I actually kind of love corsets and such that just smooth the ladies in place and hold them there. That looks awesome to me.

Wow, you really nailed it! No one can have any trauma other than that from fighting in wars! Assault, abuse—-nothing like that. Us little womenz can only get sad when there are no more pumpkin lattes. BTW—I'm pretty sure you mean pumpkin spice lattes, not just pumpkin lattes. No one has PTSD over pumpkin lattes.

Mine looks pretty sunny just the now. I'm so sorry about what you've been through.

Oh my god. That is so so horrible. Terrible! I broke my back (non-baby related) and had to have fusion, but lucked out on the no paralysis piece. Did the surgery help with the nerve damage? Can you walk now, or are you in a chair?

Totally complication/pain free planned C-section here! All was good! I usually don't post much about it because it seems like I'm bragging—but not all of them are horror stories.

Preach it, sister!!!!

I had a planned c-section and it was not bad at all! Way better than the poor ladies who want/try vaginal and then have to have an emergency one. That's a whole other deal. :(

That is...just so not ok. I would be seriously ill if they'd done that to me. blurghgh

Hey—-I had a planned C-section, and for what it's worth the recovery really isn't so bad! The women who tried to have a vaginal birth and then had to have a C-section have it the worst off, as they are really recovering from both at the same time. Just a C-section was not bad!

I'm somewhat terrified to keep reading in case anything gets worse than this! How awful!

Are you another Alpha Delt?!?!!?

I was dubious about that idea as well—but the cool group on Wesleyan's campus when I was there, the one that threw poetry readings and fun themed parties that weren't all about getting sloshed was...Alpha Delta Phi, which had greek letters. Greek letters does not automatically mean Animal House.

When I was there (Class of '00) there were no sororities with houses—I think there was one or two, but they were organizations that did not have buildings. I was a member of an already co-ed Greek society, which was much more for theater dorks, artists, and film majors than any sort of "rape factory." The Greek Life…

But you are trying to tell people what to do—just because you're happy and promoting the status quo doesn't mean you aren't going out of your way to tell people what to do. You have typed a lot about this—which shows you are willing. If people wanting to change a name for a sports team makes you so defensive, I don't…

Kraut isn't the same league—Nazi would be closer, and is somewhat linked to the sort of brutal genocide redskin is—but going the other way. No one has committed genocide against the Germans by deeming them inferior to "real humans," and no one has take. German land on that theory since Ancient Rome, so it's not really…

Ain't no rage and adrenaline like a pregnant woman's rage and adrenaline. Like a boss.

Gosh darn it, it ain't fair if my parents got to whoop me and I have to be a bigger person and some shot and parent out of thought and reason rather than fear and anger!

he sounds funny at least!

I did almost the same thing! He actually showed me the tatts and explained they were from when he was a skinhead at 14 (many years before) but left their group after they beat him up for being sexually assaulted by a guy.

This is shocking. Chest tattoos normally work out so well!