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February 2012 Moms
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I'm going to the dentist pretty soon here, and I won't be back til this afternoon. Give me something good to read when I get back, ladies!
Pass the sheet cake.
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Re: UOs
I HATE getting pedicures. Other people touching my feet like that skeeves me out, big time.
This also applies to foot rubs, even from H.
I agree! We also have one this memorial day. I'm not to happy
It sucks buying gifts for kids who are obnoxious brats. BIL's step-daughters may or may not fall into this category.
This is a confession, I suppose. Whoops.
Edited: I never spell "category" right on the first try.
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I think people who wear clothes that make them look like a prostitute have no right being offended when people make ssumptions about them. Sorry, if you dress like that you clearly want the attention and need to realize it isn't going to be all good.
Also, anyone who says the blanketly "hate" a type of music automatically loses some credibility in my mind. Really? There isn't one single song in all of X type of music that you like? I'm not a fan of rap but there are some songs I crank up in the car...same with techno/classical/oldies.
Why post an UO under an AE?
This wasn't flameworthy. No need to make an AE for it.
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Jinx!
Agreed. Take some pride in your appearance and the appearance of your family. You don't have to wear designer clothes, but even goodwill carries nice, not-worn-out items that you could wear.
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Not to prevent flames, to hide my true identity! Found a "stalker" and snotty comments on my posts somehow kept showing up on FB so had to do something to hide my UO and FFFC's from her...
Great minds think alike
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So block her on here and on facebook. Sorry, but I find this ridiculously annoying.
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I don't like the penis/vagina ultrasound photos to reveal the baby's sex on facebook. Your poor child's private parts are now on display for public viewing. We believe you, we don't need proof.
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I don't mind the basic anatomy scan that shows the profile, but the 3D/4D creep me out! Why do you want to see your baby when they are looking freaky??
Thanks for the warning!
(I hope I didn't offend you, I really didn't mean to.) I really believe that I'm the only person I know who has no desire to see anyone's u/s pics, ever. A friend of mine called me "defective". I can live with that. 
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YAY!!! I can't wait!!
AMEN. One of my friends did this this week, and I had to really bite my tongue. The hundred million pictures of your gender reveal party were enough for us to figure out the gender, along with your 1900 posts about your baby.
For some people, their children are the center of the universe. This is definitely on the level of "excessive" but I suppose it will be fun for the new mommy.
I'm excited for them, but now that I've been pregnant and had my share of intrusive strangers/relatives, I feel bad for how much crap she is going to get since she is in the public eye.
UO- I don't like eggnog.
I'll take this one step farther (or maybe just tailor it to a specific situation)... It annoys me when I see photos of new dads holding their just-born babies in ratty fraternity tees and the like. Unless your partner had a super quick or very dramatic L&D, there is time to throw on a polo or clean plain t-shirt for the birth of your child (pack one in your hospital bag).
Typing that out feels totally ridiculous, but I swear I see so many FB photos where I go "Hmmmm, I didn't know so-and-so's husband was a Sigma Chi Beer Pong Champion... Ah, and hey! New baby, too! Fabulous!"
Perhaps this is a second UO-
I'm not sure why we are jumping down the throat of that AE. I think it's a shame that someone feels targeted and like they need to be sneaky to post an UO, but I don't see why it's annoying. The internet is largely anonymous anyway, what does it matter which anonymous name they choose to use?
My DH thought he was going to get blood and goop all over himself in the delivery room because of horror stories one of our male friends told him about his wife's birth. Maybe they don't want to bloody-up a shirt they care about? That's my only explanation.
Definitely possible. And my reaction is somewhat irrational anyhow
I know this could start drama...hence unpopular opinion!
I do not plan on replacing our car seats when they "expire" if they weren't in accidents that damaged them. I do not plan on keeping DS rear-facing until his legs hang over into the trunk--I'll probably even switch him around before two because he's big for his age and it's annoying to get him in facing backwards.
I agree! How weird. And if you're going to take pictures of just you and your husband like this, PLEASE keep them to yourself. All I think about when I see them is how that baby was made.
WARNING--LONG POST--SKIP NOW IF YOU ARE ON MOBILE DEVICE OR DO NOT WISH TO READ.
Just for background, I have BF'ed C for 9 months now, but my UO is that I think the supposed "benefits" of BM are so vastly overstated on this forum that it makes me want to stab my eyes out. If I have to read one more post on the BF-ing board about how "BF babies make special fat cells that dissolve once they wean, unlike FF babies whose fat cells are PERMANENT" or "you can use BM to cure anything, including ear infections!", etc.
The only real "benefits" to BF-ing that have been proven by science is that BF-ing burns calories (and may slightly decrease the risk of breast cancer in women) and that it helps reduce GI infections--but even that benefit is less "amazing" than I think many of us are led to believe. The most-cited study regarding lower GI infections in BF-babies concludes that for every twenty-five breastfed babies, there would be one fewer GI infection in the first year. All the rest of the supposed "benefits" (less childhood obesity, super healthy immune systems (other than a slight decrease in GI symptoms), increased intelligence, etc. are now thought by many to be much more linked to the baby's family's financial stability, parental involvement and similar measures. In other words, the type of women who are physically and financially able to BF for a year tend to be either SAHM with husbands who can financially support their families or WOHM in pretty decent jobs that have much higher working conditions (place to pump, time to pump, managers that don't guilt-trip them into stopping short of a year, non demanding physically, so that they have the physical stamina to keep up with the extra 500 calorie a day toll on their body). It is a known fact that kids in middle-class to uper-middle class families are much less likely to be obese, less likely to get all sorts of illnesses, and are more likely to be more intelligent than average because they, as a group, have parents who are able to spend more time with them reading books and doing learning activities (instead of parents who work their butts off just to put food on the table and keep the lights on). So, in studies where financial stability and the intelligence of the parents has been factored in, babies who were BF and FF were pretty much indistinguishable.
