Kelowna, BC. Yes midwives are provided by my healthcare that's true. My town is a little small though - we have one midwifery practice and they are all booked! But the specialized maternity clinic I found it really great. They have "group appointments" after 20 weeks where you go for two hours with other women, do…

I disagree. I think what disturbs me in particular about this song is that I don't listen to the radio (except talk radio) and I don't watch music videos but this penetrated into what seemed like all the media that i do consume. It just became so MAINSTREAM — I mean even my favourite progressive Stephen Colbert…

Fair enough, those are valid points. I live in Canada and I don't consider the hospitals to be horrendous and I won't walk out of there with a bill which I'm sure vastly influences my opinion. And my own personal backlash against too much naturalism is just that, personal, and probably just a gut reaction that I would…

This was very well put. Thank you.

I'm glad to hear you say that. I am 100% completely decided about having my baby in a hospital, but its amazing how much home-birth propaganda you hear these days. After reading the bios of the ONLY 5 midwives in my small city advocating home birth, and natural birth, and all kinds of trendy things like herbal…

Thank you!! Yeah well once I found one mention of it in my forum I had to go and dig just to see what it was, so its probably less prevalent than it seems to me after all that googling. But even just for there to be a label is upsetting.

Exactly, agreed. I don't know why I continue to be astounded how those standards spill into just every. single. aspect. of a woman's life-even the act of creating life!

So here's a thing I recently discovered: did you know that when pregnant you either have a "D" belly (desirable), or a "B" belly (undesirable)? The B belly commonly occurs when there is already a more-or-less generous layer of padding (that I definitely have) on the stomach before you are even pregnant. Then when your…

My dad lived in Salt Lake City for awhile. He LOVED to tell me about all the whacky names. (There were a lot of things he loved to tell me about that place. Nowhere else like it.)

I can't watch it in Canada!!! Grrrrrrrrrrr. I always get clip-blocked on the best ones. And I can't find it on YouTube.

That was amazing

Preach! 5'11" and 200lbs and I soothe same. Cross my legs, slouch (despite my mothers repeated lectures). I purposely try to ignore these internal promptings when I'm in a room full of men at work.

People at UBC are not above racism or else I never would have heard the term "UBC: University of a Billion Chinese".

They are. But not in business college necessarily. Male white privelage aggregated in large groups of 18 year old boys whose parents pushed them into business school is a bad combo anywhere. I worked at a bank in Vancouver with a lot of douche-canoes who got promoted very quickly up the ladder and who probably all…

Maybe not quite so much in Canada. I don't remember a lot of people caring about god when I was at UBC. I mean there is a divinity school there, and you've got your campis crusaders and all that but they don't get all up in your face. Vancouver's not really very conservative (Canada's Seattle kinda?)

Pretty sure that's the SAUDER school of business. Yup, pretty darn sure. (UBC graduate...) ETA: oh they fixed it. That was fast.

That made me spit out my milk.

Thanks! Yeah me too. Babys getting lots of fruit to make up for no broccoli, so I hope it doesn't mind!

I'm pregnant and I HATE veggies right now. A tablespoon sounds juuuuuust right :)

Perfect.