Posts by cheerios

It seems to me that the specific bfing "covers" do two things - 1:  call everyone's attn to the fact that you're bfing and 2: de-normalize bfing, as if things are only "proper" if you wear a tent over your child and breast!...

Thanks to eveyrone for your input.  It is helpful.  I guess I need to draw the picture more clearly.  DH says that the real issue is that I did not tell him the complete truth in the beginning, after being the one...

Now he's also telling me i have to write emails to the priest who married us (to tell him we married under false pretenses and need an annulment, i think), my college friends for more perspective on how screwed up I was, and one of the...

Long time mostly lurker here.  I've been married almost 16 years.  Was in early twenties when I got married and we didn't date long.  Long story short - after the first boy I ever went out with (at a very naive age 13 in...

Yes, I am looking for a vac for both carpets and hardwoods. We do not have an identified problem with lead, but it is an older house, there is chipping paint throughout, and we have had some work done lately.

In addition to wet cleaning and lead testing for baby and home, I would like to purchase a HEPA vacuum that meets the standard of not blowing dust back out of the machine and spreading it around the house. If anyone has had experience...

I have an dd about to turn 11 this month too, and I've been thinking about the very same things! And I also have a 1 year old. I'm searching other threads for more books, because we already have the care and keeping of you. I'm really...

I'm sorry you are going through this, and I second all the ideas the other posters have written. My first dd was a lot like this, with her own variations - like continuing to go to sleep late and wake up late all the way until age...