I'm going to start us off with a good one. This was inspired by my lurking in September this week, I forget which thread.
If you use an Oxford comma, I don't care what any grammar guides say about it being fine with or without, you are wrong. So, so, so wrong. My journalistic heart cringes at the sight.
Oh good one @bluejeanbabi05! So here's my problem... my undergrad degree is in journalism and I hated the Oxford comma. In law school, they teach you it's a must, not even optional. So I've had to convert my ways.
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Also, that doesn't surprise me, as I imagine when creating legal documents a room of cackling men discuss how to make said document as long as confusing as possible. "More commas! Unnecessary commas! That'll really get them!"
My UO (though maybe I will get some crunchy mommas to agree) - I think placenta encapsulation is fascinating and I'm bummed it was contraindicated last time for me since i had suspected infection during labor and I had to cancel it and lose my deposit. Gonna try again this time if I can find a place (last pregnancy I was in Seattle and there were all kinds of places that would do it for me).
Go on. Call me gross. I don't even care.
TTC x 1.5 years.
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Also, that doesn't surprise me, as I imagine when creating legal documents a room of cackling men discuss how to make said document as long as confusing as possible. "More commas! Unnecessary commas! That'll really get them!"
Lol. Mostly kidding.
I heard this report on NPR where a guy won a lawsuit because his employer didn't use an Oxford comma in their contracts and it made the language "unclear" about whether or not he was eligible for overtime pay. Very interesting story.
@bluejeanbabi05 I love the Oxford comma and you'll never take it away from me!!!
@ForwardnBackward I also think placenta encapsulation is amazing and fascinating. I don't see what's so gross about it, it's dried and powdered and in capsules. It's not like you are throwing chunks of placenta into a smoothie or cooking it (although I do think some people do that, and I do think that's pretty gross).
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If the Oxford comma is wrong then I don't want to be right. Fun fact: I successfully campaigned at my organization to change our style guide to require it. My biggest supporter on senior staff was a woman who happens to be my work crush and also is a JD. I didn't know they required it in law school, but it all makes sense now!
@ForwardnBackward I feel like I read somewhere that encapsulating it negates some of the important nutrients, or something. Or maybe it was that it depends on the person who does the encapsulating? Is there controversy there at all?
@bluejeanbabi05 the process of encapsulating probably does destroy some of nutrients, hopefully not all. If nothing else, I'm all for the placebo effect that it might offer!
@jessafishy yeah I'm not so interested in the placenta smoothie route. I wish the company I had lined up had still taken the placenta and done some of the cool photos that they do with it though... wasn't clear in the head immediately post partum to ask them to still do that. Who knows what I would've done with the pics if anything but then maybe I would've gotten something from my deposit!
TTC x 1.5 years.
Acupuncture, Femera x3 cyles, and HSG. BFP in September 2014, DS born June 2015. TTC x2 months. BFP January 2017.
@ForwardnBackward Just please, I beg of you, if you do those photos this time don't put them on fb. No lie, an acquaintance of mine did that a few months back and NOPE I don't want to see it when I'm just innocently scrolling through my newsfeed! Lol.
i love the scent of full chemical cleaning products. and i have no issues using them in my house being pregnant nor having my children lick the surfaces of which i had just cleaned.
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@ForwardnBackward Just please, I beg of you, if you do those photos this time don't put them on fb. No lie, an acquaintance of mine did that a few months back and NOPE I don't want to see it when I'm just innocently scrolling through my newsfeed! Lol.
Absolutely newp. Not for social media. It's just... man I grew that, too. And it sustained my kid's life. I surprise myself how much I care about my placenta actually.
TTC x 1.5 years.
Acupuncture, Femera x3 cyles, and HSG. BFP in September 2014, DS born June 2015. TTC x2 months. BFP January 2017.
It drives me nuts that so many women will post things to fb, participate in marches and not show up to work in order to "stand up for women and their rights". Ok, cool. But how come when something happens to someone around you that could use someone to stand up for them, you're sitting over there complaining about how they're being mis-treated but refusing to do anything because "what will so and so say/do/think?"
How come so many of these same people will go on and on about being pro-choice, but then sit there and bash other women's parenting choices? Oh you let your kid CIO? How cold-hearted are you? You're a monster for cirumsizing your son. You didn't even attempt to breastfeed? Wow, talk about selfish. So you're going back to work after you have your baby? How selfish that you don't want to give up your career to stay home and raise your kids.
