Post by Cheesecake on Dec 17, 2012 17:28:51 GMT -5
Are you bringing it somewhere? Is it on a cardboard round? I wouldn't put a napkin under there as that might stick, but some kind of board to make it easier to remove from the box might be good.
Post by Cheesecake on Dec 17, 2012 11:30:38 GMT -5
Do you have any way of getting into a Sligro? They sell chips of real white (and dark and milk) chocolate. It's chocolatier grade though. Otherways Kingsalmart in Amstelveen and Eicholz on Leidsestraat. Both ridiculously expensive though.
Before I was able to get to Sligro, I'd just do chunks off real chocolate, chipped off chocolate bars.
Thanks. I started when I was about 12 years old. Quit for 2.5 years once when I was 24/25. And now I'm 33. This was the first time it was actually fairly easy to quit. I knew I really wanted to. DH and I quit together. I used a patch and smoked my last cig just before I got on a plane to the US. The fact that smoking isn't allowed anywhere anyways made it a whole lot easier to quit.
A good year before we quit we actually moved into our new home, and had decided to make it a smoke-free house, so from that moment we actually only smoked outside. I guess that helped too!
I chose where I went based on the fact that they're supposed to be the very best doctors in the general area where I can still get to the practice fairly easy from home or work without having to take half the day off. I really don't care as much about nice or anything, as I care about good. The only thing I do care about besides good, is that they're willing to really explain things to me, and not like I'm a 5 year old, but use the real language so I can look things up myself as well.
The practice I'm at now is at a local hospital and has a couple of professors and other highly experienced ob/gyns working there. Who you see is dependent on what you're in for, so you see multiple people within the practice as doc nr 1 is the professor of fertility whatnot, and doc nr 2 is specialized in (high) risk pregnancies with kidney issues (and those are the 2 I've seen so far).
So far I've "liked" the fertilty doc best, she was super nice, but the kidney guy was very thorough and explained everything super well, so that was a great experience as well.
Don't think watching porn is a man thing, but for either goes, I don't think everyone *needs* to watch it. I don't think forbidding your husband/wife to do something is ever the way to go. If you feel so strongly about something the other person enjoys, you need to have a long hard talk about what you both want out of your marriage (preferably before getting married) as I don't believe in forbidding your spouse things. I feel that indeed forbidding something will lead to lies and much, much bigger problems than watching porn. And being opposed to porn doesn't make you a pride, forbidding it does make you a restrictive spouse and is IMO a very strange thing to do.
Regarding being opposed to the porn industry. Meh, I'm not. I've been friends with people close to the porn industry for many many years and despite the fact that it would not be my choice to do porn, I have nothing against it. But then again, I would never want to be an accountant and I have nothing against them either. Guess I'm just super liberal!
Happy birthday berbles! And thanks Berbles, Lola (I'm dying to know what your name used to be, can't figure it out), sunflower and horseoutside. You just made me feel much much better!
You need to chill. And also try and be more sensitive to the people who are also posting on this board.
Wow, you're really on a roll here, Autumnrose! Just being nasty to people left and right. You have a bad case of cramps or something???
FWIW, weighted, I personally don't think it's insensitive to be disappointed by the fact that you're not pregnant. I'm disappointed every single cycle. But then again, I'm apparently crazy and extreme, so well, there's that.
Post by Cheesecake on Dec 16, 2012 10:46:41 GMT -5
Oh, and ETA to your ETA autumnrose25. If you don't realize that having a big pregnant belly is going to cause you to not be able to see your crotch very well anymore, it's not an issue of it being a first pregnancy, but the issue of either being dumb or blind.
I don't get why it's apparently okay for pregnant women to whine about stupid shit they knew was going to happen, while it's not okay for me to vent about that annoying/hurting me on the GETTING pregnant board.
.....because the post you are talking about was on a board FULL OF PREGNANT WOMEN!
If the post had been put on the Getting Pregnant board you would be 100% correct to be annoyed.
But you really can't understand why your reaction to a post on a totally different board is a bit extreme?
If you actually had read more of my responses on this thread, you would've seen that I said that seeing that triggered this, not that that's the big fucking issue. Please actually read before responding. Kthanksbye!
Oh, Jesus, clearly a slow weekend around here. I think she gets it by now.
