THIS SO MUCH. I didn't have any sort of negative behavioral history to refer to so it got attributed to "emotional issues caused by my mother" (I was raised, at the latter end, by my father, and yes, I do have emotional issues caused by my mother. But not in this context). Everything is about him, all the time,…

On the one hand, it's a great start. But it also provides those who work for the government better protections than the vast number of people who don't. Mandate this for EVERYONE.

I think I must have been one of the lucky ones. In my teens, cystic acne all over the t-zone, back, and occasionally my rear end, to boot. After college, combo skin, but a decent complexion and just the occasional pimple (with a head! After years getting them without it was a bit of a novelty). And now dry skin in…

I didn't have reason to expect that I would; my mother never outgrew it. Imagine my surprise!

My doctor never discussed alternatives with me. I was on tetracycline for about six years before my cystic acne somehow lost its will to live and went away. We were uninsured and the $5 a month it cost had appeal. It was the mid-90's, and antibiotic resistance wasn't much of a concern :-/

What's this going to do to your metabolism in the long run, though? Say you hit goal weight and go off this stuff. What then?

And haven't extensively remodeled your vagina via multiple traumatic large-baby births. *sigh* Same is also true for tampons, unfortunately.

When I would use the onomatopoetic "poof!" while overseas, my German-speaking friends would always giggle at me until one was kind enough to explain that Pouf is slang for a whorehouse.

So what's it going to take to make a vagina canoe part of the tradition, too?

Not in the film version.

When I was home from University for Christmas, my father made a huuuuuge deal about opening just one present on Christmas Eve. He was so excited, couldn't wait, etc. So I was pretty optimistic, especially since things were tight for me in the dorm and I didn't have a lot of luxuries. He took a long, thin envelope…

Tried that one first. A heavy 12-day period every month for two years convinced me to switch to Mirena after having another (planned) baby.

My state permits religious exemption from vaccines to enter public schools, but not philosophical exemption. The thing is, sometimes the line is murky and anyone wanting to get out of vaccinating for ideological reasons just claims a religious exemption. Because of civil liberties, no one can demand that they…

Indeed. Seriously, I may have to break something if I see one more claim like "whooping cough is no big deal. All of my kids had it and I treated it with garlic oil." And I'm not even kidding.

Project blog here! http://pioneergirlproject.org/ Have been following obsessively for some time.

This is of mild concern to me- my husband and I currently have two littles, one income, and a very modest budget. We have a tiny house and couldn't afford to upgrade to accommodate an aging parent, and we do without so many things ourselves (A/C except on the very hottest days, cable television, smartphones,…

Collectively, how many people do these organizations employ? I don't suppose it's possible to know how many women.

Also, totally bring it up now! They can insert it immediately after childbirth but they have to know you want it. Narrow window!

I had ParaGard for 2 years; the most annoying side effect was the fact that it can definitely increase the heaviness and length of your periods. Otherwise, it's supposed to be reasonably side-effect free. I know that within six months most women go back to their regular flow, but I didn't :-/ It was still worth it.

You're not tied to the maximum effective timeframe, though- I had mine in after the birth of my first, removed it two years later to conceive my second. It comes out anytime, and reasonably quickly!