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  • jessielynn1jessielynn1 member
    starree444 said:

    Sex vs gender.


    I really bugs me that people say gender when they find out if it's a girl or a boy. To me there is a difference and what you find out on the ultrasound is the anatomy which to me is the sex. The way I see it is gender is between your ears and sex is between your legs.

    Also "gender" reveal parties. So dumb and selfish ( I was crucified on babycenter for this).
    Totally agree with you but I don't think that's an unpopular opinion around here lol
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  • Monilee1017Monilee1017 member
    kmcconnell22 said:

    I know a lot of people dislike the direct sales stuff, but I actually don't mind it.  All the parties I've attended have been a lot of fun.  I love my Pampered Chef and Thirty-One products, and Usborne Books are awesome!

    I don't mind them either. The way I look at it is if I went out to eat and drink with friends I would have spent the same amount. So with these parties I'm eating, drinking, spending time with friends/family and getting a bag, blanket or whatever out of it for the same price.
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  • Emott13Emott13 member
    mommaSimpkin said:

    A lady on my Facebook calls her 8 month old daughter "little fatty" because her daughter has a couple extra rolls.
    Seriously? Stop calling her a fatty. She's going to grow up thinking/knowing her own mother, thinks she's heavy.
    She's a baby!
    My first son had a little bit of rolls going on and his doctor said he was perfectly healthy, and he'd rather see babies with extra on them. Besides as soon as he started walking, it came off.
    But calling her a little fatty because she ate two muffins? Seriously. She was hungry obviously. I'd rather my kid eat until their full then have them hungry until the next meal.

    SAME. Although I'd extend this to include ANY kind of unsavory talk. Don't insult your child's other parent around them, don't make snide comments about other people's appearances, for goodness' sake, don't curse around them. I know lots of women don't seem to care, because their kid is "going to hear it somewhere anyway" but your kid is MOST going to emulate you when they grow up. You're the one they hear the most, you're the one they will want to grow up to be, set an example for your kid that you'd be proud for them to follow. With so much worry about "bullying" these days, so many women aren't willing to change their own behavior to be the person they want their child to be. They learn the most at home; if they aren't treating others properly, it's probably your fault.
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  • Monilee1017Monilee1017 member
    starree444 said:
    Sex vs gender.

    I really bugs me that people say gender when they find out if it's a girl or a boy. To me there is a difference and what you find out on the ultrasound is the anatomy which to me is the sex. The way I see it is gender is between your ears and sex is between your legs.

    Also "gender" reveal parties. So dumb and selfish ( I was crucified on babycenter for this).

    I agree, I think gender reveals are selfish. Everyone I know personally that have had them are AWs. I haven't gone to any, I have been invited, because I don't care what the sex of your baby is. If you want to tell your parents in a special way fine, but don't think your going to waste my weekend or afternoon because I'm not coming. I will go to your baby shower and your sip and see. Also I really can't stand when people have them and know the sex beforehand.
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  • mrsgetz4000mrsgetz4000 member
    My husband is really driving me up the wall today. Trivial things. Like criticizing how I put the laundry away. Well, you don't even put it away. Asking me if the dishwasher is clean. Just look at the dishes. Or did you not notice the sink no longer has dishes in it? Or telling me I have really bad timing putting clothes in the dryer because he wanted to tumble his uniform for work. You couldn't have done that 3 hours ago, or hung up your uniforms after you washed them? Or not listening to anything I say so I'm constantly repeating myself. I know it's all stupid, but some days these pregnancy hormones make me really impatient
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  • ccoleemanccoleeman member
    @Monilee1017 I agree on the name thing. I told my sister I liked the name Benjamin, which she said was on her list (of 40+ names, started 2 years ago) and we can been struggling to come up with a boy option. We didn't have to after all, because we found out we're having a girl. She told me had we picked Ben, she would have found it extremely difficult to forgive me and would've been extremely angry, because that's her name. I wasn't even that attached to the name I just thought it was a decent option in case we had a boy.
    Mind you, she still has her IUD in, and she and her husband don't plan on trying until 2017.
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    Scared of getting flamed for this but here goes...

