If you hadn't had kids...

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Registered: 04-23-2004
If you hadn't had kids...
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Thu, 05-20-2004 - 10:34pm
And your dh made enough $$ to support both of you comfortably, do you think you would be working?

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Registered: 02-23-2004
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 2:42pm
You aren't getting it. We did plan. I've answered your question, is it still just not sinking in to you?
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Registered: 03-29-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 2:43pm
personally, i find your post more than a bit disturbing -- especially that you would so characterize PJM that way <>

Yuck. FWIW, i find your ideas incredibly narrow-minded and simplistic to the core -- with no room for anyone to deviate from YOUR path in any way -- even if that path has been fruitful and positive.

oh, and all moms are on duty 24/7.

eileen

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Registered: 03-29-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 2:47pm
Her reasoning is absolutely ridiculous. I LOVE being a mom and revel in it day after day. I'm so proud of my children and the young people that they are -- and are becoming. I'm so proud of all that my son has accomplished for his bar-mitzvah that is coming up this saturday.

oh and i've continued to woh as a teacher. BFD....doesn't change my enjoyment of or appreciation with motherhood one single darn bit.

eileen

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 2:47pm

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Okay, if you go that route, then we have to start comparing diets. Her diet could have been much more nutrient packed than yours, so even with the loss of nutrients due to freezing/thawing hers still could have been much more nutritious than yours. Maybe you ate donuts and french fries every day and she ate broccoli and fish.


You're not some super mommy because you bf longer than many.

Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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Registered: 06-27-1998
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 2:49pm

So what do you put in your dd cup when she was 5 months old if not b-milk?

PumpkinAngel

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 2:51pm
Please explain further.

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Registered: 12-29-1999
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 2:55pm
You know, my DH has a step-aunt who does this. She's home all day & they've never had kids. She spends a lot of time caring for other people though. Elderly relatives and the like. Before DS was born, when I was working p/t, I spent a great deal of time helping my mom care for my grandmother. Mom is an only child, not in great health, and was working f/t, so she appreciated the help. And now that she's gone, I'm SO grateful for all that extra time w/my Grandmother, even if I didn't realize how grateful I'd be for it at the time.

Maybe that's why spending time w/my parents is so important to me now...

C

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Registered: 03-31-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 2:59pm
"So you were adamant about not using bottles, backed up by your research which is not very firm."

Hmm, perhaps you could provide us with some *firm* research which supports the idea that bottle-feeding is BEST LOL? BTW, I didn't find out about the *research* until my dd was a toddler. In other words, I don't make decisions based on research, I make them based on what *I* think is the right thing to do.

"but you didn't listen to the experts about solid foods?"

Nope, LOL. I listened to my dd. Obviously, the experts hadn't met my dd.

"Most recommend not serving solid as in solid (not mushy) foods until much older don't they?"

Hmm, so is this what *you* did right? Btw, as I have already stated, it took my dd several weeks, if not months, of experiementing with solid foods to get to the point where she actually got some nutritional value from them, and by this time she was precisely the age that the *experts* recommended LOL.

"In fact I believe the research states that babies really only need b-milk for the first year to thrive....right?"

Yes, yes it does, and your point would be??? BTW LOL, this is what *you* did right?



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Registered: 03-26-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 3:01pm
I don't think SAHMs are plump.

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Registered: 10-18-2003
Tue, 05-25-2004 - 3:08pm

This is soooo typical of you.


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Umm, that's what the rest of us do. But you still insist that we are either wrong, or not as wonderful in our parenting as you.


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See above.


Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color.  Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.

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