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  • I think this may be the first time in the history of The Bump, that all of the Tri-boards, month boards and TTCing boards have come together to unanimously laugh and cry at the same time at this sad girl, her attention whoring blog and crazy thinking. 

     Don't for a second think this isn't exactly what she wanted.  

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    I think this may be the first time in the history of The Bump, that all of the Tri-boards, month boards and TTCing boards have come together to unanimously laugh and cry at the same time at this sad girl, her attention whoring blog and crazy thinking. 

     Don't for a second think this isn't exactly what she wanted.  

    Yes 

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  • imageTAOMAB:
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    Good try, but wrong. 

    Gender is socially constructed, not biological. The rules for "gender" differ from culture to culture, with no respect to biology.

    Maternal anxiety does not cause homosexuality. If it did I'm pretty sure that there would be more homosexuals than straight people in society and we'd be experiencing a population decline rather than an increase. 

    You should check your sources, just because it's on the internet doesn't make it real sweet heart. 

    And you can call me what ever you like.



    Look, I am only going off of what I've read over the years, and NOT on the internet, thank you very much.

    Gender is socially constructed? Are you crazy? Maybe you misunderstanding the terms.  Sex is the genitalia, gender is the mental understanding of its own sex. I am not talking about gender RULES. I am talking about how our BRAIN perceives gender. Boys aren't boys because society expects them to be boys. They are wired differently, they behave differently, their brain is VERY different from girls. That's what gender is.
    So when you take an external stressor, be it stress hormones, or environmental toxins, and apply it AT THE RIGHT MOMENT and CONTINIOUSLY ( that's why we're all not gay- obviously pregnancy is stressful), you might get a disassociation happening.
    Is what I am saying really so hard to believe? Does it make sense at all that it could happen? So if it could, doesn't it make sense to reduce those stressors to a minimum during pregnancy as long as there's a way to do it?

    The study that I am referring to, exposed pregnant rats to stressors, measured the amount of cortisol released, and then found out that 60% ( i think that was the number) of those rats' pups exhibited homosecual behavior. And I know you're going to go crazy over the rats are not people thing, but we all work the same, hormones work the same, we develop the same way, and one can only study animals not humans, so that's all we have to go off of. And I'd rather be careful than not.

    And I don't call people names, it doesn't make me feel better putting other people down, so I'll pass.

    P.S. Doesn't it feel better to discuss things normally without ridicule?

    Okay, I need to come off the sidelines. This is a board I haven't been on in months. I had my baby almost 5 months ago and with all the bullsh!t stress that I had to put up with while I was pregnant, your 'flawed' study is telling me my son will now be flaming gay. That is also a huge insult to the gay people living in our society that have to be inundated with crackpot studies to try to put their 'gayness' in terms that homophobes can accept by trying to justify the thinking that homosexuality is 'preventable'.

    First off, learn to spell and second, find another planet to live on because there is no such thing as being stress free in anything anyone does in day-to-day life. If you're obsessed about stress making your unborn child gay, then you've got bigger problems.

    One last thing, put away the books, sister, 'cause Dr. Spock is dead!

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    Ok, while I definitely think that OP is cray cray, I think this is what she is referring to: https://books.google.com/books?id=atfTHGjjVeIC&lpg=PA155&ots=D9bOOhmM38&dq=maternal%20stress%20sexually%20dimorphic%20nucleus&pg=PA155#v=onepage&q&f=false

    This book cites a number of studies looking at maternal stress and homosexuality of the offspring.  Read the next couple pages up through the Prenatal Stress Hypothesis and Human Sexual Orientation...it is pretty interesting, but most of these studies are quite old.  Not sure why there hasn't been much follow up.  We learned about this in one of my Psych classes in college.

    OP, you are sort of misunderstanding the research, though.  The researchers scared the sh!t out of those rats.  The study with people used a sample from Germany during WWII, when people actually thought they might be killed and lived in constant fear.  We're not talking about your stressful job or annoying inlaws FFS.

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    OP, you are a funny girl.

  • So is it safe to say you will be avoiding queso during this pregnancy?
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    imageLolliM:
    So is it safe to say you will be avoiding queso during this pregnancy?

