Umm...like you say there is a genetic component. I would never disagree with that. You could have 10 kids and would probably have varying amounts of allergies. But just a question here...how and when did you introduce solids? And did your kids ever get formula supplementation? (Yes this has to do with allergies)
Exactly. I figure in 3 hours, plenty of time is available for hankey pankey. I'd love to hear it..."I've never been out on a date. It's not a date if your parents had to drive you. But in the 3 hours we were alone we slipped into the changeroom at school and had sex and I'm pg.". :-P
I did too. There comes a point where you are alone and have to take care of some of your own essential needs. I used to take DD1 in the bathroom with me, lay her on the floor, hear her cry start to swell, then pick her up while I was on the john, and have to put her down again to get off the toilet. But she was in my arms most of the time I was on the toilet if I was to be there for a few min. I'm not saying she NEVER cried, but I don't assume either that crying "can not possibly be detrimental". I think it can have some negative effects, particularily in the case of infants left to "cry it out" for hours on end.
Umm...in the traditional sense of the equation, dads don't "give up something" to be mammals. They just DON'T HAVE something. It's like saying a girl has to "give up the ability to pee standing up" because she's a girl. She doesn't "give it up"...it was never available to her. If she makes some crude cup with a hose coming out of it that she can insert under her to urinate into, so it goes out the hose, she can make a way to pee standing up. But that doesn't mean she was "lacking it" or "giving it up" if she never used it. She just was PERHAPS (in her opinion) gaining it by creating the item in question. If it was never created, no one would ever miss it. And while I know people who have thought up such contraptions, they are not used by most girls these days although they easily could be. I guess most girls don't mind peeing sitting down and don't see it as "lacking" in anything most of the time.
ITA! It's like the kids who know the idea behind what multiplication "is" but don't know any one time's table. B/c they rely on calculators to figure them all out. Then when there is no calculator they have to count 7x6 on 7 pairs of hands.
It hurt like heck for about 4 mos for me, while I was pg. But I found a way to make it tolerable. ;-)
I got some contractions while nursing...all the way through (not just in the 3rd trimester) but as they were not frequent, nor were they doing any "work" on my cervix, it wasn't worrisome. I have been told that basically, except in the case of pre-term labour scares or many previous miscarriages, most women don't need to wean for pgcy.
Yeah. We send our girls by bus to a french school in an english speaking city. In Vancouver, most elementary students (except the physically disabled) are not sent by bus to school: parents drive them or walk them or have a friend do it or as they age, they walk alone or take a city bus. But since there is only *one* french school for an area where there are *81* schools for english children, the catchment area is *huge* and they don't expect parents to drive their kids or walk them to school. Most children live within about a 10 min. walk from the nearest elementary school. My daughter's elementary school is a 15-min. drive. Her friends live much further and it is harder to get together for playdates. But when we mention anything to do with a school bus we often get odd looks, and questions and "I didn't know they didn't do that for kids who weren't 'delayed'" comments. Talk about feeling like you have 2 horns. However, the overall benefit is a good one we feel, since first of all, DH is from a french-speaking place, and his family doesn't speak english (so if the girls don't learn enough french they won't be able to converse with their only cousins). If we relied only on us speaking french to them at home, but sent them to school, 30 hours a week or so, to an english school, plus all the other conversing they need to do in english with MY parents (who don't speak french), with grocery store clerks, with people elsewhere...eventually they would become much stronger in english. As it is, the younger one has had a much harder time learning french so far than the older one.
I don't think I or anyone else said anything about "all the time". The fact is, kids are social beings, and they do look to society and their peers; why shouldn't they?
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ITA, which is why I said, in my previous post, <>.
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Umm...like you say there is a genetic component. I would never disagree with that. You could have 10 kids and would probably have varying amounts of allergies. But just a question here...how and when did you introduce solids? And did your kids ever get formula supplementation? (Yes this has to do with allergies)
Fio
Exactly. I figure in 3 hours, plenty of time is available for hankey pankey. I'd love to hear it..."I've never been out on a date. It's not a date if your parents had to drive you. But in the 3 hours we were alone we slipped into the changeroom at school and had sex and I'm pg.". :-P
Fio
I did too. There comes a point where you are alone and have to take care of some of your own essential needs. I used to take DD1 in the bathroom with me, lay her on the floor, hear her cry start to swell, then pick her up while I was on the john, and have to put her down again to get off the toilet. But she was in my arms most of the time I was on the toilet if I was to be there for a few min. I'm not saying she NEVER cried, but I don't assume either that crying "can not possibly be detrimental". I think it can have some negative effects, particularily in the case of infants left to "cry it out" for hours on end.
Fio
What about the child who wears "Good nights" to bed until 7 or 12? Lots of those around nowadays.
Fio
Umm...in the traditional sense of the equation, dads don't "give up something" to be mammals. They just DON'T HAVE something. It's like saying a girl has to "give up the ability to pee standing up" because she's a girl. She doesn't "give it up"...it was never available to her. If she makes some crude cup with a hose coming out of it that she can insert under her to urinate into, so it goes out the hose, she can make a way to pee standing up. But that doesn't mean she was "lacking it" or "giving it up" if she never used it. She just was PERHAPS (in her opinion) gaining it by creating the item in question. If it was never created, no one would ever miss it. And while I know people who have thought up such contraptions, they are not used by most girls these days although they easily could be. I guess most girls don't mind peeing sitting down and don't see it as "lacking" in anything most of the time.
Fio
Well-said.
Fio
ITA! It's like the kids who know the idea behind what multiplication "is" but don't know any one time's table. B/c they rely on calculators to figure them all out. Then when there is no calculator they have to count 7x6 on 7 pairs of hands.
Fio
It hurt like heck for about 4 mos for me, while I was pg. But I found a way to make it tolerable. ;-)
I got some contractions while nursing...all the way through (not just in the 3rd trimester) but as they were not frequent, nor were they doing any "work" on my cervix, it wasn't worrisome. I have been told that basically, except in the case of pre-term labour scares or many previous miscarriages, most women don't need to wean for pgcy.
Fio
Yeah. We send our girls by bus to a french school in an english speaking city. In Vancouver, most elementary students (except the physically disabled) are not sent by bus to school: parents drive them or walk them or have a friend do it or as they age, they walk alone or take a city bus. But since there is only *one* french school for an area where there are *81* schools for english children, the catchment area is *huge* and they don't expect parents to drive their kids or walk them to school. Most children live within about a 10 min. walk from the nearest elementary school. My daughter's elementary school is a 15-min. drive. Her friends live much further and it is harder to get together for playdates. But when we mention anything to do with a school bus we often get odd looks, and questions and "I didn't know they didn't do that for kids who weren't 'delayed'" comments. Talk about feeling like you have 2 horns. However, the overall benefit is a good one we feel, since first of all, DH is from a french-speaking place, and his family doesn't speak english (so if the girls don't learn enough french they won't be able to converse with their only cousins). If we relied only on us speaking french to them at home, but sent them to school, 30 hours a week or so, to an english school, plus all the other conversing they need to do in english with MY parents (who don't speak french), with grocery store clerks, with people elsewhere...eventually they would become much stronger in english. As it is, the younger one has had a much harder time learning french so far than the older one.
It sets us apart. Yes. That doesn't make it bad.
Fio
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I don't think I or anyone else said anything about "all the time". The fact is, kids are social beings, and they do look to society and their peers; why shouldn't they?
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ITA, which is why I said, in my previous post, <>.
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