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| The Lounge | New Kitten..help! | Oct 20 2009 15:06 (UTC) |
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Sounds like my Jasmine (see picture!). This new kitten is also getting used to her new environment. The fact that she does come up to you and "let" you pet her is a good sign. It definitely might take a while for her to get completely used to you. Though she might never let you pick her up! When I got Jasmine she was 8 months old and never had a steady household. She wasn't abused, but she never received the amount of attention and care she needed to really make strong bonds. She liked me from the start, though--at the kennels she came right up to me and wanted my attention. When I got her home, she hid for about a week behind the couch. She slowly started coming up to me, and after a couple of weeks was laying in my lap. She's no longer afraid of people, though she doesn't hang around long once she's sniffed them. She still won't let me hold her for more than a minute or two (I've been working with her on that for over a year--and she's gotten better! but she won't let anyone else but me even attempt to pick her up). Now, my new kitten Cosmo? He'll come right up to you and practically jump into your arms. =P She'll become attached to you, even if it doesn't seem that way. |
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| The Lounge | House - SPOILER ALERT | Sep 22 2009 16:10 (UTC) |
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Original Post by kathygator: If House withdraws and goes back to his old ways, I'll stop watching the show. I very seriously doubt that he was playing Doctor Nolan after the first half of the episode. But seriously--if the show refuses to make any sort of commitment to change in any of the characters, especially House after he's gone through this whole ordeal, and House goes back to being a giant jerk with a drug problem, I give up on Fox and will really stop watching. Last season ticked me off so badly, with its just completely erasing the whole plotpoint of Wilson's grief and the damage that should have done to his friendship with House, along with a lot of other things that happened in that season, that I seriously considered not watching season six. But the opener was awesome. It restored my faith a bit in the writers--I hope House stays mostly fixed. I say mostly fixed, because no one's perfect. Not even House. ;) |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | How soon would a home pregnancy test be accurate? | Sep 18 2009 22:15 (UTC) |
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Original Post by hayleymajayley: Or you can just go to a dollar store and buy several pregnancy tests for a dollar. =P They're accurate, you just have to wait longer to use them, as they may not be as sensitive as First Response or Clear Blue, for example. |
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| The Lounge | birth control preference and reasoning | Sep 11 2009 02:49 (UTC) |
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Original Post by bootser1: These good brands do exist, yes. But my husband, when we were preventing pregnancy, was a very paranoid man. He wouldn't use the thinner condoms because he was paranoid they would tear. Also, for us, it's more the interuption that occurs when he has to put a condom on that throws us all sorts of off. Before I was on BC, we used condoms very, very briefly. Once I was on BC, no more condoms. Got off BC and when we DID see each other, and we needed condoms, it was like pulling teeth to get him to put one on. So I learned how to watch signs for my fertility, so he wouldn't have to use one all the time. If one has a regular period, learning the signs of when you ovulate, and planning around the time you expect to ovulate, surely helps. But not everyone has a regular period. Not to mention, it's a lot of work. I employed a "we can't have sex during this week each month, because that's the week I'd get pregnant," rule up until we decided we wanted kids. Obviously, we were still taking a risk that I'd ovulate unexpectedly during the rest of the month. =P I'd like to rely on this method again, but I don't want to risk getting pregnant right after baby #1, so copper IUD it is. Otherwise, I probably wouldn't put anything in my body. |
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| The Lounge | birth control preference and reasoning | Sep 11 2009 01:55 (UTC) |
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Original Post by cptbunny: What about the copper IUD? I'm pretty sure, since it's not hormonal, that that isn't one of its risks. :D OP, I've only been on one type of hormonal birth control: Alesse (? I think that's how it's spelled...it's been a few years). Liked it when I was on it, but I gained weight, had major mood swings, and really wasn't myself on it. I didn't realize this until I stopped taking it, and I was off it for at least three years before I got pregnant with this baby. Husband and I avoided sex/used a condom/did other sexual activities than vaginal intercourse during the times I could get pregnant up until December 2007, when we decided we would begin trying for kids. That December I conceived my first pregnancy, miscarried that January, and then he was deployed for 7 months. Resumed trying when he got back. =P We hate condoms. It ruins the whole experience for us, and we only used them when we really, really needed to. I plan on getting the copper IUD after I give birth--I want to avoid hormonal birth control, and being aware of my fertility and avoided sex when I could get pregnant is too risky for me. I don't want two kids back to back. |