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    And pineapple?

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    imageLolliM:
    So is it safe to say you will be avoiding queso during this pregnancy?

    Big Smile

    And pineapple?

    Oh and don't forget the luncheon meat, the sushi, and hell caffeine may cause her child to be a homosexual!
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  • OP you are a nut job....plain and simple
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  • imageLolliM:
    imageaesf:

    imageLolliM:
    So is it safe to say you will be avoiding queso during this pregnancy?

    Big Smile

    And pineapple?

    Oh and don't forget the luncheon meat, the sushi, and hell caffeine may cause her child to be a homosexual!

    I am sure she will stay away from Soft Serve too....wacko

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    Ummm, actually you're wrong.  Every twin pregnancy is high risk.  Maybe you're the one who should do some research.  But this isn't a thread about twin pregnancies.  I came here because I heard OP was BSC.  

    Yep, she is. 

    no. they're not. Maybe YOUR ob considers all twins to be high risk, but that most certainly is not the case everywhere. Is there a higher chance that your pregnancy will become high risk? Absolutely. Does a twin pg automatically equal high risk? no, it doesn't.

    I have 3 friends who had home water births with their twins. I have 3 others who did have high risk pregnancies with their twins...but their twins were not the only cause. I know others that had their babies in hospitals without being considered high risk at all as well. 

    *sigh*

    If any woman is expecting multiples and her OB isn't experienced in multiple births and doesn't refer her to a perinatologist/MFM, then she needs to run for the hills.

    From babycenter:  While the great majority of multiple pregnancies result in healthy babies, any pregnancy with twins or more is considered high risk. And the more babies you're carrying, the higher your risk of complications. 

    A woman carrying more than one babyimage is automatically considered to have a high risk pregnancy, and is at increased risk for pre-term labor. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported in 1996 that the optimum gestation for multiple births was 37 to 38 weeks, though with more than two, birth is likely to occur much earlier.

    This, from Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway: Twins are a joy but remember their pregnancies are high risk. If you are pregnant with twins and no one has recommended you to see a high-risk specialist, make some noise . . . loudly. Remember, a healthy pregnancy doesn?t just happen. It takes a smart mother who knows what to do.

    From UCSF Medical Center, where multiples are also treated as high-risk:  Women carrying multiples have a higher chance of developing complications, such as high blood pressure and preterm labor. We schedule more frequent prenatal visits so we can watch for early signs of complications. 

     

    Those are just some examples.  Head to the multiples board and ask them about high-risk pregnancies.  I'm pretty sure most of their ObGyns also considered them high risk and referred them to a specialist as well.  Anyone who is pregnant with twins or more and doesn't receive special care is putting themselves and their babies at risk.

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  • imageMrsGo4Hockeychick:
    imageveronicacorningstone:

    Ummm, actually you're wrong.  Every twin pregnancy is high risk.  Maybe you're the one who should do some research.  But this isn't a thread about twin pregnancies.  I came here because I heard OP was BSC.  

    Yep, she is. 

    no. they're not. Maybe YOUR ob considers all twins to be high risk, but that most certainly is not the case everywhere. Is there a higher chance that your pregnancy will become high risk? Absolutely. Does a twin pg automatically equal high risk? no, it doesn't.

    I have 3 friends who had home water births with their twins. I have 3 others who did have high risk pregnancies with their twins...but their twins were not the only cause. I know others that had their babies in hospitals without being considered high risk at all as well. 

    *sigh*

    If any woman is expecting multiples and her OB isn't experienced in multiple births and doesn't refer her to a perinatologist/MFM, then she needs to run for the hills.

    From babycenter:  While the great majority of multiple pregnancies result in healthy babies, any pregnancy with twins or more is considered high risk. And the more babies you're carrying, the higher your risk of complications. 

    A woman carrying more than one babyimage is automatically considered to have a high risk pregnancy, and is at increased risk for pre-term labor. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported in 1996 that the optimum gestation for multiple births was 37 to 38 weeks, though with more than two, birth is likely to occur much earlier.

    This, from Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway: Twins are a joy but remember their pregnancies are high risk. If you are pregnant with twins and no one has recommended you to see a high-risk specialist, make some noise . . . loudly. Remember, a healthy pregnancy doesn?t just happen. It takes a smart mother who knows what to do.

