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Everyone, This is a personal post and I appreciate any and all responses. It's been hard for me to face this for years. Right after my dd was delivered via C-sec (15 years ago) I complained of "fear", etc. and was given Droperidol through my epidu...

Two years ago my dd tore her meniscus and pinched her fat pad, left knee, while lunging in fencing (this was her supporting leg). First doc poo poo'd Rx'd PT to no result except more pain, increasing sedentary lifestyle for dd. I had strenuously as...

I guess that about says it all! As a future nurse -- possibly L&D -- I know I'm going to have to work very hard to deal with/support women who really shouldn't be having babies. Please share your stories and strategies for responding to the above...

...I mean by one mother! How many of you have worked in L/D long enough to have frequent fliers and how many babies have they had?! Same dad, different dads? Tell you stories! I'm also fascinated by multiples!

Hi everyone, I'm so lucky to be living on the Cape for a year. Long story, but it's great to be here for the off season. I'm a mid-life career changer who feels an inexplicable (kind of) call to nursing. I'm exploring taking prereqs at CC Communit...

Hi everyone, My 15 year old daughter just got her first job as a personal care assistant for a 5 y/o girl. This is what I know: Child is developmentally 9 mos -- wears diapers, crawls, has feeding tube, and has active seizures. No speech, just co...

Hi everyone, My 15 year old daughter just got her first job as a personal care assistant for a 5 y/o girl. This is what I know: Child is developmentally 9 mos -- wears diapers, crawls, has feeding tube, and has active seizures. No speech, just code s...

Thanks everyone, for helping me understand this. Can this be evident at birth - obviously if there is great discrepancy in weight or birth trauma there would be but some of my online reading said that CP sometimes manifests at anytime during the fir...

Hi everyone, My 15 year old daughter just got her first job as a personal care assistant for a 5 y/o girl. This is what I know: Child is developmentally 9 mos -- wears diapers, crawls, has feeding tube, and has active seizures. No speech, just code s...

Hi everyone, My 15 year old daughter just got her first job as a personal care assistant for a 5 y/o girl. This is what I know: Child is developmentally 9 mos -- wears diapers, crawls, has feeding tube, and has active seizures. No speech, just co...

This concerns false positives and a strange experience I had when pregnant. I was a great, compliant healthy patient. When it came time for the AFP test I had this **gut** feeling that I would get a false positive and worry for the duration of my pr...

Well, we'll just ignore my earlier thread about my missed period last week while on the pill and pretend I'm writing with an interest in the 50-something women in the news recently. The 57 yo who had twins via IVF and the even older woman in Georgia ...

Did anyone happen to catch The Learning Channel's documentary about the Duggar family of Arkansas? It ended with Ms. Duggar birthing their 15th baby

This is a really interesting thread. I've been struggling about whether to post my observation here because it's so hard to know the whole story. I come to this board with a background in family therapy and, at the risk of conjecture, this is what ...

Two years ago my dd tore her meniscus and pinched her fat pad, left knee, while lunging in fencing (this was her supporting leg). First doc poo poo'd Rx'd PT to no result except more pain, increasing sedentary lifestyle for dd. I had strenuously aske...

ooh, I'm not a nurse yet, but I'm trying to figure out what you are getting at! No dd (dear daughter) doesn't have any other symptoms. She has improved dramatcially by using orthotics. The ready-made ones from the podiatrist's office made all ...

Hi Elijah, I took the MFT route and I would do things differently knowing what I know now. I have not been in practice for over a decade, and what has changed the most since I left is the integration of medical management into mental health care. I...

Here's a quick question -- I've been on the pill for almost a year for cysts. This month, NO period Just PMS, cramping and a tiny bit of spotting. What's going on -- I'm 40 somthing and NOT PREGNANT! I'm supposed to start my active pills tonig...

UGH sorry for the typos.

I presume I'm perimenopausal and one of my concerns about going on the pill was "how will I know where I am" in perio-menopause. Does the pill interfere with the beginning of missed, light periods, etc.? Secondly re: the cyst, if I'm not ovulating, ...

I got a very strong feeling that there's a *very* disturbing agenda at play here. Cults and this family have a lot in common: confirmity (dress), rigid routines, punishments for deviating or questioning the leader (of course TLC isn't going to show o...

Remember the days whem women fought NOT to be "prepped" (shaved) for delivery?!!!

Now I know I'm old. But I go to day spas and stuff. So, who does this waxing? Estheticians? Derms? Does it hurt? Isn't this really high maintenance. I hate armpit and leg hair too and "the forest" under the swimsuit, but just help me figure out ...

"...It's really become the 'style" with the generation that revels in their sexuality and explores it to the fullest without shame..." Wait a minute! That was MY generation!

Sorry, but the idea of shaving pubic hair COMPLETELY off is essentially saying "I'm a child..." Pretty sick when you think about it...