I say all this because it is just irking me in real life and on this forum to hear so many "my breast milk is liquid gold and it can cure the world's ills" talk. Yes, BM has some benefits over formula, for the above 2-3 reasons. But BF-ing also can, in some circumstances, cause mothers so much undue stress, physical torment (mastitis, absesses, bleeding nips) and cause the woman to bear a significantly higher percentage of the child raising responsibilities (moms usually have to work all day outside the home and then still wake up multiples times per night to feed the baby or pump, while dad just snoozes away).
Based on this, I just think that the benefits of BF-ing are overrated to the point of absurdity on these boards. I have mostly enjoyed BF-ing my kiddo, and I guess I am glad that she was 4% less likely to catch a GI bug this year (but so far she has had a massive stomach bug--so who knows!), but I didn't go through any of the physical and emotional trials that I read about every single day on these forums. I just wish moms were presented the entire picture, complete with scientific evidence on "why" breast is best, and then allow us to be adults and choose for ourselves whether the benefits outweight the burdens for each of our families. I am over the patronizing and judging that goes along with this ONE decision out of the millions of decisions that we will make that affect our children's well-being in their lives.
Let me just say, I am an AW. Annnnnd I milked that shizz when I was pregnant. I loved the attention. DH and I were beyond excited. It's all I could think about, so I was your annoying friend on FB who posted 698769 things a day about my pregnancy. We didn't have trouble TTCing either. We were just.so.excited!
Also...I announced my pregnancy at 8 weeks....so it was a long drawn out process. I even posted the pictures that TB had for "your baby is the size of..." and whatever fruit. every.single.week. But I had friends that would comment if I was late to post a picture of fruit. I think I should have been a blogger.
I felt sad for the AE. WHO CARES! It's not like they posted terribly offensive UO's. Not really sure why a call-out was needed...
Yikes. Good luck with this one.
All I have to say is that I would MUCH rather pay for a new car seat after it expires than have an accident and find out why they expire. ALSO, it may be annoying to put your kid in rear facing, but I would rather the annoyance than any terrible injury.
I guess that's a couple things...
Just FYI--the reason you replace seats after 7 years (or whenever they expire) is that plastic does not react favorably to sitting in your car season after season. The interior of your car gets significantly hotter than the temperature outside because of the sun beating off the windows. Then, when you get in the car, you jack the temperature back down to a liveable number. Same situation, but reverse, in the winter. After years of these multiple temperature swings per day, the plastic does get brittle, and then it very well could shatter or bend in a way that it was never designed to do in a wreck. IMO, the risk of having that happen could NEVER be less than the cost of just plunking down another $35-40 for a non-expired seat from WalMart. That cost, averaged out over the seven years that you know you have before you will have to make that expenditure is virtually nil.
In fact, if you ever get in the situation where you literally can't afford an unexpired seat (or to replace a car seat that has been in a wreck) and you are planning on just winging it with the old one--send me a PM with your address and I will send you the cash to buy a new one. I am not joking even a little bit. That applies to every person on this forum. If you literally have to make this decision because money is so tight, just drop me a note. Car seats are very carefully designed to withstand specific stresses. They should not be used other than exactly as stated in the instruction manual. Off my soapbox!
How hard is it to do ten minutes of research on the internet or call your Pediatrician?
I think releasing things (balloons, floating lanterns, etc.) into the sky to celebrate/commemorate someone or something is a TERRIBLE idea.
What goes up, must come down. Just because you release it into the sky and watch it float away doesn't mean it stays up forever. It comes down as LITTER that someone else has to clean up or worse, that an animal will choke on or get tangled in. It makes no difference that it started out with good intentions. Plant flowers or something instead!
On a side note, releasing butterflies/birds irks me too. Most of the butterflies will meet their demise before they're released or shortly after. And birds get all panicky when released and end up pooping on everything. Not very thoughtful at all.
BFP #3 - 05.20.11, EDD - 01.31.12, Logan is here! 02.05.12
BFP #2 - 03.16.11, M/C 03.24.11
BFP #1 - 10.17.10, Blighted Ovum dx, M/C 01.09.11
As Sooner said, it has nothing to do with being in an accident. Check out these Youtube videos.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvCRz7BRAM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PMn6ML-sOQ
I can't agree or disagree with turning him to forward facing before 2, but I doubt that he grows a significant amount between 18 and 24 months. If you can wait until 18 months he should be fine until 24 months, if 4 year olds can still sit rear facing he should be able to make it to 2. I don't get why you would want to put him in danger for your convenience. Unless you were in an extreme situation like Lancy where her baby gets ill from being rear faced for more than 30 minutes.
Also, why would you need to keep them past 6 years anyway? It looks like your kids are spread apart enough where they would both need to be in convertibles so you would already have two. By the time either of them reaches 6 years of age they would need a booster seat anyway.