    From UCSF Medical Center, where multiples are also treated as high-risk:  Women carrying multiples have a higher chance of developing complications, such as high blood pressure and preterm labor. We schedule more frequent prenatal visits so we can watch for early signs of complications. 

     

    Those are just some examples.  Head to the multiples board and ask them about high-risk pregnancies.  I'm pretty sure most of their ObGyns also considered them high risk and referred them to a specialist as well.  Anyone who is pregnant with twins or more and doesn't receive special care is putting themselves and their babies at risk.

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  • imageMrsGo4Hockeychick:
    imageveronicacorningstone:

    Ummm, actually you're wrong.  Every twin pregnancy is high risk.  Maybe you're the one who should do some research.  But this isn't a thread about twin pregnancies.  I came here because I heard OP was BSC.  

    Yep, she is. 

    no. they're not. Maybe YOUR ob considers all twins to be high risk, but that most certainly is not the case everywhere. Is there a higher chance that your pregnancy will become high risk? Absolutely. Does a twin pg automatically equal high risk? no, it doesn't.

    I have 3 friends who had home water births with their twins. I have 3 others who did have high risk pregnancies with their twins...but their twins were not the only cause. I know others that had their babies in hospitals without being considered high risk at all as well. 

    *sigh*

    If any woman is expecting multiples and her OB isn't experienced in multiple births and doesn't refer her to a perinatologist/MFM, then she needs to run for the hills.

    From babycenter:  While the great majority of multiple pregnancies result in healthy babies, any pregnancy with twins or more is considered high risk. And the more babies you're carrying, the higher your risk of complications. 

    A woman carrying more than one babyimage is automatically considered to have a high risk pregnancy, and is at increased risk for pre-term labor. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported in 1996 that the optimum gestation for multiple births was 37 to 38 weeks, though with more than two, birth is likely to occur much earlier.

    This, from Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway: Twins are a joy but remember their pregnancies are high risk. If you are pregnant with twins and no one has recommended you to see a high-risk specialist, make some noise . . . loudly. Remember, a healthy pregnancy doesn?t just happen. It takes a smart mother who knows what to do.

    From UCSF Medical Center, where multiples are also treated as high-risk:  Women carrying multiples have a higher chance of developing complications, such as high blood pressure and preterm labor. We schedule more frequent prenatal visits so we can watch for early signs of complications. 

     

    Those are just some examples.  Head to the multiples board and ask them about high-risk pregnancies.  I'm pretty sure most of their ObGyns also considered them high risk and referred them to a specialist as well.  Anyone who is pregnant with twins or more and doesn't receive special care is putting themselves and their babies at risk.

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  • imageMrsGo4Hockeychick:
    imageveronicacorningstone:

    Ummm, actually you're wrong.  Every twin pregnancy is high risk.  Maybe you're the one who should do some research.  But this isn't a thread about twin pregnancies.  I came here because I heard OP was BSC.  

    Yep, she is. 

    no. they're not. Maybe YOUR ob considers all twins to be high risk, but that most certainly is not the case everywhere. Is there a higher chance that your pregnancy will become high risk? Absolutely. Does a twin pg automatically equal high risk? no, it doesn't.

    I have 3 friends who had home water births with their twins. I have 3 others who did have high risk pregnancies with their twins...but their twins were not the only cause. I know others that had their babies in hospitals without being considered high risk at all as well. 

    *sigh*

    If any woman is expecting multiples and her OB isn't experienced in multiple births and doesn't refer her to a perinatologist/MFM, then she needs to run for the hills.

    From babycenter:  While the great majority of multiple pregnancies result in healthy babies, any pregnancy with twins or more is considered high risk. And the more babies you're carrying, the higher your risk of complications. 

    A woman carrying more than one babyimage is automatically considered to have a high risk pregnancy, and is at increased risk for pre-term labor. The Journal of the American Medical Association reported in 1996 that the optimum gestation for multiple births was 37 to 38 weeks, though with more than two, birth is likely to occur much earlier.

