Holy shit, I’m so sorry. I had a missed miscarriage 4 years ago and wouldn’t wish that gut-wrenching nightmare on anyone (and I wasn’t dealing with a sibling with a cancer diagnosis at the same time). Take care of yourself (even if that means pulling the covers over your head and not getting out of bed for a week).

Don’t refrain from peeing after sex, even when TTC! The last thing you need right now is a UTI interfering with things. It’s fine to lie still for a few min or so, but definitely get up and pee after that. Sperm are FAST (at least the good ones are) and only need a couple of minutes to get through your cervix, so…

“I guess when they put out blimps to make me feel unwelcome, no reason for me to go to London,” Trump told The Sun. “I used to love London as a city. I haven’t been there in a long time. But when they make you feel unwelcome, why would I stay there?”

Yeah, I’m almost 39 and it’s likely been in my body for at least a decade, hence my concern.  I was negative for 16 and 18 but positive for “one of the other high risk types.” But I’ve also never had an abnormal pap, so for now I just have to get them every year instead of every 5. 

Interesting. Clearly my previous doctors were not engaging in best practices, then! 

Apparently it can lie dormant for decades, which is scary. And since most doctors don’t test for it unless you have an abnormal pap or specifically ask, most women don’t even know they have it. 

CA must have more funding for that kind of thing. In WI (or at least in Dane County), almost everything gets screened out.  Sometimes I get the “your report has been screened out” follow up letter so fast, I swear they had it printed and in the mail before the phone call was even over.  

Well, interestingly, I just tested positive last week. My husband and I have been together (and monogamous) for 11 years so needless to say I was a little shocked. I’ve never had an abnormal pap, but am currently pregnant and my new doctor screens for HPV as part of the standard blood workup. She told me it’s not as…

I really don’t know- we have tried complaining to supervisors (all the way up to the head of Human Services) but they always back the workers. There have been a few high profile cases in the news in the last decade that made them look pretty negligent, but that didn’t really do much to change anything.

I know- I was agreeing with you.

Ughhh I’m 12 weeks pregnant with kid #2 and already DREADING pumping. 

Our new principal uses light blue comic sans on all of her emails. So, of course we’re all regarding her as a serious professional *eye roll*

please please please show us a picture!

The photos of her in red look nothing like her- not even close! The ones after they land look enough like her that I believe it probably is her, but she has definitely had some work done. 

And sadly, even when parents DO call CPS, the call gets screened out and nothing is ever done. I’m a social worker and have made countless reports of sexual abuse with credible information, and CPS decides it’s not worth following up on. My colleagues and I even made several reports about a girl we suspected was being…

I got promoted in April and found out 2 weeks later I’m pregnant (luckily I’d already signed the contract). But I haven’t told my boss yet (she also just got promoted- her into a higher role, me into her previous role) because she is NOT going to take the news well. And she was already pretty hostile when I had my…

Quite a few states have similar laws. In Wisconsin, for example, power can’t be shut off between Nov 1 and April 1 (though customers can keep wracking up debt during that time so they get hit with an even bigger bill in April). I’m not positive if it is the law that they can’t shut off power for people with medical…

Another article I read said that he was sitting at the edge of the pool with his feet in the water while watching their god-children swim. So technically he had socks on in the pool, but he wasn’t actually swimming with socks on, and even if he was, it’s certainly not something to call the police over. 

1. Sometimes fertile cervical mucus just shows up suddenly out of nowhere and usually coincides with a positive ovulation test. So you could have none in the morning and then suddenly tons a couple of hours later. Staying well hydrated helps too.

He may have had a life insurance policy, but most policies don’t pay out anything in the case of suicide.