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| The Lounge | SURVEY:How often would you do it? | Sep 08 2009 17:48 (UTC) |
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Ideal: At least once every other day Actual: None. Hubby's deployed and even if he gets home before I have the baby, I don't think I'll be up to having sex. I think he'll be slightly disappointed, if that is the case. |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | dont want children my wonderful husband does | Sep 08 2009 15:23 (UTC) |
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Original Post by kittyisaround: With enough shopping around in the States, one can find a doctor that'll sterilize you even if you are younger than 35 and have no kids. In fact, many of the childfree have managed to do just that--or get IUD's placed (which a lot of doctors won't do if you haven't had a child yet). It would take quite a bit of work, though, to find a doctor that was completely comfortable with the idea of sterilizing someone young. It all depends on the area she's in, too. |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | 5.5 months and miserable | Sep 08 2009 11:48 (UTC) |
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Original Post by kittyisaround: Dude, I hate this attitude. Pregnant women aren't allowed to b*tch? I, too, have found pregnancy extremely annoying since day one. I know that my inability to sleep because of my belly isn't going to be as bad as when the baby gets here (and who knows, I might have a baby that sleeps through the night after a couple of weeks, like I did when I was a baby!) , but seriously. The whole "pregnancy is a wonderful thing" is BS. It's not wonderful to the mother-to-be. It's annoying and painful and aggrevating, even if the pregnancy itself only lasts for 9 months. Sure, there's a baby in there, and that's wonderful, but really? I've been pretty much hating life since becoming pregnant. Women are allowed to NOT like being pregnant, and are allowed to moan and groan about usual pregnancy-related discomforts. Just because we're brewin' a baby doesn't mean we have to be all smiles, all the time. |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | How soon would a home pregnancy test be accurate? | Sep 08 2009 02:01 (UTC) |
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Original Post by smwhipple: Not true. I tested at least 4 days BEFORE my missed period and got a faint, faint positive in return. It really depends on the sensitivity of the test (I used a First Response HPT), and the amount of pregnancy hormone floating through the body. OP, I would probably wait another week, and test again. If it still comes back negative and another week later, you're still without a period, I would test again. =) Even for the most sensitive home pregnancy tests, you probably tested far too soon to tell. The only reason I tested as early as I did was I had pregnancy symptoms--yeah, they could have been PMS symptoms, but I never get PMS symptoms other than weight gain. I had a pretty strong idea I was pregnant 4 days before I even allowed myself to test, lol. |
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| The Lounge | Family pregnant with 19th kid... | Sep 04 2009 17:47 (UTC) |
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Original Post by jenniferthepennifer: Jennifer, Michelle Duggar is currently pregnant with #19. The oldest son and his wife are also expecting--but their child will be born before Mom's child is due. They haven't stopped having children, and will not stop until God stops providing them with children (aka, Mrs. Duggar hits menopause). So they're probably going to have a couple of more after #19. |
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| The Lounge | I had unprotected sex without being on birth control and didn't take the Morning After Pill? What are the chances of pregnancy? | Sep 02 2009 01:33 (UTC) |
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Original Post by mensafool: I think it's a bit hypocritical of someone to offer up "lie to the police and tell them you were raped" as advice on dealing with a potential unwanted pregnancy, and then get upset when people jump all over you for suggesting that this girl do something that is illegal, just so she can avoid having a child. Yes, I understand that you suggested this as an absolute last resort--but it really is stupid advice. What happens if the police realized she filed a false report? She ends up getting fined and loses out on money, anyway, that she does not have. It is against the law to file a false police report--breaking the law should never be considered an option in getting around a mistake. I'm sure that babibu will be able to acquire an abortion, should she need one, as she has already taken the necessary steps to make sure that she is still STD-free, as well as finding out whether or not she's pregnant in the first place. I am all for a woman's right to choose. She has decided she doesn't want to inform her family. She also was the one who chose to get drunk and high, and then have sex without a condom, and she realized that this was *her* doing, and she is taking responsibility for it. Claiming rape in order to get a free abortion is going to waste precious police time and effort that they could be spending on other crimes that actually happened--her life (and the potential life inside her) are not the only ones who will be affected (negatively or positively) by her making a false police report. And what if they did find a suspect? Rapes aren't exactly something police snub their noses at. They're treated very seriously, even those with vague details. I don't understand why anyone would suggest making the claim of such a serious crime in order to avoid taking responsibility for one's poor decisions. |