    This, from Dr. Linda Burke-Galloway: Twins are a joy but remember their pregnancies are high risk. If you are pregnant with twins and no one has recommended you to see a high-risk specialist, make some noise . . . loudly. Remember, a healthy pregnancy doesn?t just happen. It takes a smart mother who knows what to do.

    From UCSF Medical Center, where multiples are also treated as high-risk:  Women carrying multiples have a higher chance of developing complications, such as high blood pressure and preterm labor. We schedule more frequent prenatal visits so we can watch for early signs of complications. 

     

    Those are just some examples.  Head to the multiples board and ask them about high-risk pregnancies.  I'm pretty sure most of their ObGyns also considered them high risk and referred them to a specialist as well.  Anyone who is pregnant with twins or more and doesn't receive special care is putting themselves and their babies at risk.

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  • imageLovingBaz:

    imagecaffinated_tulip:
    Maternal stress does not cause homosexuality. Homosexuality is not a mental illness you ignorant bimbo.

    For reals. If stress in pregnancy caused homosexuality pretty much everyone would be gay.

    This! 

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  • This post is full of win!

    OP, please do stay indoors your entire pregnancy and continue to blog about your theories.  I could use the laugh.

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  • Forget not going outside for 10 months, not seeing friends, thinking maternal stress at the right moment could cause homosexuality, and all of the other over the top things this poor child is worried about... I think the safest thing OP could do is not have a baby. 

    If you truly believe what you're saying OP, why bring a baby into this toxin-filled world in the first place? But wait, self-absorbed people like you LOVE to be pregnant. The whole world will revolve around you for 10 short months and you'll be busy generating millions of hits to your blog with your idiotic statements. 

    Oh, don't forget to toss your wi-fi devices in the trash and get yourself one of these: https://www.bellyarmor.com/ 


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  • I truly wish you a happy and healthy baby because if you get anything else you are not going to know how to cope.
  • imagekirky05:

    Why did you have to create this thread? Why did you have to create that blog?! Now I'm going to be stuck on the Interwebz and I should be doing dishes.

    This is too good to be true.

     

    My thinking exactly!!

    What a gem on a boring monday afternoon! I do have a question that yearns to be answered - OP, will you be celibate your entire pregnancy?? Because who knows what sex could do to your developing fetus, right?  

  • I am not reading 5 pages of posts to see if this has been addressed, but what about your "theory" on maternal stress leading to homosexuality and identical twins, one straight, one gay?  Was the mother only half stressed?   Was one baby developing on the other side of the uterus tracks?
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    imagekirky05:

    Why did you have to create this thread? Why did you have to create that blog?! Now I'm going to be stuck on the Interwebz and I should be doing dishes.

    This is too good to be true.

     

    My thinking exactly!!

    What a gem on a boring monday afternoon! I do have a question that yearns to be answered - OP, will you be celibate your entire pregnancy?? Because who knows what sex could do to your developing fetus, right?  

    Given that her husband ordered her from Russia, I don't think that's what he bargained for. He's not getting what he paid for if she stops putting out.


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  • All the research I've done points to really early positives leading to gay babies.

     

    Not that there is anything wrong with that.

    Congratulations! 

    So it goes.
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    OP, I think it's great that you want to avoid stress and be as healthy as possible for your baby. Along those lines, you might want to look into homebirth to avoid the germs in a hospital setting. Flesh-eating bacteria. Need I say more?
  • imageodear:
    I am not reading 5 pages of posts to see if this has been addressed, but what about your "theory" on maternal stress leading to homosexuality and identical twins, one straight, one gay?  Was the mother only half stressed?   Was one baby developing on the other side of the uterus tracks?

    Odear I think I love you.

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  • imageSheenaNash1:
    Lurker from TTGP here...I can't hold it in anymore! Lady, you are what is wrong with society today. You are a veiled homophobe. You claim to "have gay friends and love them to death" yet you, at every turn, compare being gay to a disease or a syndrome like ADD. It's pathetic. If you "love" gay people sooo much and think there is nothing wrong with it, why would you do everything in your power to stop your child from being gay? Not to mention your ideas of what makes people gay are completely assinine. You are the type of person who should NOT be procreating. Get a fish or a cat and call it good. You are pathetic. ::vom::

    Couldn't have said it better myself

  • So... I guess you're gonna have to give up smoking, huh? Hmm

    https://selfiemagic.com/2011/05/wordless-wednesday-4/

     

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  • imageTAOMAB:
    Ok, girls! I think I've explained the point I am trying to make. If you choose to interprete it differently, more power to you, but I have more important things to do, like construct my 9 months bubble and grow those pretty flowers you mentioned.

