk:Postpartum physiological changes that would be really great. Take care, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 04:50, 19 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

skin to skin...

Clayoquot, sometimes I'm not sure about what is just fine for a talk page and sometimes I worry that my reasoning is poor. I wrote this edit thinking I'd add it to the Postpartum article talk page but I just hesitated too long to press the publish button. So I'm posting it to your talk page. And BTW, I can hardly say how much I appreciate the work that Flyer has done and your efforts as well, to make our work a little more enjoyable. XXXOOO

Aw, I see now... That article is the one that was recently discussed... Yes it is very problematic though perhaps there is much that can be rescued and added here? Also, Clayoquot, I am the one that added the Fourth stage to the childbirth article. I had to chuckle when I added it because as a nurse, traditionally, that's where we clicked in as the boss of patient care (back when there were few woman physicians)...so it was not surprising at all that the medical references that were being used just skipped that part...hard to put into just a few words what I'm getting at here because it gets into the whole male/female power structure that we are finally making headway into disassembling. Anyway, back on track, I believe that the skin-to-skin (kangaroo) info that I added is important and I'd like to see that added here as well. What do you think? Gandydancer (talk) 05:15, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Your note made me smile, thanks! That's an interesting anecdote about power structures in medical references. Re: skin-to-skin, the Childbirth article says it is beneficial for both mother and baby, but the evidence presented there is mostly about the baby and the success of breastfeeding. In the Postpartum period article, I think it would be really cool to focus on the benefit to the mother, whether or not she breastfeeds. Which also reminds me... stuff has been written about how, at least in North America, it's hard for a lot of postpartum moms to think about themselves and about self-care. It would be good to mention that too. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 23:13, 20 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

It's so good to talk with you Clayoquot--hopefully you won't mind if I just chat on a bit... About the skin-to-skin care, considering how slow the medical profession has been to accept new concepts in the past it is amazing how quickly skin-to-skin was accepted - almost overnight the gov't agencies, WHO, etc. were calling for it. Talking to my daughter Jane the other day about the changes in birth from when I had her when there was one midwife in all of Minneapolis and while I wanted to use her, nobody felt it was safe at that time. (I remember asking her about the episiotomy and she said, "I let them tear naturally", and now all these years later it is finally known that she was correct.) I did nurse her despite all odds as it was very rare at that time. And then when Jane had her first it was in a kiddie swimming pool in their living room with a midwife attending. But I chuckled telling her about how I watched my dog Maya gave birth in such a loving and sensible way to her 13 puppies, carefully biting the cord and licking them clean --I suggested to Jane that who knows--perhaps the licking part is also an important and marvelous thing that gets the baby off to a good start and perhaps one day we will say, "Remember back when we were so dumb and didn't know to lick the baby clean all over after it was born?"

BTW, Jane's second and last baby was born in 42 minutes flat--that's from the first suggestion of a cramp. So I guess it goes without saying that the baby was born at home with her husband's assist. They got a half-page write-up in our local paper.

You say, "it's hard for a lot of postpartum moms to think about themselves and about self-care". I'm not sure what you mean here. One thing I do wonder about is how on earth a woman can go back to work so early. I was so exhausted I could hardly drag myself around after the first one. Back in my day most women were still stay-at-home moms, that has all changed. Do you think we should include something about that? European governments are much better to their new parents, aren't they? Gandydancer (talk) 00:50, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Always good to hear your stories, Gandydancer :)

What I meant by my comment about self-care is that a lot of new moms are so focused on the baby, they only reluctantly give themselves permission to take a few minutes for themselves to do a sitz bath or go to a physio appointment. That state of mind, and the whole overwhelmingness that spurs it, is a common experience that is probably described in a reliable source or two.

