Posts by monkeyscience

It's very important to us that our child(ren) be raised in our religion, which eliminates many of our friends from the running. Additionally, large families are pretty typical in our church, and I have a hard time with the idea of...

Hard to say. I've only had one and my mom had 5. I know her first was about 31 hours of labor (no idea what she was counting as "labor", though), ending in a forceps delivery. My first was about 26 hours from first contraction to...

So my dad was over last night for dinner, and he happened to bring up the fact that he and my mom never designated guardians for us when we were minors. He said he was discussing it once with his dad and said that he figured he would...

Is there a thread or a group somewhere for those of us who are married, but are basically single due to our husband's job?   Sometimes I feel like I'm a single mom who just has a really, really big child support check (aka,...

We do have life insurance, and our son is the beneficiary if we both die. It's substantial, but not enough to set him for life or anything. At this point, I just don't see any of our siblings being ready to take on a child. Only two...

I'm keeping it short because my only child is 6 months old - we're definitely still figuring things out! But I'm interested to read other responses.   I chose "family-centered" more because that is my ideal. In reality, we are...

Hoping I can get some advice from people who have BTDT. We had our first baby six months ago, and as yet have not put together a will. I think we definitely need to, primarily to establish who will become the legal guardian of our son...

Hope you are doing okay, Mama. I saw in your profile you are LDS. Is your dh LDS? Either way, you should definitely talk to your bishop and let him know what is going on, that you need help to get out of your apartment because it is...

I know I'm really late saying this, but I'm so sorry Cait. Lots of hugs and prayers to you. I am glad you have some snow babies to try again with.

Just stopping by for a second to say yes, still alive, and reading along occasionally. Dealing with the busyness of work and a teething (we think) baby, and a lot of other things. Hopefully I can update more sometime soon!