I’m on the other side - my AMH is 8.5 so PCOS - but I have of course read too much about all of this with my obsessive infertile brain. I’ve seen three fertility docs, and all of them look at AMH, FSH, antral follicle count, age, and history all together. No one data point gives enough info for a diagnosis. And then…

That article made me mad because they don’t even mention that age is a separate variable that effects egg quality. So even if you have lots of eggs, as you age, fewer will be genetically viable. A 30 year old with an AMH of 1 has a much better chance of success conceiving than a 40 year old with an AMH of 1. AMH can…

For me, yes I carry my shoes to the doorway then put them on. I also wipe my dog’s feet off each time we come inside.

This is, frankly, bullshit. They are professionals, it’s their job to have the skills to make up all ethnicities walking the runway. It’s not like she’s calling a random white person racist for not knowing how to do makeup for dark skin. These are pros who can know in advance who is walking and they don’t think they…

I commented much the same before reading this. Laïcité in practice means secular cultural Catholicism.

Everything you’ve said here is great and true. As someone who worked in French schools, I think it’s also important to point out how French laïcité is a very culturally catholic form of secularism. They have tons of school holidays for lesser catholic holy days that I, as an American Christian, had never heard of. So…

Depends on how well the various guests know each other. You just gotta find the right kind of white people who will be too worried about seeming racist to question you. Liberal enough, and you can have your tri tip.

That’s disturbing. Your doctor should be checking your lung and heart sounds herself when you have a check-up. In-patient nurses do a lot of that stuff more often than doctors, but I’ve never had a doctor not do a thorough physical at an annual check-up.

I feel so bad to be that guy, but you mean word choice not syntax.

“I’m not like other popes, I’m a chill pope”

This is so not my experience. I’ve been on the thin edge of the “healthy” BMI and slightly below it, and in the middle-to upper end as well. And when I was abnormally thin I was treated much better by most people than when I was larger but still not overweight. (I didn’t identify as fat.) We don’t prize average in…

So the pope does have issues with the bishops, at least the U.S. ones, because they like to harp on social conservatism and wouldn’t give it up when he told them to. So he is disempowering them on one of their favorite high horse issues. Butttttt that still doesn't make it shade.

That was why the medical experts objected. Her body was in no way ready for that, risk to her health and even her life was very high.

Yep. I avoided the video for the same reason I avoided the JLaw pics. It’s really not that hard to avoid if you choose to. I don't know why the consensus seems to be it's ok to watch that.

Just FYI I could never handle the pill and loved my Mirena. But my issue was mainly that estrogen makes me crazy, so the Mirena was great being progesterone only. If progesterone is what bothers you, it might not be as good, though it's still wayyyyyy less hormone than is in the pill, so you still have a good chance…

You would want to consider the Mirena, not the copper paragard. The copper iud causes heavier, more painful periods. The Mirena causes lighter periods or none at all, and is a go-to treatment for menorrhagia. Most of the risks of the pill come from the estrogen, the Mirena is progesterone only. It also is a smaller…

Also, Paragard ruined my life, causing a severe chronic pain condition. It was a rare thing, so for women it’s helps that’s great, but no method is perfect.

The hormonal IUD has fewer hormones on an order of magnitude less than the pill (so a hell of a lot less.) It also is progesterone only, Yoga Nerd MD can correct my on this, but I believe much of the risk comes from the estrogen in pills (I know the clotting risk does, I think the others do as well.) Women at higher…

ugh that’s stupid. I get a tall coffee in a grande cup if I want both room for milk and room so I can walk without spilling it. Now I have to worry that they think I’m a douche just trying to get extra.

I was thinking more, taking on a second child is a lot more work, so considering that she finally decided to cut out a man she already wouldn’t leave her first child with, as she would have less time than ever to spend with him away from her kids.