    I don't understand why there's a new fascination with refusing the glucola drink. I realize that it makes your blood sugar spike, which is what it's Msuppose to do. I'm assuming the people who are against doing the drink also never drink soda or juice? It's usually a one or two time thing. I'm not drinking it all the time. If it can catch GD I'm all for it. If someone can shed some light on this, I'm open minded.
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  • kmcc14kmcc14 member
    babybluu said:
    Scared of getting flamed for this but here goes... I don't understand why there's a new fascination with refusing the glucola drink. I realize that it makes your blood sugar spike, which is what it's Msuppose to do. I'm assuming the people who are against doing the drink also never drink soda or juice? It's usually a one or two time thing. I'm not drinking it all the time. If it can catch GD I'm all for it. If someone can shed some light on this, I'm open minded.
    I didn't know that refusing it was a thing.  :-??
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  • starree444starree444 member
    babybluu said:
    Scared of getting flamed for this but here goes... I don't understand why there's a new fascination with refusing the glucola drink. I realize that it makes your blood sugar spike, which is what it's Msuppose to do. I'm assuming the people who are against doing the drink also never drink soda or juice? It's usually a one or two time thing. I'm not drinking it all the time. If it can catch GD I'm all for it. If someone can shed some light on this, I'm open minded.
    People actually refuse it? But... how else are you going to test for GD? I'm mind boggled!
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    @kmcconnell22 (so many doubles in your username lol)

    Yeah there's a couple other boards I'm on, and even this one a couple times, people have mentioned they don't trust the drink because they don't want their blood sugar to go that high/can't be good for the baby stuff like that. They talked about substituting it with jelly beans?? But if jelly beans can substitute and do the same thing, then technically aren't you getting the same amount of sugar?
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    https://community.babycenter.com/post/a29923379/refusing_glucose_tolerance_test

    Stuff like this.

    Idk I know a woman who was a healthy, normal weight pre pregnancy and during pregnancy and somehow she still got GD. I'm sure she thought she was healthy as well, and had she not done the drink, she wouldn't have found out.
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  • kmcc14kmcc14 member
    babybluu said:
    @kmcconnell22 (so many doubles in your username lol) Yeah there's a couple other boards I'm on, and even this one a couple times, people have mentioned they don't trust the drink because they don't want their blood sugar to go that high/can't be good for the baby stuff like that. They talked about substituting it with jelly beans?? But if jelly beans can substitute and do the same thing, then technically aren't you getting the same amount of sugar?
    Yeah, I could see if you weren't doing it at all, but if you're substituting with something else just as sugary, then that makes no sense.
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    kmcconnell22 said:

    I know a lot of people dislike the direct sales stuff, but I actually don't mind it.  All the parties I've attended have been a lot of fun.  I love my Pampered Chef and Thirty-One products, and Usborne Books are awesome!

    I totally agree with this for the most part. I'm obsessed with my scentsy waxes lol. I like to leave them burning all day which I can't do with a candle, and sometimes the Walmart ones smell too waxy to me. But scentsy and pampered chef are the only ones I like. The ones I don't like (I don't think they do "parties" though) are the "it works" and beach body stuff, the ones that try to get you to lose weight quick. Those sketch me out. I'd rather work out and eat right. Idk just my opinion
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  • mommaSimpkinmommaSimpkin member
    babybluu said:

    Scared of getting flamed for this but here goes...

    I don't understand why there's a new fascination with refusing the glucola drink. I realize that it makes your blood sugar spike, which is what it's Msuppose to do. I'm assuming the people who are against doing the drink also never drink soda or juice? It's usually a one or two time thing. I'm not drinking it all the time. If it can catch GD I'm all for it. If someone can shed some light on this, I'm open minded.



    I've teased around with DH about how I want to refuse the test just because I hated the drink with my first pregnancy. It made me gag so much.
    But I was just teasing, and in about 8 more weeks, I WILL take the test and drink the liquified sugar.
    In my own opinion... Drinking the nasty drink, and taking the test is apart of pregnancy. I knew it was Part of the deal when we were trying to get pregnant. I made the adult choice to make the baby, now it's my adult obligation to make sure the baby and I stay healthy, and to me that includes taking whatever damn test comes up.

