I think most of us here feel the same way you do. It is backwards AND scream-worthy. It's absolutely insanity-making.

I'm only sad you didn't pull down your pants right there.

Pretty much all well-known Christian Conservatives in the US are the spiritual successors of the pharisees. The way the Bible describes them as self-aggrandizing, vainglorious, disdainful of the poor and oppressed, and generally flaunting wealth is on the nose. I mean shit, they believed the fact that they were rich…

Good point.

Beautifully stated. I feel like it's a great answer to everyone who wants lifelong bullied folks to just shut up and take it so the bullies will go away - the point being that they never do.

Yeah, she's no peach, that's for sure. I think she's a better parent than Jenelle by a hair's breadth if only because she's not smoking weed and begging money off people to bail her deadbeat sorta-boyfriend out of jail.

Fortunately, Barbara has custody at the moment. At least she did last time I saw the show.

I thought that was naturopathy, which is a lot less "out there". Fenugreek is recommended by doctors to increase milk supply, in fact, as is oatmeal.

I've never miscarried but I did deal with a few years of infertility, and yes, I think many people experience feeling like they're less of a woman. At least in my experience, we go through life all assuming that we'll be able to conceive and have plenty of babies if we want to, because no one TALKS about…

I'm pregnant (due next month), and literally the only place I look fatter is my big baby belly. Everything else actually looks thinner these days. It very much depends on body type, genetics, etc.

Lol, yes, nice not to gain weight on top of everything else. I've actually lost a bit (probably because my hormones aren't all fucked up for once). Thanks for sharing your experience. Mr. Water promised to take two weeks off if I end up with a C-section, so I don't think recovery would be too horrid, knock on wood.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Honestly, while I find the c-section recovery possibilities daunting, I've heard just as many stories about horrible tears during vaginal birth. You really just never know - I'm starting to feel like birth is so individualized that you simply can't know what's ideal until you've…

Good to know - all of that, I mean. I've been looking up poses/positions to try and there seem to be a lot, so I'm going to try all of'em and just see what happens. Thank you for the links!

Thank you so much for the link! I remember someone mentioning it to me before, but I'd forgotten all about it.

Have you tried going to one of those "professional beauty stores" like Sally's Beauty Supply? Most of them stock a brand called Wella which is simply AMAZING. My salon actually uses that as their dye. The color holds and doesn't wreck my hair, and it looks a little less like something out of a drugstore box. If you go…

So I have been talking about EVERYONE with this, but you Jezzie ladies have so much collective experience that I always end up coming here for the big stuff.

A bunch of overly-worried questions about breech babies in the reply.

I think therapy works BEST when you are very self-aware/self-analytical, because you're already ready to work and aware of many of your issues when you go see someone. I am very self-analytical, but going to a psychologist revealed a few things that I hadn't even considered and helped me to work through them instead…

No kidding. That was my exact thought. "What rapist gives a fuck whether or not their victim needs Plan B?"

Yes! I bought three giant boxes of OBs just before getting knocked up, sad. Now I'm going to have something to do this afternoon...