He didn’t cheat on me with another woman, as far as I knew. He didn’t call me a bitch or anything. Sometimes he was really nice, but mostly he just ignored me. He didn’t always. In the beginning of our relationship, his world revolved around me, and mine around him. When had things become so bad that I wanted him to hit me, so I could have a physical sign of the emotional pain I found myself constantly battling?...
“Many typically developing childen, including my own kids, W-sit during play,” says Kendra Gagnon, PT, PhD, a pediatric physical therapist and associate professor of physical therapy education at Rockhurst University in Kansas City, Missouri. “It’s common in older infants and toddlers who are just learning how to move in and out of a sitting position.” W-sitting is also the preferred sitting position of kids with developmental delays, since they may have tight muscles around their knees and hips, as well as low muscle tone and weak trunk muscles, says Gagnon....
As most of us know, the amniotic sac is the life-sustaining, fluid-filled membrane that surrounds a developing fetus while it’s in its mother’s womb. Usually that membrane breaks during labor, or at the very least when the baby is born. Jessica Alba claims her baby Haven was also born inside the membrane during a vaginal birth. The membrane burst as the baby came out. More from The Stir: 6 Breathtaking Pictures That Show the Beauty of Giving Birth We can see so much in this photo....
But just because your OB/GYN has suggested being induced doesn’t mean it’s right for you. Here are six questions to ask your physician before saying yes (or no!) to induced labor: Why is inducing labor necessary? If you’re uneasy about being induced, Dr. Akua Afriyie-Gray, an OB/GYN at Loyola University Health System and an assistant professor of OB/GYN at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine, says it’s important to find out what’s on your doctor’s mind....
“During early labor, it’s often tough to determine if it’s back pain or labor contractions,” says Deena Blumenfeld, a childbirth educator in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and founder of Shining Light Prenatal. But there is a way to tell one from the other, and here’s how: More from The Stir: 10 Labor & Delivery Problems No One Warns You About Even if you think you’re experiencing back labor — or any labor signs, really — that doesn’t necessarily mean you should rush to the hospital....
title: “Is It Okay To Put Big Ticket Items On My Baby Registry Will People Buy Them " ShowToc: true date: “2024-09-03” author: “Christopher Desimone”
For the record, I think she’s nuts. First of all, the boyfriend, who’s a little corny but a decent guy, deserves to know that he’s one half in an open relationship. If tables were turned, I can guar-on-tee the poo poo would hit the fan if she ever found out he was lining up chicks on the side in case their love affair went south. But secondly, how can she really give the relationship the investment it deserves if she’s got one foot on base and the other running all over the field?...
Totally normal everyday scene, right? Except for the things that were so incredibly exotic about it. The little girl, so proper and able to actually field a request and get her parents, instead of belching into the phone and maybe rubbing it on her butt then flinging it randomly out the front door like my feral children would probably do. The bizarre spiraling cordlike thing that connected the headset to the … what was that thing?...
Since giving birth to her second child, 8-month-old Jaxon Wyatt, Kristin says she is finding it impossible to add muscle definition to her too-thin frame and really “hates” looking so skinny. The 28-year-old, who is also mom to 2-year-old Camden, is, like so many of us living in this post-apocalyptic-like universe where Kim Kardashian is a supreme ruler, obsessed with butts and wishes hers wasn’t so flat. Hold on just a second there....
“Umm, can Demani come in?” she asked. I scowled. Umm, Demani is a guy, I thought. I’m always a little wary of boy/girl friendships at this age. You know how quickly attractions can come up in the tween and teen set and next thing you know, that just-a-friend kid that was schlepping around the house has been promoted to boyfriend, and that requires a whole new set of rules. I’d rather not be bothered from the giddy up....
But there are some common threads, apparently — especially when it comes to what men thinks makes for good sex. We referred to Reddit to find out what men think makes a woman “good in bed.” Here’s what they had to say. “Change positions after a bit, or if things don’t feel right. Same goes for sounds and sighs in bed. Take things slow, enjoy the feelings. Experiment. Don’t get discouraged if something doesn’t work....
It’s time for a Mom Confession — because, let’s face it, we’re real mothers and sometimes it doesn’t work the way the parenting books say it should. This Week’s Confession: — I sleep naked, especially when it’s hot outside, and sometimes my toddlers come into my room and crawl under the covers with me. Often we’ll all fall back asleep together. I don’t mind — at this age, they are still innocent and don’t make anything of it....
“I do post pictures of feeding and sometimes I have people say things and other times no one does,” she tells CafeMom. “I saw [a story] on a mom page the other day about a woman feeding her baby in the car because she started feeding her baby in the store and people looked at her weird so she went to the car. And that’s kind of what made me make the video....
Suddenly I will go from calm, cool, and collected to waving my arms like a crazy person and yelling, “Abort! Abort mission!” You see, my marriage may be intact after couples therapy, but it’s no thanks to my therapist. If anything, my marriage counselor is responsible for just how close to divorce we came. And by close, I mean in our last session with this supposed expert, we were kaput....
So she started experimenting with makeup, and eventually started her channel to be an example for other dark-skinned girls. “Instead of looking for ‘dark skin,’ I’M going to be the person that people search for! When you see someone who looks like you doing something, it lights this fire in you. You feel like you can do it yourself. I wanted to be that person who is an example.” “I hope that companies notice that when you release products like this, you have to include everybody,” she said....
Well, let’s think about it this way: Have you ever enjoyed a bison burger hot off the grill? How about buffalo chili? Yes? Then to you, eating this big shaggy beast doesn’t seem scary in the slightest. In fact, yak meat is actually becoming quite popular among health-conscious consumers, who like it because — similar to bison — it’s 95 to 97 percent lean, low in fat and cholesterol, and packed with protein....
Apparently the super-delish cookies stimulate the pleasure center in the brain the same way drugs do. That means we aren’t hallucinating by thinking that our kiddos are hooked on them. But even though Oreos are junk food and may turn our children into junk food junkies — who really cares? Is this really supposed to make us paranoid enough that we won’t let our kids have sweets anymore? Ever since my son was a toddler, I’ve had no qualms about letting him have junk food....
And while you may know all about the heterosexual and homosexual communities, there are many other labels that fall under the LGBTQ+ umbrella. There’s queer, pansexual, kink, and asexual, just to name a few other identities. The celebrities ahead have spoken out about their sexuality — whether definitive, fluid, or completely without a label.
My Zaydee (grandfather in Yiddish) was a wonderful man, but he decided to make up a Hanukkah blessing, teach it to my dad, and continue it through the years. So the Hanukkah blessing I grew up on was all wrong. Thanks, Zaydee! This made it loads of fun when my more serious Jewish friends would come over and I would be eating pepperoni and saying this made up prayer. Luckily, as I grew, I was able to attend a Jewish day school and actually learn some things about my religion....
Here’s how 15 plus-size women personally define thin privilege: “Fat girl breathes: You need to lose weightThat’s not healthyYou are a drain on health careShould you be eating that?”
