I remember playing some sort of football/basketball hybrid game in gym, and most of the girls didn't know how to throw a football. Because no one ever taught them. And the boys taunted them (even our jackass teacher).

I need a trainer like that. The last trainer I had, I asked specifically for a free weight program and he had me doing cardio.

I think s/he is being sarcastic because they don't understand cultural messages that say "women should take a self-defense class to protect themselves against men" and having a martial arts/self-defense class available if any woman wants to take it for whatever reason (which isn't always self-defense).

I remember the first time I sparred! It was nerve wracking. That moment when you realize, "Hey, getting hurt isn't the worst thing..." is like having a religious epiphany (or at least it was for me!)

Blargh. When I moved back in with my parents for a few months after my son was born, my brother would complain about me "just whipping them out" to feed my baby. Except by "whipping them out" he mean "sitting there with a baby on the boob" because I'd always cover up when I latched but let the cover drop while the…

Meh, it depends. If she was waiting at the DMV for her number to be called I'd be afraid to walk off too. Plus Not all bathrooms have changing tables and changing on a public restroom floor is disgusting. If it's just a wet diaper I'd do it, although ideally I'd go out to the car. Poopy diapers are a different story.

A very very small amount of caffeine can transmit through the breastmilk, but if you time it right you can minimize it. Drinking coffee during a feeding is actually ideal because it won't pass to the breastmilk that quickly and will probably have passed by the next feeding.

The copper IUD makes the cramps worse but the Mirena makes your period disappear altogether.

I got the same spiel from my first OB/GYN about how if you haven't had a kid it would be painful and difficult and that I should do something else. I finally went to Planned Parenthood and they agreed to it, BUT I was already pregnant by then (on the NuvaRing that my old gyno had pushed as an alternative). So imagine…

I had a kid, but delivered via C-section, and my ob/gyn said that it's actually the delivery moreso than the pregnancy that helps. So I got to go through the same degree of pain the second time. BLARGH.

Merck has a payment plan option for the Mirena (through CVS Caremark). Just FYI! The IUD itself was a little under $400 and the insertion didn't cost any more than the average doctor visit.

I had this experience, too. First gyno flat-out refused (I was 18 at the time) and the second steered me away from it. Both put my on the NuvaRing instead which was uncomfortable, would not stay in place, gave me yeast infections, and overall I just hated. I finally got sick of it and went to Planned Parenthood with…

I had my first one for like nine months (long story - was pregnant at the insertion, too early for test to detect, and now I have a toddler) and when I got another one right after the LO was born, I had no issues with my insurance company.

I actually knew a woman named Kevin! She was a PIO somewhere. I misgendered her in an email and when I apologized she replied with "It's OK - who names their daughter Kevin?!?!"

EXACTLY. "Well Lord knows my kid's gotten into his share of shit on my watch so I can't really criticize, right?"

When my son was young and I was kind of naive, I went back to work part-time and chose an in-home provider - a SAHM with her own daughter my son's age and a couple other kids she watched for the day. She used to be a nanny and it was only a couple days a week so no biggie. Plus it was cheap and at the time we were…

Exactly. FUCK this fucking woman.

So? Again, it's not "Things GP Made Me Fuck Up."

Then you're reeeeeeally not very good at reading comprehension.

I ran up until my third trimester. It did get kind of uncomfortable near the end - my stomach muscles were constantly strained holding up my belly anyway, so jostling it around was not fun. But maybe a sprint would have been OK?