    As for substituting it with jelly beans or something just as sugary... Do people seriously think a little sugar is bad? Cause I can probably almost be certain, that some of our cravings we all eat, are higher in sugar intake. But it's ok to us, because it's once in a while and not all the time. Just like this sugary drink is a one time thing.
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  • Cricket99Cricket99 member
    My UO is: I refuse to get a flu shot. I have never had the flu in my 27 years and I have never had a flu shot. I don't see the point in getting a shot for a particular strain of flu that the scientists are guessing will be the one to get passed around this year. I'm one of those people that the random rare side effects happen to, so I keep up with my regular vaccinations with nothing extra. (Yes, I plan to vaccinate my children, herd immunity is important.)
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  • paigeyferdpaigeyferd member
    Why do some women feel the need to put their hand on their hip when posing for pictures?  I mean, I KNOW why, but...stop.  It reminds me of having to take cheerleader portraits in high school.  It's cheesy and dumb.  Nobody stands like that.  We all know you have a waist.  Just...stop.
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    paigeyferd said:

    Why do some women feel the need to put their hand on their hip when posing for pictures?  I mean, I KNOW why, but...stop.  It reminds me of having to take cheerleader portraits in high school.  It's cheesy and dumb.  Nobody stands like that.  We all know you have a waist.  Just...stop.

    I'm laughing right now because I do it lol. But for me it's because I don't like the way my arm looks pressed against my side. I think it looks fat lol. I don't like the sorority girl pose where they spoon each other while bending at the knees.
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  • paigeyferdpaigeyferd member
    @babybluu what does bending the knee do?
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    @paigeyferd I have no idea... The only people I know that do it are sorority girls I graduated with. They squeeze together like they're spooning, and then they bend at the knees, and lean towards the camera... It's so awkward looking
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    Google "sorority squat". It's a real thing lol.
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  • mommaSimpkinmommaSimpkin member
    Another UO from me

    I HATE when girls post bikini photos. Like it's one thing if it's a picture at the beach and it's from your shoulders up, or an innocent one.
    But when you're at home sporting your "new bikini" for all of social media. Or you bend forward to get your whole bikini in the photo, and your boobs hang out..
    No. Just stop.
    I don't want to scroll through my Facebook newsfeed and see you almost naked because you decided to share with me, your body in a way too small bikini.
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  • fricktion21fricktion21 member
    Oh man! I think you need to google the definition of gender my dear!!
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  • Vamason89Vamason89 member
    @babybluu @paigeyferd The squat is to show "families." So I stand behind my little and her little is in front of her. It's to show lineage.
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  • fricktion21fricktion21 member
    mommaSimpkin said:

    Another UO from me

    I HATE when girls post bikini photos. Like it's one thing if it's a picture at the beach and it's from your shoulders up, or an innocent one.
    But when you're at home sporting your "new bikini" for all of social media. Or you bend forward to get your whole bikini in the photo, and your boobs hang out..
    No. Just stop.
    I don't want to scroll through my Facebook newsfeed and see you almost naked because you decided to share with me, your body in a way too small bikini.

    Ps - definition of gender is the state of being male or female. The definition of sex refers to intercourse. This is just too funny to me!
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    @vamason89 oh okay good to know. Is it normal to do it when there's only two people side by side in the pic?

    And @fricktion21 huh?
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  • Vamason89Vamason89 member
    @babybluu then they're being dumb. Kidding. But not really.

    We would also do it for group pictures too. Since there's like a billion of us and all.
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  • ntyravgspntyravgsp member
    edited August 2015
    fricktion21 said:

    mommaSimpkin said:

    Another UO from me

    I HATE when girls post bikini photos. Like it's one thing if it's a picture at the beach and it's from your shoulders up, or an innocent one.
    But when you're at home sporting your "new bikini" for all of social media. Or you bend forward to get your whole bikini in the photo, and your boobs hang out..
    No. Just stop.
    I don't want to scroll through my Facebook newsfeed and see you almost naked because you decided to share with me, your body in a way too small bikini.

    Ps - definition of gender is the state of being male or female. The definition of sex refers to intercourse. This is just too funny to me!
    She's talking about bikinis, not gender or sex. :-?

    Also, definitions from dictionary.com:
    sex
    —noun
    either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated with reference to the reproductive functions.

    gender
    —noun
    either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior: the feminine gender. Compare sex (def 1).

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  • mommaSimpkinmommaSimpkin member
    Fricktion21
    I'm not sure where you got gender from my bikini post but ok?
    Maybe you replied to the wrong person? I'm hoping so.

    But I actually disagree with you.
    Sex isn't just something you can do with your partner. It's also how we identify what we are having or what someone else is.
    Gender is just being rude.

    In today's society, because there are so many different types of people, we have evolved and started the term "sex of the baby", to not offend or assign roles to the child. So the child can grow into who they really are.
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    I hate cupcakes. Cake too. I know I'm a freak, I'm ok with it.
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  • babybluubabybluu member
    @clairelosc mmmmm now I want birthday cake.
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