It's really interesting how different various cultures are within the West when it comes to postpartum mothers. Here in Canada, maternity/parental leave is usually 12 months, with partial pay. The short maternity leaves in the U.S. seem like a bizarre social norm to us. Yes, it would be great to talk about societal beliefs and customs in modern, industrialized cultures when it comes to the postpartum period. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 04:30, 21 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've read that in previous centuries, and in other places, the grandmothers and aunts basically swooped in after birth, collected the baby, and told the mother to rest now, because she had been through an ordeal and they'd take care of everything, but she needed to rest. Sometimes there were problems with this approach (e.g., wet nursing in well-off European families was sometimes used as a way of maximizing legitimate births), but overall there seemed to be an understanding that the mother needed recovery time, and that this meant that other people had to take care of the baby, the food, the household, etc. I hear that the modern American approach is to expect the mother to get up and do everything as soon as possible after the birth, with very little help and no encouragement to prioritize self-care over anything else. Finding some sources that compare and contrast over time and across cultures could be very interesting. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:21, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

I've started working on the Postpartum article which does contain "lying in" information and I plan to get back to it and do more work. BTW Clayoquot, are you aware of this new article Wikipedia talk:Wikipedia is not YouTube? I ask because I've picked up from your edits that you have skills related to this area. Hope all is well with you and I'm so grateful to have such an intelligent WP editor...that thinks like I do.

Gandydancer (talk) 18:59, 29 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the Youtube essay is good. The community seems to be finding its way. Isn't it a relief we don't have to watch the breastfeeding video anymore? I am so happy. Have a wonderful weekend! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 04:20, 30 March 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Hey, thanks for working on the to-do list for the breast pump editathon! Much appreciated. If you want to remotely join the event this weekend, I just made a dashboard: [1]; also, I'd love a second set of experienced eyes on people's edits, if you have time to look things over. Thanks! phoebe / (talk to me) 19:49, 27 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Phoebe. Thanks for your note :) I wish I could help more but I'll be unavailable during the edit-a-thon itself. I will try to look at things on Saturday evening. Good luck! Best wishes, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 02:19, 28 April 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks, Gerda that made my day :) Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 17:34, 10 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

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Lovely! Happy new year to you too Gerda :) Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 00:11, 15 January 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Thanks Xaosflux and @JJMC89: :) Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 16:39, 1 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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I'm not touching this article with a 1,000 foot pole ;) Feel free to get in touch with the checkuser team. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 22:04, 13 March 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Aw, thanks Blue Rasberryfor your note! Best, Clayoquot (talk | contribs)

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Hi there, if you have time could you please look at the "Accuracy of terms" section of the Heartbeat bill to check the sourcing. I deleted it all except for the first sentence due to poor sourcing (and actually I question whether or not we should even attempt to argue the particulars of the physiology of the embryonic/fetal heart in the first place). Let me know... Thanks and I hope all is well with you. Gandydancer (talk) 23:50, 7 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gandydancer. This is an interesting question. Personally I think it's appropriate to describe the physiology of the embryonic/fetal heart in this section. I've taken a quick look and the part that caught my attention is "In the medical literature the terms "heartbeat", "heart activity" and "cardiac activity" are used interchangeably during embryonic development. That claim requires a source that explictly states that these terms are used interchangeably . The sources that are cited appear to merely use a variety of terms, rather than explicitly describing how these terms are used. If you took out the word "interchangeably" then the sentence and its sources might be OK, however if these terms are also used when talking about fetal/child/adult hearts you would probably need to also take out "during embryonic development". Does this help? You could probably get wider perspectives at WT:RS. Cheers and best wishes, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 21:10, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Great help! I thought you'd throw your arms up and say none of the sources were acceptable for med-related stuff. I changed the wording to avoid synth. Thanks. Gandydancer (talk) 01:09, 9 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Tapered, please don't worry about it. Your interpretation of the editor's actions was completely understandable. I don't personally know Nalinip69, or remember if Nalini was a he or a she. Retention rates after edit-a-thons are something like 5%, so if he/she doesn't come back it's very unlikely to be because of anything you did. Take care and really, really don't worry about it. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 05:45, 28 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

WikiProject Climate Change: project support?

