Humor will not be tolerated!! -Portia

There have been some research studies that found circumcised men were less likely to get STI's or urinary tract infections. Also that their partners might have lower risks of cervical cancer. ( source ) This is the American Academy of Pediatric's most recent statement on circumcision, if anyone was ...

Women have been claiming their own sexuality for eons, and I doubt that in their own minds they ever saw themselves simply as receptacles for male sexual desire. You underestimate women. Can you clarify what you mean by this? I can think of quite a few examples, from the woman taken in adultery in ...

I had one more thought on circumcision: not all insurances cover it, so that's always something to check on if a person is considering it.

I think I'm the only one with (young) boys, Marduk. I'll tell you what we did if you're curious, but there wasn't a lot of philosophy behind it. I've had friends and family on both sides of the issue who feel much more passionately about it than I do.

I think measuring the level of "hard" is a challenge because different people experience things differently. Dragon Lady herself described the birth of her second as a pain-free unmedicated birth. I've known other people who had unmedicated births and felt a lot of pain. Does that make the...

Warm fuzzies & best wishes to you, Concorde.

DL that's interesting. Roberta delivered my oldest. I always liked Claudia because I thought she was good at explaining things. I've recommended seeing her specifically to a lot of friends, although she didn't deliver either of my kids.

Dragon Lady, I wonder if we had the same midwife. Thatonekid is nearly 5, but I went to those midwives too and I think she was still practicing with them for maybe a year or so after I had him. She also had me on cytotec (my water broke at 39 weeks and I didn't go into labor on my own. I went to the...

I love the Olympics. Every night I want to try a new winter sport.

Thanks for your perspective, bob. I'm sorry if I made anyone feel like they couldn't or shouldn't share their information or opinions. I've seen conversations on these types of topics get dicey before, and end up with people feeling judged or attacked for their choices. That's the kind of thing I'd ...

Welcome to the mommy wars, Whistler. It's a lot of good intentioned, research savvy women with very different opinions. And it's not over until someone gets hurt. I say this with love to everyone involved, but do we really have a responsibility to try to educate other people (especially people we do...

I was thinking words like caricature, parody, overly dramatized, over the top, etc. Maybe those are more in line with the feeling of that comment? I think there is an unfortunate stigma associated with planned home birth. That stinks that people have criticized your personal choices. I have a friend...

Ok, apparently I have more opinions than I thought. I'm sure you guys aren't using the word "right" in the sense of "this is the one, best, correct way to birthe a baby." But I feel like pointing out (for the sake of anyone else reading) that labor is an individual experience and...

Concorde, I think those labor videos are worse than actual labor. :) Unless you want to use the mirror, I don't think there's any position you can labor in and see what's going on. You just can't see past your stomach. And that never bothered me. Blood and guts and such freaks me out. Although my hu...

Until a minute ago I didn't realize what a wearable blanket was. :) (I have one, but we just call it a sleep sack) Anyway, one of my kids liked the sleep sack and the other hated it. It wasn't essential for my kids. My kids also didn't like to be swaddled for very long. It seems like by the time the...

My kids have been sick this week and my oldest has taken to drawing me pictures. Today he drew Samuel the Lamanite, but this time Samuel had the bow and he was fighting back. There was something by Samuel's face and my son said "that's a disco ball, to show you he won." I think we're getti...

We had coconut curry (from a mix) last night & it was really tasty. There were raisins in with it, which I thought would be weird at first. But they were great.

I got an airbake when I got married, too, Dragon Lady! I love it, but it's terrible for anything doughy. It makes an excellent frozen pizza, though. :) You could always try those pre-made pizza crusts they sell at the store. I know Boboli is one brand, but I'm sure there are others. That should cook...

I can see what vorpal's saying to an extent. There are lots of words we don't have in English that we take from other languages, and it makes sense to me that the pronunciation gets American-ized. But for ideas/things/words we do have in English that people want to use another language to express, I...

This is an older (but I'm assuming still accurate) post about how many children the First Presidency & Quorum of the Twelve have. (spoiler alert, the mode is 3) And some more recent follow up posts, number of children for the First Presidency & Twelve over time, and number of children for t...