    Try to be calm, most of you ARE growing a human being inside of you!

    Okay I'm just lurking here....but seriously TAO - where in God's name are you getting this information?  

    I like totally doubt that you've read like millions of books and like...honestly I think you're nuts.  Not just because of what you believe in your head, but because you continue to post in attempts to back yourself up and you have no idea how ridiculous you are making yourself sound.  Please stop embarrassing yourself.  

     

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    imageSheenaNash1:
    Lurker from TTGP here...I can't hold it in anymore! Lady, you are what is wrong with society today. You are a veiled homophobe. You claim to "have gay friends and love them to death" yet you, at every turn, compare being gay to a disease or a syndrome like ADD. It's pathetic. If you "love" gay people sooo much and think there is nothing wrong with it, why would you do everything in your power to stop your child from being gay? Not to mention your ideas of what makes people gay are completely assinine. You are the type of person who should NOT be procreating. Get a fish or a cat and call it good. You are pathetic. ::vom::

    Couldn't have said it better myself

    As always Sheena I love your posts!!! 

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  • Here's a psych lesson for you OP:

     Narcissistic DSM IV Criteria

    A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

    (1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

    (2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

    (3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions

                 I mean who else has a blog dedicated to self portraits? AYKM?  

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  • imagecitycowgirl84:

    My thinking exactly!!

    What a gem on a boring monday afternoon! I do have a question that yearns to be answered - OP, will you be celibate your entire pregnancy?? Because who knows what sex could do to your developing fetus, right?  

    Well, going by her method of thinking, if it's a girl like she's been doing her shettles for, she may be traumatized and become a lesbian and if it's a boy, he may be traumatized and become transgendered.

    Or it may be a homosexual transgendered baby, since according to her being transgendered and "homosexualism" are the same thing.


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  • imageTAOMAB:
    imagerocknrollfriend:

    This is not exactly what you said in your blog, but it does sound slightly less crazy and judgmental, so good back-pedaling. I did NOT feel like I wasn't doing enough when I had my CP, though, that assumption on your part is completely wrong. I KNOW I didn't do anything wrong, and your insinuation in your original blog post that CPs are due to some "mistake" made by the mother is insulting, hurtful, and wrong.



    Hey, no back pedaling there. Why would I say that CP or M/C are a mother's fault if I am myself not out of the woods for each one of them? Come on! Everyone who's ever been pregnant is dealthy afraid of either one of them, including me. I am simply doing what I can and think is right to possibly minimize those chances if that's how it works.

    Careful, being deathly afraid sounds stressful.

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    imageTAOMAB:
    imagecaffinated_tulip:
    Maternal stress does not cause homosexuality. Homosexuality is not a mental illness you ignorant bimbo.


    Of course it's not an illness. And it being caused by maternal anxiety doesn't make it an illness.
    Gender and sex develop separately in a fetus, if at a very specific time during brain development, there's too much cortisol that makes it through the placenta, that can cause gender not to "link up" with the sex.
    Oh, jeez, why am I even trying to educate you? Go read up on it yourself, {insert whatever name you'd like me to call you, since I won't stoop to that")

    Cite your peer reviewed studies, please.  I trust they're backed by respected research institutions and these "links" you mention are as causal as you seem to suggest they are. 

    Make your own choices, but I will fall over dead if you can actually show credible research to adequately support the things you're claiming.  I tend to think it's more likely that you are alarmed enough by every weak correlational relationship that any "medical professional" has ever published to the net or in a self-promoting book. Gardening=toxoplasmosis?  Sorry- your equal sign is just incorrect.  Does gardening involve a risk of contracting toxo?  Sure.  But do does playing soccer outside and picking up the ball.  So does playing in a sandbox with your child.  So does touching anything organic outside your home.  The risk is negligible.  Wearing gloves seems like a reasonable precaution to me.  Placing onself on house arrest?  Well, it wouldn't be my choice.  If it works for you, well-- have at it. 

