I don't really know any coupled people my age who actually do anything for valentine's day, but maybe we're all curmudgeons. I've never celebrated it, and have been in relationships for probably all but 1 of the last 15 v-days. I make it clear I don't want to and I tend to only be in relationships with men who feel…

I may be sold on those pacifiers (if we use them) just for the Snorks reference! Thanks!

Is the Sleep Sheep good? I saw it in the store the other day, but had been planning on just using the white noise app on my phone since I've also taken to sleeping with it on (how I lived three decades of my life sleeping horribly and NEVER trying something like white noise until I was pregnant is beyond me). Do you…

Oh yeah, we're doing cloth everything, and making almost all of it other than the diapers (change pads, wipes, burp cloths, Moby, etc). I'm actually in my third trimester, so I did already buy some maternity stuff including a winter coat. I love my maternity winter coat, though, and bought it before I was showing at…

Okay, voices of experience, does anyone want to help me with a list of must haves for my forthcoming baby? We're trying to really, really minimize the amount of stuff we get. (I know that eventually this will prove futile, but we're trying.) So I'm really looking for suggestions as to the things that you felt were…

To echo what everyone else said, it depends on the individual pittie. We had multiple cats before we got our pit and the cats' reactions ranged from immediate hatred to ignoring her. Over the last year, everyone has integrated to various degrees. It helped that our pit had some sort of instinct to let the cats come to…

When I was about her age, I got bullied for being smart. When I finally broke down, the principal of my school crouched down next to me and said, in a very kind voice, "Have you ever thought about just pretending you're not as smart as you are?" I am really thankful to my parents that the way they raised me led to me,…

I used a free app for this (it's called Free Menstrual Calendar) and recall that there were a tonne of other free options but this one was the least flowery looking. I got pregnant on the 2nd month we were trying, but I don't know if that's particularly thanks to the app.

Wow. I honestly thought you were joking. I give tabloids too much credit, clearly.

It's super weird that I remember this, but I believe Tracie also posted about having inverted nipples in the past. On my first meeting with my midwife, the first question she asked after she asked if I was planning on breastfeeding was whether or not my nipples were inverted and explained that, though not impossible,…

I stopped reading after that sentence because it was too funny.

I think people are just twin obsessed. I think nearly everyone I've talked to about my pregnancy has asked if it's twins. (And it's not like I have a giant pregnant belly at all.)

I didn't read the "don't journal" study, but when I went through my divorce what I did find incredibly helpful because I was dwelling on everything was to, instead, journal about what had improved in my life since the break up. Sometimes the entries were incredibly lame (I can organize the closet the way I want!) and…

I think they do it all over the place. Here's a link about it going on this week at U Vic, too: http://www.vicnews.com/news/181285731.html

I'll echo what everyone else has said about it being a very individual thing. One of my best friends is adopted, as is her sister, and neither of them have any inkling to try to find their biological parents. The sum of what my friend knows about her biological parents is their races, their rough ages, and the (very…

This kind of made me laugh because my husband and I are both such awful Facebook users that the sum of our page is one photo (not of us) that I tagged both of us on a few years ago.

Add me to the chorus of people who feel the same way. I'm kind of afraid to watch it as an adult because I have SUCH fond memories of it and still sing the songs.

I hope you weren't left feeling badly. I think that part of it — this is true for me, anyway — is that many of us have faced similar challenges and made similar mistakes and are trying to help. I understand that it's difficult, particularly when you like someone but are in a weird place where you're not entirely sure…

Understandable! I honestly don't think this is something you need to have a big talk about. At most, it's "I don't want to get pregnant, so I want to start using condoms." If he tries to pressure you he's not only not worth sleeping with, he's also not worth being your best guy friend. I hope, though, that he's happy…

Maybe I'm misunderstanding, but I'm not sure how using birth control (I'm assuming you mean condoms) would make him think you're a couple. If anything, not using birth control seems like more of a couple thing. Anyway, to answer your question, I think you can just pull out a condom next time you start fooling around.…