Maine is low on the get-me-out end, but having been raised there, it's not that great. Much of the state is simply so insulated by distance (and trees) that it's impossible to imagine living elsewhere.

None of these things were news to me. Perhaps I'm in a circle of friends that talks about breastfeeding a lot. One more worth mentioning (please!) is that some women simply cannot biologically breast feed, for no reason that can be diagnosed. There's just nothing in there. THAT piece of news was the big shocker to…

I used Paragard for two years after my first was born (I was NOT getting on hormones again). It did increase the length and intensity of my periods (less than ideal) but in every other way it was perfect.

It's reassuring that I'm not the only one with permanent side effects. I did try a few different ones, and the last one dried out my eyes to where I couldn't wear contact lenses anymore. It's been six years and my eyes are still too dry. Fortunately, that was the only long-term side effect for me.

Better sex? Really? Nothing killed my libido like the Pill.

On my first movie date with a prior boyfriend, he answered his cell while driving to the theater ("Oh, hey, no, not doing much, you?") and then proceeded to annoy everyone checking texts on his brightly-lit screen during the film. Yeah, that didn't last.

For more on this, try Brian Wansink's book "Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think". He covers this topic in more detail and discusses interesting psychological experiments with food, too!