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| The Lounge | Look what my coworker just told me! | Sep 02 2009 00:52 (UTC) |
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I just posted on my facebook about this. D: I just was amazed that she wanted to go through this *again.* Weren't the doctors worried last time that her uterus wasn't going to be able to handle the strain of another pregnancy, when she was pregnant with #18? Maybe they will make it to 20 kids...that's terrifying to me. My father-in-law is 1 of 15. His family is HUGE. I can't imagine what it's going to be like for all of those kids, once they've grown up... |
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| The Lounge | I had unprotected sex without being on birth control and didn't take the Morning After Pill? What are the chances of pregnancy? | Aug 29 2009 21:33 (UTC) |
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Original Post by veggie_head: Uh, no, they don't deserve to be insulted. For one, in a lot of states, girls your age (under 18) can't even get the morning after pill WITHOUT a prescription from your doctor. I don't know if this is the case in ALL of the states, and I don't know whether the OP actually obtained the morning after pill and just forgot to take it (which is implied in her post), or if she forgot to pick up the morning after pill in the first place. And yes, you are on a high horse. You do know that condoms break, right? You do know that all forms of birth control, EVEN things like sterilization, all have failure rates, right? The only way to 100% protect oneself from pregnancy is through 100% abstinence. A pregnancy scare at any age when the pregnancy would be unwanted is exactly that--scary. Insulting the girl instead of actually being helpful by providing information she can use to help ease her mind, in the event that she is pregnant, is really counterproductive. Does that mean we shouldn't tell her that it was a bad idea to go out drinking, have sex, and forget the protection? No, but I think this scare has taught her the lesson she needed to learn, if in the event that she isn't pregnant. Making her feel like a piece of crap because she wasn't perfect with her pregnancy prevention isn't useful at all. |
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| The Lounge | newly wed | Aug 28 2009 12:08 (UTC) |
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Original Post by vikifernandes: Honestly, if you're married or planning on getting married fairly soon, condoms are kind of silly. Yes, barrier methods are the only methods that protect against STD's, but if the two of you are married, it's assumed that the two of you are going to be monogamous. In a monogamous relationship, STD's generally aren't a concern (as neither of you will be having sex with someone else who MIGHT have an STD, and then turn around and have sex with one another). A birth control pill or an IUD is probably your best bet. Birth control pills, you can control, so you make absolutely sure that they're being taken correctly. With an IUD, you can get anywhere between 5-10 years of protection from pregnancy. You can get the implant, too, or the birth control shot. All of which won't require surgery of any kind (the IUD can be placed in a doctor's office with a local anesthetic), and all of which will keep your husband intact. Vasectemies can be reversed, if you guys were to later decide to have children, but the surgery to reverse it is not always successful. Condoms require a lot of fumbling around. If you've never used them before, you might not know if they're placed right, they always have the potential to break during sex, and generally have a higher failure rate than most other methods of birth control (other than withdrawal and fertility awareness). Honestly, I wouldn't rely on them as long-term birth control. |
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| The Lounge | I had unprotected sex without being on birth control and didn't take the Morning After Pill? What are the chances of pregnancy? | Aug 28 2009 11:58 (UTC) |
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Original Post by jblarghp: jblarghp, you're forgetting that in this country, it really depends on which school you went to. Some schools don't have a sex ed program at all. Others teach abstinence-only, some teach a comprehensive sex ed program (abstinence = best, but here's how to protect yourself from STD's and pregnancy if you have sex). And honestly, more schools across the country teach abstinence-only, while emphazing the FAILURE rates of birth control methods like condoms and birth control pills, all the while being all like, "Don't you dare have sex," and making teens feel like condoms/birth control are useless anyway. Yeah. It annoys the crap out of me that there ISN'T a mandatory sex-ed program across this country. My school had a good sex ed program, as it was comprehensive. Schools like mine aren't as common as they should be. =/ |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | dont want children my wonderful husband does | Aug 26 2009 12:25 (UTC) |
