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[bibliothecary]

Loved my home birth. I had a low risk pregnancy and I live close to a hospital. Were I in the middle of nowhere, I might have made a different decision.

[jorkzy]

Aug 10, 2016 7:51:36 GMT -5 @amyg said:

Saying I'd like to see formula be improved isn't a slam about formula being poison. It's a good product and it can be improved on.

There are other ways to reach the % of sugars necessary without using things we usually consider unhealthy like high fructose corn syrup. That should be something we should all be able to agree on. That a good product that is so important for babies growth should be as good of a product as we can make commercially in our smarty pants society.

And if your own diet is full of high fructose corn syrup and you are breastfeeding you may get a side eye and a comment about your diet could be improved as well.

I am laughing about laughing about lactivist studies cause that isn't actually a thing. Most of what we know of the composition of breastmilk comes from studies funded by formula companies over the years.

Ok but corn syrup solids =\= HFCS

[angelashly]

Aug 10, 2016 8:25:18 GMT -5 @sweptaway said:

My kid has quite a few toy guns. I don't like it and H knows I don't like it but it's not something I'm willing to draw a hard line over.

This is a hard no from me and I would draw a million hard lines over it.

Do I need to remind you that most toy guns look real and the child can be hurt or killed because of it?

[mrsrexmanning]

Aug 10, 2016 8:32:35 GMT -5 @sterling said:

Aug 10, 2016 8:31:27 GMT -5 @jboogie said:

So much yes to all of this. I wish I could love tit this 1,000 times.

I have similar feels on VBAC. Like, why is it so magical to have a baby pass through your birth canal? Sorrynotsorry.

Shorted recovery and ability to have more than 3 children if you desire to are both legit reasons.

[jnow]

How do you have room in your freezer for a placenta???

[shemarie82]

Honestly, I think that I would be irritated being woke up at 1am and B was out at the bar, unless there was someone seriously injured or she needed a ride somewhere.

Most likely, both of us in that situation tell each other the next day. It would be like "Guess what this drunk mother fucker did..."

[lovemyirishtwins]

My mil and I are very close. We have on occasion talked about our sex lives. DH would not like this if he knew. She is actually one of the only people I talk to about my sex life.

To make it weirder, I would never talk to my sister about my sex life. She is my best friend. We talk every day but we don't go there.

[mrsrexmanning]

Aug 10, 2016 8:36:23 GMT -5 jnow said:

How do you have room in your freezer for a placenta???

How big do you think a placenta is?

[jorkzy]

Aug 10, 2016 8:06:02 GMT -5 yogini kiki said:

Sometimes I publicly support things that I know are good even when I secretly don't like it.

Such as?

[Cherhorowitz]

I can not even imagine talking about my sex life with the man I'm having sex with's mom.

Hard. Fucking. Pass.

[cadien]

I've known many people who kept organs and even dead pets in the freezer for way too long because they couldn't decide what to do with them and a freezer is very out of sight out of mind. So I'm not scandalized at all.

[yogini kiki]

Aug 10, 2016 8:37:25 GMT -5 lovemyirishtwins said:

My mil and I are very close. We have on occasion talked about our sex lives. DH would not like this if he knew. She is actually one of the only people I talk to about my sex life.

To make it weirder, I would never talk to my sister about my sex life. She is my best friend. We talk every day but we don't go there.

[Deleted]

Aug 10, 2016 8:29:36 GMT -5 jojo said:

I will now never accept another vegetable from a neighbors garden again on the off chance it was fertilized with birth water.

All of my neighbors are really old....I never realized how lucky I was that I don't have to worry about this.

[mrsrexmanning]

Aug 10, 2016 8:37:58 GMT -5 @sterling said:

Aug 10, 2016 8:35:53 GMT -5 mrsrexmanning said:

Shorted recovery and ability to have more than 3 children if you desire to are both legit reasons.

You can't have more than three c-sections? Because I know someone who had 7 kids and 7 c-sections? And a shortened recovery time can absolutely not be guaranteed ahead of a VBAC.

7 cesareans is a lot risker than a vbac.

[jjandsa]

Sex life talk with MIL?!!!!?

[creepyeyeball]

Aug 10, 2016 8:36:22 GMT -5 @hilarityensued said:

Aug 10, 2016 8:33:07 GMT -5 elephantastic said:

Not scandalized by the birth water dumping. It's your yard. Nothing "dangerous" about it that I can tell.

I read it as she was dumping it over her fence onto... whatever was on the other side.  

I'm not really that scandalized by dumping a birthing tub out in the yard but I think I would want a few solid storms because I'm frolicking out there.

Well, the tub is too heavy to lift and dump. You actually pump it out with a hose. As I mentioned, my births were in winter, so I just ran the hose out to the garden beds. Nothing was growing there at the time. It's the equivalent of throwing compost on an empty bed. Not sure I would pump that water directly on veggies. I would probably pump it into the compost pile if I had a summer birth

[kam3100]

Aug 10, 2016 8:38:05 GMT -5 @gotgingy said:

Sooo definitely not as serious as some topics thus far, but my confession is that after 2+ years in our house, I still run into our black interior doors at night. Last night I smashed into our bedroom door at full speed, spilling all of the water in my giant cup and bruising my forehead. I felt so stupid I wouldn't tell DH what happened when he asked why I was mopping the floor at 10 pm.