    You could trip and fall in the second trimester on your way to the refrigerator.  Everything involves risk.  If you'd really like to minimize your maternal anxiety, you might think about getting a handle on what real, proven, undue risks are and focus on minimizing those.  Otherwise, God forbid something should go wrong in your child's gestation or development, you'll be agonizing about something you believe you caused when likely you could've done nothing to prevent it.

    This!  Let's all pray she only wants one child, or her first born may end up in the basement with her for 9 months down the road too.  Can you imagine the germs LOs bring home from DC, school, or ~gasp~ a birthday party???

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  • imageEmmybean:

    All the research I've done points to really early positives leading to gay babies.

     

    Not that there is anything wrong with that.

    Congratulations! 

    Yes I read a million books that said the same thing!

  • Wow...my head is spinning from all of the nonsense this woman is spewing.  She is completely out of touch with reality.  Good luck with pregnancy and parenthood...you're going to need it.  And be sure to keep us posted on it's progression, we ALL could use the entertainment as you come to realize how jaded you truly are...
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  • imageTAOMAB:
    imagecaffinated_tulip:

    Good try, but wrong. 

    Gender is socially constructed, not biological. The rules for "gender" differ from culture to culture, with no respect to biology.

    Maternal anxiety does not cause homosexuality. If it did I'm pretty sure that there would be more homosexuals than straight people in society and we'd be experiencing a population decline rather than an increase. 

    You should check your sources, just because it's on the internet doesn't make it real sweet heart. 

    And you can call me what ever you like.



    Look, I am only going off of what I've read over the years, and NOT on the internet, thank you very much.

    Gender is socially constructed? Are you crazy? Maybe you misunderstanding the terms.  Sex is the genitalia, gender is the mental understanding of its own sex. I am not talking about gender RULES. I am talking about how our BRAIN perceives gender. Boys aren't boys because society expects them to be boys. They are wired differently, they behave differently, their brain is VERY different from girls. That's what gender is.
    So when you take an external stressor, be it stress hormones, or environmental toxins, and apply it AT THE RIGHT MOMENT and CONTINIOUSLY ( that's why we're all not gay- obviously pregnancy is stressful), you might get a disassociation happening.
    Is what I am saying really so hard to believe? Does it make sense at all that it could happen? So if it could, doesn't it make sense to reduce those stressors to a minimum during pregnancy as long as there's a way to do it?

    The study that I am referring to, exposed pregnant rats to stressors, measured the amount of cortisol released, and then found out that 60% ( i think that was the number) of those rats' pups exhibited homosecual behavior. And I know you're going to go crazy over the rats are not people thing, but we all work the same, hormones work the same, we develop the same way, and one can only study animals not humans, so that's all we have to go off of. And I'd rather be careful than not.

    And I don't call people names, it doesn't make me feel better putting other people down, so I'll pass.

    P.S. Doesn't it feel better to discuss things normally without ridicule?

    Yes, gender is a social construct. Any person educated in a field even remotely connected to human development knows this.  This is not something learned from a website where anyone can write anything, or even a book from a bookstore, where again people can write books on whatever they want. So please tell me where all of this information you have used to "educate" yourself comes from, because I have spent years studying psychology and child development and never has any one of the highly educated and well trained professors mentioned any of the ridiculous claims you are making.

  • imagehoney740:

    Here's a psych lesson for you OP:

     Narcissistic DSM IV Criteria

    A pervasive pattern of grandiosity (in fantasy or behavior), need for admiration, and lack of empathy, beginning by early adulthood and present in a variety of contexts, as indicated by five (or more) of the following:

    (1) has a grandiose sense of self-importance (e.g., exaggerates achievements and talents, expects to be recognized as superior without commensurate achievements)

    (2) is preoccupied with fantasies of unlimited success, power, brilliance, beauty, or ideal love

    (3) believes that he or she is "special" and unique and can only be understood by, or should associate with, other special or high-status people (or institutions

                 I mean who else has a blog dedicated to self portraits? AYKM?  

    Yes 

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