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I'm with hotfuss--periods would be beneficial. =) In regards to your actual post, though. Having children is something a couple can't come to a compromise for. You either have a child, or you don't. You can't have 1/2 of a child--it's just impossible. You need to tell him that under no uncertain terms do you want children. You will probably have to break it off because the two of you are incompatible with these two very different long-term goals (you, no children and him, children). It's unfortunate, but if you knew from the very beginning and were upfront with him at the start of your relationship, you have to be firm and inform him AGAIN that you haven't changed your mind and you (most likely) never will. Some of the childfree do change their minds, but it's a smaller number than a lot of people like to think it is. If you don't want children, that's cool, but you have to make sure he absolutely understands that you mean EVER, and not "I don't want any right now." If he can't understand this and still has hope for children later on in your lives, you're going to have to move on and find another partner, because he'll probably grow to resent you if you never provide him with children. And if you were to get pregnant and have a child despite the fact that you don't want one, you're also likely to end up resenting him for never listening to you in the first place. And that's a bad place to be in a marriage. =/ |
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| The Lounge | Young Marriage | Aug 23 2009 01:54 (UTC) |
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Original Post by maryfway: Honestly, why I do agree that two people should only get married if they intend to stay together every step of the way, no matter how hard it gets, I don't agree with the statement that "this [attitude] is why young people shouldn't marry." The reason why? Many older adults now go into marriage with the mindset of "Well, if it doesn't work/either one of us becomes really unhappy, then we can just get a divorce." This attitude is not just one that is seen amongst the younger part of the population. This attitude, in general, is becoming more and more ingrained into a lot of people's heads because divorce has become so common place. When 50% of marriages end up in divorce, neverminding age of the couple, there is obviously something that has allowed the divorce rate to reach such a level. This attitude of "if it doesn't work, we'll divorce" is one of them. Is this saying that the girl you quoted is going to get divorced? Obviously it isn't, but this attitude, while great in theory (as you're watching out for your own mental health, which is just as important as the health of your relationship), doesn't exactly help the divorce rate either. Honestly, if I become unhappy in my relationship, I would surely hope that I would still manage to communicate this fact with my husband, and that we would be able to come up with some sort of solution together that would make me happier. I would never leave him simply because I was unhappy--just as I know he wouldn't just leave me because he was unhappy. And that's the way it should be. |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | Skin | Aug 21 2009 11:48 (UTC) |
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Honestly, there's not much you can do about the stretchmarks. They're permanent, but you can reduce the appearance of them. Nothing ever makes them really go away, though, aside from drastic surgery of any type. This is why I'm kinda grateful that I have a load of stretchmarks just from being fat already. And I mean loads. I have them all over my stomach, probably some on my butt, some on my legs, some on my arms, and some on my chest. I'm pretty sure I have them on my shoulders, too. The good news is, the majority of the ones I have are faded to white, and I've even gotten a few more (like, five really small ones) over the course of this pregnancy, and I'm waiting to see if more spring up. I know that, once I go to lose all of my weight and get down to my goal weight, I will never have a "flat" stomach. Not unless I have a team of surgeons go in and remove all of the extra skin I'm going to have from all over. |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | When should i have a baby? | Aug 15 2009 20:54 (UTC) |
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So? What's wrong with not wanting to have children? What's wrong with the suggestion to get a dog--even if someone is saying to do so instead of having a child ever? Not everyone wants children, crazyperson. Carmen is allowed to express that view in her private journal. OP--I would honestly wait to have a child, if I were you. I'm not saying this out of experience (though I am having my first child early, at 21), but saying this as someone who is pretty sure that medical school, your residency, and your internship will be way too hectic for you to raise a child properly. Establish your career first. Your educational period is going to be way too demanding, especially the further you go along, for you to accomodate the constant neediness of a child. If it weren't for the fact I could do my education for my career online, I definitely would not be pregnant with my first child right now. My education is highly important to me, and I know that at first, my work ethic in regards to school and work is going to suffer as a result of my having a child. I'm confident I can handle the workload--but if I were pre-med and planning on going to med school, I know I would not be able to handle the work load, work part-time, and raise a child. Unless you feel you're superwoman (and you very might well be!), it'll be quite difficult to balance two out of those three, what with how time-consuming medical school is. |
