4 hours ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Sounds like nurses make the house calls

Through the program, an experienced maternal and child health nurse visits a family’s home following the birth of a child to check on both the caregiver and baby, answer questions and connect the family with additional support when needed. The service is available regardless of age, income or other eligibility criteria.

During a visit, nurses can help with breastfeeding and newborn care, screen for mental health concerns and substance use, connect families with health care and social supports, and provide referrals for needs including domestic violence, food access and other community resources. Nurses follow up with caregivers by phone two to three weeks later to make sure they were able to connect with services, address barriers and provide additional support.

In 2025, Welcome Family offered 1,620 postpartum depression screenings. Of those, 208 screened positive, and every person who screened positive received a referral to services.

2 hours ago, DEagle7 said:

Nurses for sure. We can arrange VNA for certain patients that need close monitoring already between office visits. I imagine it would work a lot like that just on a bigger scale. Fully agree it's not feasible in a place with a lower concentration of medical professional and more rural populace.

So, a free home health nursing visit, more or less.

I miss old conservatism. "Hey, do you wanna bish about $2m in gov't spending on free healthcare? Oh, no? Ok, yeah lets bish about "the man" kicking down your door and taking your kid away or something."

14 minutes ago, Bill said:

So, a free home health nursing visit, more or less.

I miss old conservatism. "Hey, do you wanna bish about $2m in gov't spending on free healthcare? Oh, no? Ok, yeah lets bish about "the man" kicking down your door and taking your kid away or something."

Yup pretty much. The US far outpaces any other moderately wealthy country in maternal and newborn death rates. This is an attempt at addressing that with a free at home nurse visit. If you don't like spending tax money on healthcare fine, but it's about the most benign government program you can imagine. And yet...

1 hour ago, Bill said:

So, a free home health nursing visit, more or less.

I miss old conservatism. "Hey, do you wanna bish about $2m in gov't spending on free healthcare? Oh, no? Ok, yeah lets bish about "the man" kicking down your door and taking your kid away or something."

Because in the old days states/schools didn't groom your kids to be trans and then take them. In the middle of that conversation people tend to be suspicious when the gov of that state says all new parents will have a visit and inspection regardless of what is on paper.

11 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

Because in the old days states/schools didn't groom your kids to be trans and then take them. In the middle of that conversation people tend to be suspicious when the gov of that state says all new parents will have a visit and inspection regardless of what is on paper.

Visit new parents then kidnap their kids and turn them gay or trans

48 minutes ago, DEagle7 said:

Yup pretty much. The US far outpaces any other moderately wealthy country in maternal and newborn death rates. This is an attempt at addressing that with a free at home nurse visit. If you don't like spending tax money on healthcare fine, but it's about the most benign government program you can imagine. And yet...

So more or less, if I'm getting this correct, Mass is spending ~2m for nurses to go into peoples houses and tell people to their face that their baby's sleeping arrangement is piss poor and to more or less spot check whether or not the kid has an infection and needs to go to the hospital?

Of all the ways for a state to spend some coin, that's not really a bad one.

1 hour ago, Diehardfan said:

Because in the old days states/schools didn't groom your kids to be trans and then take them. In the middle of that conversation people tend to be suspicious when the gov of that state says all new parents will have a visit and inspection regardless of what is on paper.

^Things a very normal person says

2 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

Because in the old days states/schools didn't groom your kids to be trans and then take them. In the middle of that conversation people tend to be suspicious when the gov of that state says all new parents will have a visit and inspection regardless of what is on paper.

Look the evidence shows that if we start chemically transitioning then within the first week of life, the betacuck conditioning peptides we introduce in the COVID vaccine are much more effective.

2 hours ago, Diehardfan said:

Because in the old days states/schools didn't groom your kids to be trans and then take them. In the middle of that conversation people tend to be suspicious when the gov of that state says all new parents will have a visit and inspection regardless of what is on paper.

Well, Gen X should have been better parents, then, if they didn't want all their kids turning trans.

3 hours ago, Bill said:

So more or less, if I'm getting this correct, Mass is spending ~2m for nurses to go into peoples houses and tell people to their face that their baby's sleeping arrangement is piss poor and to more or less spot check whether or not the kid has an infection and needs to go to the hospital?

Of all the ways for a state to spend some coin, that's not really a bad one.

And I believe they check the mother too. Make sure she's recovering. No irregular bleeding, signs of infection or retained products, blood pressure isn't spiking etc. but yeah other than that pretty much

btw, kind of off topic, but if you’re over 50 get the Shingles vaccine. So you don’t turn into a Dave Moss.

3 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

btw, kind of off topic, but if you’re over 50 get the Shingles vaccine. So you don’t turn into a Dave Moss.

Damn dude I thought it just caused a super painful rash. I didn't realize it was that dangerous.

1 hour ago, Dave Moss said:

btw, kind of off topic, but if you’re over 50 get the Shingles vaccine. So you don’t turn into a Dave Moss.

You're over 50? Or you mean you got shingles before you could get the vaccine?

29 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

You're over 50? Or you mean you got shingles before you could get the vaccine?

I turned 50 a few months back and currently have shingles. Fun times.

8 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

I turned 50 a few months back and currently have shingles. Fun times.

Torso, neck, or face?

20 minutes ago, we_gotta_believe said:

Torso, neck, or face?

On one side of my face.

1 minute ago, Dave Moss said:

On one side of my face.

Damn, that's where mine was. Do you have lesions on your forehead above your eye?

Just now, we_gotta_believe said:

Damn, that's where mine was. Do you have lesions on your forehead above your eye?

No and that’s why a co-worker told me I didn’t have shingles. However, my test results said differently. Smh

5 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

No and that’s why a co-worker told me I didn’t have shingles. However, my test results said differently. Smh

That's good at least, it means you likely are at less risk of corneal scarring. They put you on valtrex already?

13 hours ago, Dave Moss said:

btw, kind of off topic, but if you’re over 50 get the Shingles vaccine. So you don’t turn into a Dave Moss.

Hope you get over them quickly with as little pain as possible, Dave.

11 hours ago, Dave Moss said:

On one side of my face.

Damn dude that sucks. Hope you get over it quickly.

Mic drop

On 9/20/2026 at 9:15 AM, Diehardfan said:

Hope you get over them quickly with as little pain as possible, Dave.

Thanks DH.

4 minutes ago, Dave Moss said:

Thanks DH.

We may disagree on things but that has to be horrible. Is the medicine helping?

9 minutes ago, Diehardfan said:

We may disagree on things but that has to be horrible. Is the medicine helping?

Yeah, I’m on the generic version of Valtrex, but it’s working good.