Hi Clayoquot, I just wanted to say thanks for the support of the proposal for renaming global warming -> climate change. That discussion started on the talk page for a new WikiProject recently proposed and was fully supported there, but when it was transferred to the GW talk page itself, suddenly it seemed to rub people up the wrong way and the discussion quickly became personal, at which point I bowed out. I've been keeping an eye on it, and most of the reaction seems to be negative, although no one has a good argument against the simple facts as you (and I previously) stated them. Anyway: thanks!

Which brings me to the main point of getting in touch with you: perhaps you'd like to support the creation of the (correctly named! ) WikiProject Climate Change? It would be great if you were to come on board as one of its participants, but at this stage just getting the support we need to ensure it is launched will be great.

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Thanks Cadar for your note and for moving the Wikiproject proposal forward. I've added my support for the project. I'm having a busy time at work right now but would love to help more when I can. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 17:37, 12 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks so much for the support! Looking forward to working on it with you in the future. And don't worry - I know all about how real life has this really inconvenient way of interfering with time on Wikipedia! I've got tons of stuff lined up on my WP to-do list, but I don't get the time at the moment

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Just sending this FYI to everyone recently in the topic area who doesn't have one in the last 12 months. And before I posted here, I sent one to myself too. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 01:59, 15 July 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Clayoquot - this reply is only from the 'sustainable energy' section. You mentioned something - if I had possible suggestions about the definition. Maybe something like - 'sustainable energy' is not a term that describes any particular source of energy itself, but is instead a 'term' that refers to a particular or developing 'practice' (involving a group of people or workers) working towards acquiring/gathering and supplying of energy that does not use/deplete the earth's own natural reserves/sources of energy. Also, eventually, discussions will lead to words like 'renewable energy', and renewable energy refers to energy sources that are by all practical-purposes (assumed) to be inexhaustible (at least meaning still obtainable for the duration of our own civilisation's lifespan). The main issue is that there is always talk about these words 'sustainable energy' and 'renewable energy', and there appears to be no decent definition of their 'meaning'. Sure, lots of various sources provide some definitions, but I think the 'go-to' source (like Wikipedia) can really help everyone out by providing some really solid definitions. KorgBoy (talk) 04:25, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi KorgBoy. I really appreciate your taking the time to comment on this article. I'm going to re-read what the article currently says in the context of your comments and the available sources, and try to make it more clear. It might take me a few days to do this. Also if you don't mind, I'll move the above comment to Talk:Sustainable energy so others can follow the conversation. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:28, 2 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hello! I added your ideas to the Med requested articles project page. JenOttawa (talk) 00:47, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks Jen :) I added some more. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 05:48, 7 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi, in my own userspace I have started a table in which I am trying to super-succinctly summarize the Not-Votes and perspectives that have been raised. This is a work in progress, but I have at least finished my initial data-entry for what you've said. If you would like to me change anything, please use the talk page attached the table. Thanks! NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 08:47, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The table is nothing more than my personal notes about what I - not you - understand. Please revert your changes to the table and add your additional thougts to the talk page. I promise to read them, and try to make an honest effort to summarize your views in my notes as shown in the table. Also, there is no requirement that a closer even LOOK at the table. It is, after all, just my notes. But I can still hope a closer will take the time. Anyway, if you don't like what my notes say that's fine. But they are still my notes, to which I claim ownership. If you would like me to change my notes, please first change my mind. You can best do that by adding/changing what you said in the main thread. Alternatively, use the table's talk page. I reserve the option of reverting your table tweaks, because, after all, the table is nothing more than a summary of hwat I heard, and I don't believe you can accurately read my mind to know what I heard. The whole point of this exercise is to stop trying read each other's minds and accurately summarize one anothers opinion so well that the other person says "Yeah, that's pretty much what I think." I would like to get there, but if you try to edit what I think you said, that's an obstacle to my really knowing what you said. Thanks for your cooperation. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 19:02, 24 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Greetings! Thanks for reverting your tweaks to my notes at the table. Since the table's purpose is understanding, and I had time tonight, I have studied the changes you wanted to make to see what was important to you.

