Or, as I am old, Safeway.

Peanut butter, roti bread with satay (and a whole lot of other delicious Thai food), snickers, chocolate covered peanuts, peanut butter ice cream... so good.

She’s the same. She was diagnosed as anaphylactic at peanuts 2 years old (along with 6 other anaphylactic allergies), so has no memory of what peanuts taste like and doesn’t care that she can’t have them. Luckily we haven’t had anyone underestimate the reaction or forget it. Her childcare made sure they never cooked…

Which is why my kid is allergic to peanuts, lentils and kidney beans. Same proteins apparently. She has cashew butter instead of peanut butter. I feel bad for her because some of the best foods have peanuts. 

They’re probably the same people who stand up as soon as the seatbelt light goes off at the end of a flight.

Exactly. 

Wow. Jeez. Actually the whole ‘naturopathic doctor’/chiro as primary care thing horrifies me as well. 

Urgh great 🙄

But of course.

I also live somewhere where all my antenatal care, hospital birth and postnatal care is covered by the government. I can’t imagine the stress of not having this!

And if she had attended antenatal care, she would know the basics at least of what not to ignore. 

Yes. And this is a little off topic, but I keep seeing previews for that new Jennifer Lopez movie where she thinks her experience working in retail is equal to like a masters degree. Every time I see it and I’m like ‘argh anti-intellectualism make it stop!’.

That’s horrifying. Why aren’t they regulated? In Australia all midwives are registered with state boards and regulated by the national authority (Australian Health Practitioners Regulation Authority) just like Nurses, doctors, physiotherapists, dentists etc. And midwives here have either completed a bachelor of nursing…

I thought I’d maybe have a little gas and air or a bath if things got hard during labour. Turns out a better idea for me was panadeine forte, pethidine and an epidural. I left the gas and air til it was time for the suturing.

I was born at home, back in the early 80s, with an obstetrician and midwife present. My sister was was also born at home, with two midwives present. My mum had two low risk pregnancies, regular antenatal care and lived close to major public hospitals. Nothing went wrong in either birth, but as an RN I could never ever…

I was smacked several times as a kid. When I grew up I didn’t know what I thought about it until I had a kid of my own and realised I could never ever hurt her. Raising kids can be really challenging (and frustrating and even enraging at times) and people need to be equipped with knowledge and strategies. The Circle…

Not most us of. 

Urgh exactly. The only way she attempts to be funny is by pointing out her fatness. One trick pony. 

Yeah same here. Palliative nursing however pays the same as any other hospital nursing position. It’s more the mortician/funeral celebrant side I was interested in.

occupational health and safety.