I guess my UO that is mixed in with that rant would be that I feel like so many of these so called "feminists" are hypocrits. Standing up for women's rights and the right to choose isn't just about what they do with their uterus and what may or may not be inhabiting it. To really stand up for women, you need to actually stand up for someone when a situation arises. Like confronting someone who is giving a publicly BFing mom a hard time, or someone who is vocally judging a mom in the store about how she is handling her child's meltdown. Stop judging how a mom decides to feed their baby, disciplines their child, if they're on their phone while their kid is playing at the park, every freaking decision that a mom makes for that matter. You say you're standing up for women, then actually stand up for them
My SIL's placenta, bloody legs, and possibly vag (very close call) were all over Facebook with one of her babies. Also, she made my mom and step-dad be in the room when she delivered the baby. To each their own, but do you really want your step-FIL to see all that? No thank you.
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i hate french pedicures. first of all why are your toe nails so long to be able to accommodate that? second - ewww. why are you trying to make your feet look like hands.
@beezeemarie Oh man she sounds interesting! I didn't even tell my parents I was in labor, and I had two days of it! Even the dread of telling my parents about my perfectly acceptable pregnancy made me feel like I was a ku 16 year old.
Placenta Encapsulation isn't gross but won't be partaking. Oh and stuff like that just doesn't belong on The Book.
Arby's used to be good, lately it's been such a let down, which is a bummer.
Nope to animal print. Just not a fan.
@sjohns08 I feel like 75% of these people you mention lately are just out there for attention on social media or strictly for their own selfish agendas. Few people make it about the over all greater good for women.
i hate french pedicures. first of all why are your toe nails so long to be able to accommodate that? second - ewww. why are you trying to make your feet look like hands.
I'm not a fan of French pedicures either but mostly cause every time I get one, they chip in like 7 seconds! I remember being on a vacation once and trying to fill in a chipped toe with white-out. No bueno.
@Myelhsa I loveeee Arbys and now that I don't live near one I love it even more and miss it so much! Now I want a Roast Beef Sandwich and some Jalapeno Bites!
My UO -- I'll probably step on some toes here, but I don't think toddlers and preschoolers need pacifiers.I had a friend say she wished her 1 1/2 year old would still take a pacifier and I couldn't wrap my head around it. I also have a friend whose >7< year old still sleeps with one.
Granted, DD would never take one. Thankfully, because I'm sure I would have had a hard time making her give it up. That being said, this LO will probably love a paci and it will impossible to take away until they are like 12 haha.
@beezeemarie Is the Oxford comma called for in The Bluebook? I am pro-Oxford comma, so I never even bothered to look.
UO: I do like grammar and I judge everyone (including professional writers, judges, and other high-end professionals) for breaking the rule of "parallelism" even though most people don't know or care what that rule is. It is a rule for listmaking. You violate that rule when you use a sentence like this: I like the art museum, the zoo, and going to the movies. Instead, that sentence should say: I like the art museum and the zoo and going to the movies. Or to make it nicer: I like the art museum and the zoo, and I like going to the movies.
It sounds so much better and makes grammatical sense to use parallelism. Educate yourselves here (and thank me later as you trip over your words trying to comply with the rule): https://https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(grammar)
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team love the paci (both when i was a kid, and for my kids). but there comes a point when they are around 2yo that is more of a hassle than it is worth, at least in my experience. but i get the fear of parting with it.
i dont get extended bottle use. you do you, seriously not judging. but i just dont understand the argument "it is the only way my 2yo will drink milk" at that point they really dont need much milk with the solids they eat, so who cares? they aren't going to dehydrate themselves. offer them milk/water in a sippy eventually they will drink it even if there are a few days of a strike.
::prepares for karma to bite me with #3 and the sippy cup transition in 18 months::
My almost 2 year old still uses a paci at night and nap time and as much as I hate it, not ready to fight him on it. But he doesn't wander about his day with one in his mouth, that's what I can't stand.
@ksf13 I am half with you and half not. I want to argue grammar, as long as everyone agrees with me As to the paci, none of my kids wanted one and I am happy with that result. I hope this one doesn't take one. That being said, I think that Parents magazine ran an article in 2010 (during my first pregnancy, so maybe way outdated) that said using a paci reduced the odds of SIDS by a very small amount. So, there may be some reasons to use it aside from kid comfort and silence.
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Re: UO Thursday 4/13
If you use an Oxford comma, I don't care what any grammar guides say about it being fine with or without, you are wrong. So, so, so wrong. My journalistic heart cringes at the sight.
Lol. Mostly kidding.
Go on. Call me gross. I don't even care.
BFP in September 2014, DS born June 2015.
TTC x2 months.
BFP January 2017.
@ForwardnBackward I also think placenta encapsulation is amazing and fascinating. I don't see what's so gross about it, it's dried and powdered and in capsules. It's not like you are throwing chunks of placenta into a smoothie or cooking it (although I do think some people do that, and I do think that's pretty gross).
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“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times,
if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Albus Dumbledore
@ForwardnBackward I feel like I read somewhere that encapsulating it negates some of the important nutrients, or something. Or maybe it was that it depends on the person who does the encapsulating? Is there controversy there at all?