I think you were trying to "address the narrow issue" by quoting from a comment you made in the earlier preliminary thread at this diff. That's great, however, the important place to update your views is in the formal rename thread. A closer won't study the prior discussions threads and may not even look at my table (although I hope they do).

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FYI, I just started Wikipedia:WikiProject_Climate_change/sources and am going through the NAS reports there... I figured I would do this as a project page rather than user page so that others can find it too. We can transfer this to the spreadsheet as needed. cheers, -- phoebe / (talk to me) 15:24, 1 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for starting this, Phoebe! It looks like this page is serving two purposes, i.e. 1) describing sources in general and 2) delving into what can be done with the information in one single source. I'm planning to split it the latter stuff into a separate page, Wikipedia:WikiProject Climate change/Negative emissions technologies. It will need some introduction, when we're ready, to make sense to everyone else. @Sadads: - pinging you so you know where I've moved it. Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 01:00, 2 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

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Hi there, I hope all is well with you. Say, could you please take a look at the Water birth article talk page re using several not strictly MEDRS sources? While you are there you might take a look at the article which most likely left a lot to be desired anyway, but has been recently edited by a student. Thanks. Gandydancer (talk) 15:30, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi Gandydancer. Sure, I'll take a look as soon as I can. I have a fire to put out with more student editing at another article, but I'll try to get to Water birth soon. I hope you are well! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 18:33, 4 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Hi again Gandydancer. I replied on the Talk page. I'm super-glad to see you and JenOttawa are on it. Regarding the Breastfeeding article, I don't think I was the one who removed content about stopping milk letdown with pressure, but if it was me I would revert myself. I actually think that that particular claim doesn't need MEDRS sourcing because it's a harmless parenting skill. Gotta run now but let me know if I can help further. Take care!Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 01:22, 6 August 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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Gerda Arendt, Thank you kindly :) Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 04:04, 31 October 2020 (UTC)[reply]

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The instructions for the GAN ask, optionally, that two other articles are reviewed when you nominate your own. I've done one. Do you feel like doing the other? If not, I'll do another one when I've got more time. FemkeMilene (talk) 09:40, 14 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Femkemilene, Yes, I'll review one article. Thanks for moving all of this forward! Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 05:52, 15 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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It was highly innapropriate to move Draft:Mercury Pollution in Canada into mainspace, particulalrly as it was immediately after it had been rejected a short while earlier. You do not have New page reviewer rights on Wikipedia, and no evidence was aduced to deomstrate why you thought that this should be moved into mainspace. You have been around for long enough to recognise an article that belongs in main-space and one that doesn't. You may note that I agreed that the topic was probably notable but that the article, as written, clearly wasn't. Is there a special reason why you believe that you can and should subvert the normal review process on Wikipedia.? Velella ^{Velella Talk} 22:45, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Please read through the Draft again. It is full of misspellings. It presents complex environmental issues in a greatly oversimplified, and often wrong, way. It reads like a teenager's essay who has just been introduced to the issue of Mercury pollution. There is a lot of good content on mercury and its environmental effects on Wikipedia and this adds very little and also greatly detracts from the topic. I am aware that you are Canadian and this is a Canadian issue, but the standards remain the same. This is an encyclopaedia with articles of encyclopaedic quality. I am by training and profession an environmental scientist who worked in the field of environmental regulation, including the control of mercury in the environment, for more than 30 years. This article does not do environmental science any credit. I do hope that you can see that . Velella ^{Velella Talk} 23:11, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Hello. I've replied on your Talk page as I'd originally commented there. Best, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 23:33, 28 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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Femkemilene, Exciting ! :) Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 23:14, 27 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Some citations didn't copy over

Your recent additions to the cooking section produce empty citations. I assume some error with copying? FemkeMilene (talk) 18:45, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks! Should be fixed now. Cheers, Clayoquot (talk | contribs) 19:45, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]