Pregnancies are 9 months long ;)n

Haha…I was going to say April fools day but I’m constantly making this mistake! ;)

I also wonder are all hospital clocks synchronised? Maybe the clock in limerick was 2 minutes fast!

Poor kid having a name like ‘Lexi’ !!!

Some parents are very selfish

I believe in Sweden they have some type of controls in parents naming their children stupid names ?

I don’t watch eastenders but I thought Lexi was a girls name. Seems to be a boy in cork.

I just had a check with the staff in Cork and Lexi is, indeed, a girl. Apologies to all readers (and to Lexi herself) for the earlier mix-up!

Phil Mitchell won’t be happy!

Gavan, Tipp Fm were reporting this morning South Tipp GH delivered the first?

Scrap that, Just checked and it was Tipps’ first, roll on the red thumbs :P

Alex – Lexi !

Aine – With respect, your posts about infant mortality as a result of inappropriate pharmaceutical prescriptions are slightly off-topic on an article about new births.

It’s not so much ‘censorship’ as seeking to keep contributions to the most appropriate sections of the site.

My comments were NOT about infant mortality. I actually have kept a record of everything I wrote. It was about the risks of birth defects etc when women of childbearing age take “anti-depressants”. To warn the public.

And also a question mark about a suicide in 2012 of a woman pregnant on these powerful but dangerous drugs.

Feel free to contact Professor David Healy. He is on Facebook or I’m sure I can get his email address. http://www.facebook.com/david.healy.7773?ref=ts&fref=ts

https://twitter.com/DrDavidHealy

[Anyone that may read this: Never stop or change medication without consulting a good doctor, due to the dangers of withdrawal]

Or you can contact Professor Ivor Browne, Dr Peter Breggin or Dr Terry Lynch, to mention a few…I won’t elaborate!

“THE USE OF sedatives and anti-depressants has increased by 40 per cent in the last five years, according to a survey conducted by the National Advisory Committee in Drugs (NACD)” ~ http://www.thejournal.ie/sedatives-anti-depressants-647621-Oct2012/

So to use your words “inappropriate pharmaceutical prescriptions” is relevant to children born in the year 2013. As there is such a large % of women of childbearing age on these drugs.

There will never be an appropriate time to raise this issue. But the message needs to get out there.

Congratulations to all those people that have had babies born today. And hoping the very best for their future.

Aine – My point was that there may be other stories about infant mortality which would be better suited to your points than an otherwise joyous story about children which have survived pregnancy and made it into the world.

Yet again, I will repeat, I did NOT say anything about infant mortality. It is you that said it.

Amazing. The person who wrote this article got 86 likes so far about “mortality” when I never mentioned the word. Such is the POWER of the media. Now I realise how much power people like Pat Kenny has. As he is used as a propaganda machine by Psychiatry on his morning radio show. “Societal delusion”,. There is no such thing as a “chemical imbalance”. This is an illusion created by the pharmaceutical industry. “Depression” can be handled using talk therapy, good diet and nutrition, hydration, meditation, yoga and other alternative means. No need to mess around with brain chemistry and the risks that go with that. I myself developed Bipolar disorder/Manic Depression from taking these powerful but dangerous drugs “anti-depressants”. But at least I was 38 when it happened.

@gavan
I recall seeing a completely off-topic conversation about chickens and eggs, yesterday.
Perhaps you would allow us the honour of talking about whatever the hell we want?
Or do we have to wait until theJournal.ie decides to talk about censorship…. which is a pretty topical issue at the moment btw.
The conversations here often consist mainly of people slagging each other anyhow – not like it was at the start.

Call me naive but I’m actually quite disappointed that you are backing censorship @gavan

@Gordon: Responsibility for moderating each comments thread lies with the author of those articles. Each author would have to make a subjective call about what they consider to be ‘off-topic’. That’s simply all I did here.

Off topic? I don’t think so. I cannot keep this information to myself (as I follow the work of people like Professor David Healy and he has set up the drug safety website http://www.rxisk.org). I will do my best to get it out there by some other means. As I’ve said already there will never be a good time to talk about this and mainstream Psychiatrists/doctors refuse to tell the TRUTH.

As the Faithless song “Mass destruction” says: “Inaction is a weapon of Mass destruction”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1TsCud9QhU

Thanks for the reply @Gavan,
This is the first I’ve heard of on-topic enforcement on theJournal. I still consider it to be censorship myself, but I doubt you care. I wonder is this a new policy on the Journal?
It would be great if theJournal.ie would do a story around the ethics of Freedom of Speech, Freedom of Information, and the problems associated with both the lack of, and the use, of moderation & censorship on online forums.