When Breastfeeding Isn’t Best
Let me say up front that I have limited direct experience with adoption. Some members of my extended family have adopted children, another has given up an infant for adoption, and I have friends who have adopted children, and other friends who are adopted. It was one...
HALLMARK – When you care enough to send the very . . . ??
Hallmark greeting cards and related trinkets have long exemplified wholesome, up-tempo, Norman Rockwell-styled sentimentality, often packaged in clichéd verses and trite images of puppies, kittens, flowers, babies, sunsets and other references guaranteed to elicit a...
Female Condoms, Risks of NuvaRing, a Birth Control Party, Lavender for Menstruation, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/YahsOWuemfM Hello, femcare companies? THIS is how you make a tampon ad! Another study in Appetite reports that chocolate cravings are unlikely to be induced by the menstrual cycle. (We reported on a previous study about PMS and chocolate cravings in...
I’m sick of being special.
I’m sick of being special. I am. I want to be ordinary. What brought this on? I was clicking through some of the July 28th Weekend Links (thank you, Liz!), and the article about birth control advice for women over 40 caught my eye, and while reading it, I became...
Bring on the Fat!
I’ve been doing research on my own menstrual cycle for almost four years, charting my cycle using the Fertility Awareness Method. My cycles have always been wacky. I got my period when I was 11 but bled only a couple times a year, until, at my doctor’s...
The Diva Cup Song, IUD TMI, Birth Control News, and More Weekend Links
httpv://youtu.be/22bGbXUnN6o Check out the Diva Cup song, by written and sung by Dan Parker, guitar by Matthew Wiviott, to the tune of 'Red Red Wine' by UB40. Victoria Brewster of The F-word explains some of the problems with disposable femcare products, Proud...