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| The Lounge | Young Marriage | Aug 15 2009 20:45 (UTC) |
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Original Post by healthystriver: Because we love the person we're with and figure why wait, we already know we're going to get married anyway? My husband and I were married at 18 and 19 (he was 18, I was 19). We're both 21 now. We have gone through one whole deployment and are currently in the middle of our second one, with our first child on the way. Neither of us were drunk or on any drugs when we came to the decision to get married early. I was going to stand by and wait for him, whether we were married or not, for the five years he had planned on being a part of the military. Getting married young highly depends on the two people involved. I had friends who, had the come to me with questions in regards to getting married early, I would tell them to hold off because they just weren't ready for it. Twenty-two is not all that young at all, depending on which part of the country you're in. At 22, one could potentially already have their bachelor's. Is it tough being married young? Yes, because people change quite rapidly at this point in time, and both me and my husband have already experienced some of those changes. We've made the commitment to grow old together, even if we don't immediately like the changes. =P But really, marriage is hard for anyone, and requires a large amount of commitment and understanding that it takes a lot of work to make it happen. Honestly, there was another poster on here whom I had to resist the urge to tell her not to get married any time soon--she was about the same age as the OP. If you know what you want, why not go for it? |
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| The Lounge | Book Suggestions- Horror | Aug 11 2009 14:39 (UTC) |
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I don't know if it's necessarily considered a horror novel, but "House of Leaves" by Mark Danielewski is definitely worth a read, any time. :D I'm about halfway through it now and it's absolutely brilliant. |
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| The Lounge | circumcision | Jul 21 2009 14:20 (UTC) |
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Original Post by amayou82: ::shakes her head:: It's your son's penis. Not yours. Not your husband's. Who cares which look you prefer. Honestly, I think pretty much all penises (penii? what's the plural for penis?) look pretty damn unattractive, circumsized or not. My husband's circ'ed--only because my in-laws decided they wanted all the boys to look like their dad. Yes, you'll be looking at your son's penis multiple times a day, every day, for at least a couple of years, until he learns how to keep it clean himself. But when he's an adult, you're not going to sit there and admire your son's penis! (at least, I would hope not...) Why take the decision away from him on which looks better? Not all women are going to agree with your views--some prefer the look of circ'ed guys, others prefer their men intact. My husband wishes he weren't circ'ed, but it's too late now because his parents made the decision for him. Not saying all men who are circ'ed wish they weren't, but it's still a possibility that, even though they've lived with their penis being circumsized all their life, that they still would have prefered to have it left alone. |
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| The Lounge | Oh, hey, did I tell you guys about Vodka? | Jul 19 2009 15:07 (UTC) |
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Original Post by splitrail: splitrail, I'm pretty certain that the other cat does not go outside, or hunt mice. Not to mention, if CD's had cats all her life, she's probably ALREADY been exposed to toxoplasmosis. This is why I tell people I don't clean our litterbox, even though I do. My cat is an indoor cat. I have had cats all my life. At least one of which was an outdoor/indoor cat who hunted lots of tiny creatures, and has probably already exposed me to this parasite. I hate the fact that people act like pregnant women should be paranoid of pretty much every single shadow they see because it could OMGHURTHEBABY. The other cat's health issues are related to it being old and really needing to be put out of its misery. My lifting the same cases of water and heavy bags of sugar/cat litter/dog food or what have you that I have been lifting for the year or so I've been working at Sam's Club now that I'm pregnant will not cause me to lose my baby. We've been giving birth to babies for tens of thousands of years, if not hundreds of thousands of years. A pregnant woman is not disabled, nor should she be fearful that a cat who is having health problems, and therefore using the bathroom in inopportune places, is going to cause major problems to her unborn baby, when the cat is neither an outside cat nor recently been aquainted with animals that carry the parasite. Not to mention, I'm sure CD makes Alex clean up after the old kitty, because the cat is Alex's, and she's already tried to convince him it would be better to let the cat go, than to keep it alive when it is clearly unhappy. |
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| The Lounge | HARRY POTTER is AWESOME! | Jul 15 2009 08:27 (UTC) |