TBH, I doubt the real health effects. But then I think that about most vitamins.
Baby Boy due October 2017
@jessafishy yeah I'm not so interested in the placenta smoothie route. I wish the company I had lined up had still taken the placenta and done some of the cool photos that they do with it though... wasn't clear in the head immediately post partum to ask them to still do that. Who knows what I would've done with the pics if anything but then maybe I would've gotten something from my deposit!
BFP in September 2014, DS born June 2015.
TTC x2 months.
BFP January 2017.
i don't grammar. sue me.
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I do marketing. Proper grammar is frowned upon here.
BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!
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Hmmmmmm, I know I had a UO this week but I can't rememberrrrrrrr ittttttttt!
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“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times,
if one only remembers to turn on the light."
- Albus Dumbledore
BFP in September 2014, DS born June 2015.
TTC x2 months.
BFP January 2017.
Arbys is poop.
*ducks*
I am also team oxford comma and while my placenta is fascinating to me too, I don't think I want to see it!
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jk. i like tasteful pops of animal print.
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How come so many of these same people will go on and on about being pro-choice, but then sit there and bash other women's parenting choices? Oh you let your kid CIO? How cold-hearted are you? You're a monster for cirumsizing your son. You didn't even attempt to breastfeed? Wow, talk about selfish. So you're going back to work after you have your baby? How selfish that you don't want to give up your career to stay home and raise your kids.
I guess my UO that is mixed in with that rant would be that I feel like so many of these so called "feminists" are hypocrits. Standing up for women's rights and the right to choose isn't just about what they do with their uterus and what may or may not be inhabiting it. To really stand up for women, you need to actually stand up for someone when a situation arises. Like confronting someone who is giving a publicly BFing mom a hard time, or someone who is vocally judging a mom in the store about how she is handling her child's meltdown. Stop judging how a mom decides to feed their baby, disciplines their child, if they're on their phone while their kid is playing at the park, every freaking decision that a mom makes for that matter. You say you're standing up for women, then actually stand up for them
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Team @bluejeanbabi05 on the oxford comma.
Placenta Encapsulation isn't gross but won't be partaking. Oh and stuff like that just doesn't belong on The Book.
Arby's used to be good, lately it's been such a let down, which is a bummer.
Nope to animal print. Just not a fan.
@sjohns08 I feel like 75% of these people you mention lately are just out there for attention on social media or strictly for their own selfish agendas. Few people make it about the over all greater good for women.
I think I'm caught up now.
@Myelhsa I loveeee Arbys and now that I don't live near one I love it even more and miss it so much! Now I want a Roast Beef Sandwich and some Jalapeno Bites!
My UO -- I'll probably step on some toes here, but I don't think toddlers and preschoolers need pacifiers.I had a friend say she wished her 1 1/2 year old would still take a pacifier and I couldn't wrap my head around it. I also have a friend whose >7< year old still sleeps with one.
Granted, DD would never take one. Thankfully, because I'm sure I would have had a hard time making her give it up. That being said, this LO will probably love a paci and it will impossible to take away until they are like 12 haha.
UO: I do like grammar and I judge everyone (including professional writers, judges, and other high-end professionals) for breaking the rule of "parallelism" even though most people don't know or care what that rule is. It is a rule for listmaking. You violate that rule when you use a sentence like this: I like the art museum, the zoo, and going to the movies. Instead, that sentence should say: I like the art museum and the zoo and going to the movies. Or to make it nicer: I like the art museum and the zoo, and I like going to the movies.
It sounds so much better and makes grammatical sense to use parallelism. Educate yourselves here (and thank me later as you trip over your words trying to comply with the rule): https://https//en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallelism_(grammar)
Preemie ID DDs; then DS; then natural M/C; now due 10/17
High risk for pre-term: weekly Makena injections
BFP#3: 2/9/13 EDD 10/18/17. Team Green for Round 2!
i dont get extended bottle use. you do you, seriously not judging. but i just dont understand the argument "it is the only way my 2yo will drink milk" at that point they really dont need much milk with the solids they eat, so who cares? they aren't going to dehydrate themselves. offer them milk/water in a sippy eventually they will drink it even if there are a few days of a strike.
::prepares for karma to bite me with #3 and the sippy cup transition in 18 months::
May Siggy Challenge: Parenting Fails
As to the paci, none of my kids wanted one and I am happy with that result. I hope this one doesn't take one. That being said, I think that Parents magazine ran an article in 2010 (during my first pregnancy, so maybe way outdated) that said using a paci reduced the odds of SIDS by a very small amount. So, there may be some reasons to use it aside from kid comfort and silence.
Preemie ID DDs; then DS; then natural M/C; now due 10/17
High risk for pre-term: weekly Makena injections