I took testosterone for endometriosis and it totally fucked with my body, made me feel like absolute shit. As you may know from infertility treatments, (at least this was my experience with them,) messing with you hormones artificially can leave you feeling way worse than someone with those same hormone levels…

Yeah their coverage left me wondering if she was the first black women from anywhere to gold medal in swimming or the first Af-Am woman.

So many fewer rural white democrats than there used to be, though. My grandparents were poor white farmers in Indiana and Democratic Party folks through and through. That seems much rarer nowadays, it wasn’t unusual at all in their time.

You can buy some dry shampoos in dark colors. I have medium-brown hair and with bad formulations of dry shampoo can get a white/grey effect, but with good formulations I don't.

What? Not if you fly into/out of Bogota.

Sperm doesn’t freeze just fine on an individual level. There is plenty of die-off but there are so many that it doesn’t matter for fertility treatments. They can also lose their ability to swim in a freeze/thaw.

Sperm react poorly, too. There are just so many of them it doesn't matter for ICSI.

Freezing embryos is a lot more successful. Many times cells die upon freezing/thawing. Since embryos are multicellular, they can tolerate like 30% or so cell death and regenerate just fine. Sperm can have a lot die and you still have plenty for ICSI (assisted fertilization) where you only need one good looking sperm…

That’s not how IVF works. Frozen embryos are a key part of the process. Not creating frozen embryos means a couple could need to do 6 or more rounds of stimulation/retrieval instead of one. You make frozen embryos because the first transfer often doesn’t take, or sometimes your hormone levels or endometrium makes a…

Replied to OP but not sure if i’ll be ungreyed there. Cleft palates/lips form by 12 weeks, so even if alcohol alone can cause it, it's certainly not caused by drinking in the second and third trimesters.

Cleft palates and lips are formed in the second half of the first trimester. Most people and advice claiming it is safe to drink occasionally during pregnancy claim it is safe after the first trimester. Which is when a bartender would be able to spot a pregnancy.

I feel like it’s of a piece with the PETA “shelter” that is a euthanasia factory. People who think any type of human management/domestication is worse than death or extinction.

It’s absolutely largely due to a broadening of the spectrum. There were two competing theories of autism, one with very strict diagnostic criteria, and one with broad, spectrum criteria. When we shifted to the broader criteria, all of a sudden there was a huge jump in diagnoses. Shocking, right? Anti-vaxxers love to…

BRB, registering for this now.

It wasn't directed at me but thanks for the rec! I have Rosacea so I need a physical sunscreen for my face (chemical doesn't stop what aggravates the Rosacea) and haven't found one I love yet.

Haha good to know!

That’s awesome it's working so well for you! I was going to use charlie’s soap but I guess there is some controversy with it over kids getting chemical burns? I think it is probably mostly from user error/sensitivity but I figure it’s better to try it after I’m out of the sleep-deprived newborn stage if user error is…

Thanks! I have sensitive skin (eczema and Rosacea) and my dad is sensitive as well so good chance kiddo could be. I found a detergent that is free of all the additives that can irritate but is cheap and effective (reportedly) called country save. And their advertising is not full of woo and scare-mothering like lots…

Yeah it’s such BS. I’m planning on cloth diapering the little one I’m cooking up at the moment, and ever since I started researching it, I’ve been inundated with honest company “eco” disposable diaper ads. They’re the only diaper ads I get. Soooo environmentally sound, to try to lure me away from cloth diapering.…