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Original Post by fallingupstairs: As I found out, it was a very "hard" PG rated movie. It was so close to being PG-13 in my eyes, that they really could have gone either way. Movie seven needs to come out yesterday. D: I already know how the series ends (I've read all the books), but the movies are just awesome. This movie was awesome. I loved it. |
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| The Lounge | Woohoo! I'm goin' to Cedar Point next weekend. | Jul 14 2009 23:07 (UTC) |
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Original Post by dnrothx: This x 10000. Though, I'm pregnant too, and even if I could go to Cedar Point, I wouldn't be able to ride the awesome roller coasters. I miss amusement parks. ='( I haven't been to one in a couple of years now, and I'm feeling withdrawal from not having been on a coaster in that long. |
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| Health & Support | -Nevermind- | Jul 08 2009 21:12 (UTC) |
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Original Post by rock_me_asmodeus: fidget is very, very blunt. That's just how she is. However, any research you could do on your own would have told you that trying to lose 5-6kg (roughly what, 12-14lbs?) in a month, especially when you're already at a healthy weight for your height, is extremely unhealthy. Healthy weight loss is anywhere between .5-2lbs a week. fidget is *also* a doctor. And has gone through the horror that is an eating disorder. She is straight up telling you the truth, partly because she's been there, and partly because reaching for a BMI of 15 is very, very unhealthy. If you feel like you have too much body fat, work out and tone your muscles. You also have to eat enough to tone and build the muscles. You'll weigh more, but you'll have the body that you want. It will also be much healthier than to try to get to a BMI that could eventually kill you. |
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| Health & Support | What is a healthy weight? | Jul 08 2009 18:44 (UTC) |
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Original Post by meganwilliams2: You're misunderstanding the post. If you're five feet tall, 100lbs is a good weight to be at. If you're 5'1'', 105lbs is a good weight, 5'2'', 110lbs. It works for some, and not so well for other weights. For me, at 5'2'', 110lbs probably would not look good on me, because I have a very large frame for my height. Basically, all she was saying is that if you are over 5 feet tall, your weight should be 100 + 5x however many inches above 5 feet you are, for women. So at 5'10'', aiming for a weight of 150lbs is (100 + 5 x 10 = 150) not a bad idea. |
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| The Lounge | Man eats 68 hot dogs... | Jul 06 2009 02:18 (UTC) |
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Actually, from what I understand, Takeru Kobayashi, at the very least, works out a ton and takes care of his body as part of his preperation for eating as many hotdogs as humanly possible under a certain time limit. I've seen this twiggy Japanese man in action. It's actually fascinating to watch him do it. He does things to expand his stomach, but all in all, he also works out a ton to make sure he doesn't gain too much weight doing what he's doing. I'm sure he's sick as a dog after eating all those hotdogs, just like Joey probably was, at the end of the competition. The worst part is that the best competitive eaters also tend to be on the thin side, so it makes the idea of stomaching that much food in such a short-time span that much more disgusting/fascinating, lol. |
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| Health & Support | period weight gain? | Jul 02 2009 22:44 (UTC) |
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When I had my period (I'm pregnant now, so I haven't had it in a few months now, lol), I would always gain about 2-3lbs a day or two before I got my period. A couple of days after it started, the 2-3lb gain would go away, so yeah, I would say it's pretty normal for some women. In fact, that's pretty much how I knew I wasn't pregnant each month--I would hit the 2-3lb bloat and know I was going to get my period. It made getting my period not so much of a suprise, since the weight gain would always prepare me for it. =) |
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| Pregnancy & Parenting | welp no conception yet | Jul 02 2009 20:34 (UTC) |
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Also, I snuck over to your bio. Are both you and your husband in the military? How long have the two of you been married? If you are still in the military, how much longer do you have left? They can't make you deploy while you're pregnant, but they can sure make you deploy after you've had the baby. Do you really want to risk being sent to a foreign country after you've had a baby? If your husband is in the military, too, he could also deploy at any time. Not to mention, the two of you could end up deployed at the same time--who is going to watch your child, then? These are all questions you really need to think about. My husband left a month ago for his second deployment--he's not going to be home when the baby is born, and probably won't be home until the baby is, at the very least, three months old. It was harder on him to leave this time around than it was the first time, because he knew he was going to miss out on so much regarding the pregnancy, and miss out on a milestone or two. I almost wish we had gone with waiting until after this deployment had passed before getting pregnant--though when we began discussing that possibility, it was already too late. |
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