Well, uhm, no, I don't get it, actually.
I don't get why it's apparently okay for pregnant women to whine about stupid shit they knew was going to happen, while it's not okay for me to vent about that annoying/hurting me on the GETTING pregnant board.
And I most certainly don't get why pregnant ladies who are not regulars on this board need to come defend their own honor on this board because I'm venting about something related to GETTING pregnant here.
I didn't respond to the post that triggered me. I didn't actually tell my friend to shut up and stop her whining because she'd be *gasp* pregnant and that actually means you get a belly. I posted a vent about it here. On GETTING pregnant. Where a whole lot of the regulars are going through many, many cycles trying without any luck. Where most of the regulars don't have children/have never been pregnant/lost a pregnancy.
So no, I don't get it. I don't get why apparently everybody and their dog needs to come explain how I'm wrong and a whiny pregnant chick is right. I don't get that and I will never get that.
And if I'd ever be so lucky to get pregnant and start whining about trivial shit like not fitting into a pre-pregnancy swimsuit 2 days post partum, or about not being able to see myself shaving I better hope someone gives me shit about that. Because while honest complaints about your body not functioning the way you want it to because you're growing another human are fine with me (although there is a place and time for that too!) just being a whiny bitch because you were pregnant definitely is not.
And now I'll go back to posting my charts and obsessing over symptoms that *might* indicate that I actually *might* be pregnant and *might* be able to stay pregnant beyond implantation which *might* lead to a healthy pregnancy in which I *might* not have to go to the hospital for checkups every 2 days, in the case that I *might* keep a normal blood pressure and I *might* not lose kidney function, so I *might* not actually die before my *possible* kid goes to college.
Post by Cheesecake on Dec 15, 2012 15:37:37 GMT -5
True, it was triggered by a post here, but it's more of a life in general thing for me. Friends who complain they don't fit into their size 6 bathing suit 2 days post partum (the size 8 she wore 1st tri fit more than easily though) just get a side eye from me.
I get that being pregnant isn't all rainbows and puppies, but there indeed is a time and place for complaints (or vents even) and already whining about gaining a bit of a belly while pregnant just irks me.
Post by Cheesecake on Dec 15, 2012 11:57:48 GMT -5
Women complaining about how hard it is being pregnant. Honestly, the next person I hear/read complaining is going to get a good shanking. There are enough women who would wish they'd be having those side effects.
(Inspired by another post on another board here where someone whined about not being able to see anymore so now she has too much pubic hair.)
Never hit anything that I know of. Though if a big ass snake would get under my wheels I wouldn't mind. I'm really damn scared of snakes and there are too damn many of them in Colorado. Fortunately not so many here. Here all I have to look out for with roadkill is birds and small domestic animals.
No really. I'm going to go through 9 hours time difference in a few days. I'm 5DPO. I need to stop the temping madness and not obsess until the new year.
Not sure how it'd work with yesterday's tragedy, but whenever people talk smack about the US in NL (or about NL in US it's usually based on assumptions, not fact. I usually answer with 'well, if that would be the case, I would be scare/dislike it/whatever is appliccable', and then educate them on the real goings on. (I've regularly had people in the US ask whether or not it scared me that you could buy heroin in the supermarket here, or whether it scares me that everyone I know in the US own a gun or has been shot (at), in both cases saying that if that was the case, I would indeed be scared, really does work. I comforts them in the fact that thinking those things are scary isn't weird, but at the same time it gives me the chance to explain that in fact, heroin is illegal in NL, and that I personally don't know anyone in the US who's ever been shot at (except for my uncle who was in active duty in Iraq).
It sucks though, always having to defend yourself/your country. Good luck! (And I also agree with mrsukyankee. You should definitely let them know that this behavior hurts you if they go too far.
Hi and welcome. After a positive (the first cycle or 2 of using opks) I used to keep testing until it fades. This way I found out that what I thought was a positive, really wasn't. It's again mainly about understanding my personal cycle.
After I figured out how my surge worked, I started using less sticks, until I was out of pee-sticks. When I got a new brand / batch this cycle, I peed more again, just to make sure it's the same sensitivity. It's not, but because I know how my cycle works (9cycles charting, very consistent pattern ) I now know what to expect with these sticks, and go back to using hardly any.