Posts by Aura_Kitten

Oh also since someone, probably pannacotta, asked for sources ~ I highly recommend going to a library (preferably a University library) and browsing their section on childbirth in the 1800's through 1960's. Look for Michel Odent, look...

Quote: Originally Posted by Thystle What do you eat off of everyday, not just the kids? When I first moved out on my own, my mom's coworker gave me a small set of dishes... then one night I found an entire box...

That is just... so much money!! I mean, not judging but, I only bring in $680 a month, total, for everything. Plus $230 in food stamps. That $230 is supposed to last the entire month, and last month was the first month it didn't. I...

Where I live, a GOOD loaf of bread (as in, anything other than the dirt-cheapest white, non-fortified bread) is about $5 a loaf ... so yeah I bake our bread, and we don't eat a lot of it!! I bake a batch about twice a month, using the...

Eeeegh! All these responses about dr's possibly refusing GA is making me more aware I don't want to take the risk of have a tubal reversal, and then possibly needing an emergency c-s... because that is how strongly I feel about it. ...

I think applejuice is 100% right here. Also I want to add that I wasn't even allowed to *photograph* my sister's birth of her last baby, despite the fact that she really really wanted me to and she knew it would be the last one ever ~...

My ds has a wagon he likes to ride on small slopes... I allow him to, so long as he wears a helmet. If he falls out (which he's done a record number of two times, ever), he brushes himself off and gets back in. Because... :: drumroll...

my kids did this too... my dd is now really getting into this stage... I tried the empathizing... and the re-phrasing their sentiments... but what I found really worked, every single time, was to just take a deeep breath, and then put...

I agree that it's normal for them to want to look different, no matter how lovely they already are! I dye my hair a lot... and when it was black, my kids wanted black hair... when it was blonde, my kids wanted blonde hair... when it...

Fyrestorm ~ thank you for sharing your story. I'm so sorry you went through that... but THANK YOU for standing up to the system, for fighting back and showing them that we as mothers CAN fight back ~ and WIN.