The local Catholic hospitals are more likely to encourage doulas or birth coaches, who lower the rate of interventions, including C-sections.

I think it's high time we got scratch and sniff online dating profiles.

OMG, smell! There's a lot of research being done showing that people are most attracted to people who smell the most different from them because it means they're less likely to be related. I love weird science.

Not necessarily. Many hospitals named after saints are affiliated with the Episcopal Church or other mainline protestant churches, which don't have the crazy hangup on abortion and birth control the Catholics do.

See the real pill, not the crappy mini-pill I'm on, kept me from getting sore. Different hormones for different folks, I guess.

A Mirena tends to shorten your periods. The copper one lengthens them. Yea hormones?

My problem isn't my crotch, although I cramp horribly. It's that my boobs are so sore they don't even like it when all I wear over them is a too big sweatshirt. Having them touched is just beyond painful.

In most states, if someone has been involuntarily admitted to a mental health facility by the courts, the state, usually a psychiatrist contracted by health and welfare, decides whether or not the person should be released, not the facility.

Babies' hearts beat significantly faster than adults, as everybody else here has said.

That looks way more comfortable than my Enell, which is like wearing a turtleneck bra, I swear.

This chick with I cups. I cannot type this morning.

The Enell or is there another awesome sports bra this with chick with I cups needs to know about?

Before. She's always done strange things fashionwise. I always figured it was so people wouldn't comment on how insanely beautiful she was when she walked down the street.

Oh, I have cramps, I have pains when I ovulate, and I've got PMDD. I usually just use a vibe because I usually hurt bad enough that I want nobody else to touch me.

I want to play the Star Wars RPG so bad, but between playing D&D one night a week, DMing another, school, work, and male friend, I just don't have time.

Gnomes are pretty much leprechauns in D&D.

+10,000,000

My NP is willing to do it. She's just concerned about the family history of ectopic pregnancies as far as I'm concerned. Other women I know who see her and don't have babies have gotten them from her. She's really awesome. My body is just weird.

Yea, they're really different. One has hormones and one doesn't.

Ha! I was going to ask her about that next time I go in because it seems like it might be a good choice for me. It's not systemic and it has a success rate up there with the pill.