My niece is a chunker and totally adorable. I was born (2 weeks late) with a freaking thigh gap. I do not have high hopes that the one I'm cooking will be a fat baby :(

Well pink elephants symbolize delirium tremens which would probably be my state if I had to go to CPAC!

I would try to seek out a pelvic pain specialist if you are in a major metropolitan/academic health system area. If your doctor is stumped, you can try seeing a pelvic physical therapist. Most obgyns are horrible at treating pelvic pain. (I have been dealing with chronic pelvic pain from endometriosis and pelvic…

Migraines don’t actually need those other symptoms to be migraines. Severe and one-sided are the basic criteria.

Does heat help at all? If so, look into infrared heat lamps used in traditional chinese medicine. The heat penetrates so much better than a heating pad it is SO MUCH BETTER! It’s like a heating pad times 100. I think mine was around $200. My husband bogarts it for his sore back as well.

I actually follow her on Instagram, I think she’s the only celeb I follow, it’s not my usual scene. But the great majority of what she posts is lighthearted and positive. That just doesn’t make it to dirtbag. I’ve seen the kardashians go after their critics on dirtbag more than i’ve seen Chrissy do it following her…

It’s an “Indian.” They are neighborhood clubs that perform at Mardi Gras and a couple other times with their own distinctive music genre. It’s a distinctly black New Orleans tradition and the tribes haven’t always been looked on fondly by the city/police, so there’s a bit of resistance in there, too.

They built it, moved in, then decided to totally re-do it and moved out again about two years later. Totally sane.

I have a cousin who finally got diagnosed bipolar in his late 30s. It was a combo of him being from a culture that sees very little grey area between sanity and insanity, and him being so rich from family money that he could spend a shit ton of money in his manic phases without any consequences.

I get your point but to be fair, those quads are statistically near-impossible for IVF, too! Those were two embryos, so they normally would have been fraternal twins. Having both split is insane.

But that happens in a natural cycle, most fertilized embryos don’t implant. Some people transfer embryos when they can’t implant, which is equivalent to tossing them. But others do low-stim or mini-IVF protocols and commit to doing a good transfer for all the embryos they make. And plenty of women do IVF because they…

Chikungunya and zika (and dengue) are carried by the same species of mosquito. They prefer to bite humans and unlike the malaria mosquito, they bite during the day so it’s a lot harder to prevent bites. This is so horrid.

But wondfo tests on Amazon. Super cheap and accurate. You get like 50 for $20

The good parts. Stomach and upper arms, I'm guessing.

Thanks so much!

Do you mind adding me? I have posting privileges on groupthink but never made it out of the frets on the main page.

Hadn't thought of that. It’s an appropriate response either way!

Can’t speak for OP, but I’m not bothered when any individual friend changes her last name. I am bothered that that norm is still so strong that other options aren’t common and accepted enough to be real options for many people. And many societal systems are still set up only for the shared last name. I just want other…

But I think the fact that she wasn’t arsed to do the paperwork and that she thought giving you her last name made sense just to avoid confusion IS radical.

Right? That argument is so obviously flawed. Because no one says that to men, “it’s just your dad’s name.” And then when women get divorced they get shit about changing their name back because people see the married name as no longer hers. Basically by that reasoning, women never really have ownership of their name.