I'm a horrible person for the literal lol going on right now.

[elephantastic]

Aug 10, 2016 8:38:35 GMT -5 Cherhorowitz said:

I can not even imagine talking about my sex life with the man I'm having sex with's mom.

Hard. Fucking. Pass.

Also- If I had a son, DNW his wife talking to me about his dick. No thx.

[jojo]

I can't even imagine how a sex conversation with my MIL would go. I once watched 20 minutes of Magic Mike with her when she wanted to watch it "to see what it was about" and it might have been the most awkward 20 minutes of my life.

[rach]

I clip & paint my 1 yo's toenails weekly. She sits so patiently for the clipping ever since we started painting them afterward.

[bibliothecary]

Aug 10, 2016 8:37:36 GMT -5 @sweptaway said:

Aug 10, 2016 8:35:18 GMT -5 bibliothecary said:

Loved my home birth. I had a low risk pregnancy and I live close to a hospital. Were I in the middle of nowhere, I might have made a different decision.

A low risk pregnancy does not mean a low risk birth

Please also see note about hospital proximity. Like, I could walk there.

[cadien]

Aug 10, 2016 7:45:51 GMT -5 librarychica said:

Aug 10, 2016 7:43:56 GMT -5 @uncaripswife said:

I've never cut my 3 1/2 year old's hair and maybe won't for years. Her hair is crazy. But the hair around her face is juuust now long enough to get in a ponytail. I'll cut it when she wants it cut. I guess.

I have the opposite confession -- I cut my 4yos hair every 6 weeks.

"Those beautiful curls! Why don't you let her grow them out?"

"Because I'm lazy."

I've convinced her that short hair is the best.

It's going to be a cycle. My mother didn't let me cut my hair until junior high because she was forced to always have short hair as a child.
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[angelashly]

Aug 10, 2016 8:37:58 GMT -5 @sterling said:

Aug 10, 2016 8:35:53 GMT -5 mrsrexmanning said:

Shorted recovery and ability to have more than 3 children if you desire to are both legit reasons.

You can't have more than three c-sections? Because I know someone who had 7 kids and 7 c-sections. And a shortened recovery time can absolutely not be guaranteed ahead of a VBAC.

Yep. My friend had 5 and if she wouldn't have had so much scar tissue that her doctor told her she would never be able to carry a baby to term again she would have kept going.

[angelashly]

Aug 10, 2016 8:37:25 GMT -5 lovemyirishtwins said:

My mil and I are very close. We have on occasion talked about our sex lives. DH would not like this if he knew. She is actually one of the only people I talk to about my sex life.

To make it weirder, I would never talk to my sister about my sex life. She is my best friend. We talk every day but we don't go there.

NEWP

[SheilaTheTank]

Aug 10, 2016 8:33:50 GMT -5 @sterling said:

Aug 10, 2016 8:32:10 GMT -5 SheilaTheTank said:

You do realize that most fertilizer is full of way grosser shit then that? 

But presumably none of it is directly from humans, so hard pass on the soylent green fertilizer.

nope, sorry.

New York has been selling treated human waste to farms for a while now as fertilizer. 


www.vice.com/video/you-dont-know-shit-full-185

[puffandstuff]

I get annoyed when grown people call themselves "Kings" or "Queens". This excludes Queen Latifah.

[veganontuesdays]

Aug 10, 2016 8:32:57 GMT -5 creepyeyeball said:

Aug 10, 2016 8:29:36 GMT -5 jojo said:

I will now never accept another vegetable from a neighbors garden again on the off chance it was fertilized with birth water.

People usually grow veggies in animal feces. Not sure why a little water full of amniotic fluid and blood is any different. All organic fertilizer is nasty. But effective.

Jesus

[catahoulatte]

Had to google black interior doors. I was picturing a very emo looking house.

Actually the google images are very nice. NMS but now I can envision it.





LOL at envision it, pun not intended.

[elephantastic]

Aug 10, 2016 8:38:40 GMT -5 cadien said:

I've known many people who kept organs and even dead pets in the freezer for way too long because they couldn't decide what to do with them and a freezer is very out of sight out of mind. So I'm not scandalized at all.

My cat recently died and it was raining outside that night. My H was all "Do I have to bury her tonight, it's raining?!". I said "The freezer is full and the rain = soft ground. Get to it, chop, chop!"

When I was in college (6 hours from home) I often thought of what I would do if one of my pets died (cat and small dog). The game plan was the freezer until I could get home so my pet could be buried in my parent's yard. It never happened so I didn't have to implement that plan. I'm not scandalized by an animal in the freezer but I would not sit and think on it for 6 months or anything.

[yogini kiki]

Unless I find a midwife that can cut me open and get a baby out in under five minutes from the moment of distress I'm team no for home births.