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"Hillary Israeli" wrote in message ... Ah. Just wondering. Because mine were flush with the opening of the os, and that resulted in knifelike stabbing pains on my poor husband! I ended up having it removed (he just used alligator forceps or something to grab the bit that he could reach) which was no big deal, and Berlex provided another one for free, so, it all worked out in the end. I very honestly don't remember. I know he trimmed them really really short (I can't feel them and DB doesn't stub his toe anymore), but that's about all I can remember right now. Jess |
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Circe wrote: I doubt that it's the Micronor that's keeping you from having periods. It could be either. About 10% of women on the mini-pill get amenorrhoea (50% on the newest brand, Cerazette, but that's by-the-by). Of course, the odds are still that it's due to lactational amenorrhoea, since her baby is fairly young. All the best, Sarah |
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Sue wrote: "Chookie" wrote in message I think some of you need to calm down a bit. Seeing the way the discussion is going, I will add: Hasn't it occurred to any of you that the post was humorous? That's exactly what I was thinking. That's Amy's posting style. She is very aggresive and humerous at the same time. I'm going to choose to take that as a compliment. Considering that I just chewed out some punk kid who was driving like a moron (it started with, "HOW DARE YOU drive like that when people like me have their kids in the car...?") I think it's safe to say I'm like that IRL, too. Although, I will say that every time vasectomy is mentioned, people do get all up in arms. It's like some cannot even comprehend that some parents are done having children and really do not want anymore, no matter what. Having children is not the be all and end all. There are other things in life. Yeah, like chocolate. Amy |
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In article .com,
"Amy" wrote: Seeing the way the discussion is going, I will add: Hasn't it occurred to any of you that the post was humorous? That's exactly what I was thinking. That's Amy's posting style. She is very aggresive and humerous at the same time. I'm going to choose to take that as a compliment. Put it this way, Amy -- if you'd posted that in aus.family or said it at a women's coffee morning in Australia (which is the same thing, really), there would have been cheers and laughter. No criticism. -- Chookie -- Sydney, Australia (Replace "foulspambegone" with "optushome" to reply) "In Melbourne there is plenty of vigour and eagerness, but there is nothing worth being eager or vigorous about." Francis Adams, The Australians, 1893. |
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"Amy" wrote in message
I'm going to choose to take that as a compliment. Please don't be offended. I meant that in the most nicest way possible. I like that you are honest in what you feel and you are funny. -- Sue (mom to three girls) |
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This is being typed late at night and in rather a rush, and because my
newsgroups aren't working and I'm going through Google, it's being typed in Word first and then cut and pasted in. So please excuse me if it's a) incoherent and b) crappily formatted. Something that I've learned the hard and painful way is that it is a Bad Idea for me to lose sight of the idea that our marriage is about working together as a team. This involves a lot of things, and these things include respect for each other's viewpoints and a willingness to make decisions together rather than laying down the law. No matter how sure I am that I'm right on a particular issue, no matter how unwilling I feel to compromise, I've found that presenting it as "This is the way we're doing it, so suck it up and deal with it" is a really, really bad idea. It's a bad idea because what it really means is "I do not have enough respect for you to think that your opinion on the subject is even worth taking into account. You are a nonentity in this decision." This does not promote marital harmony. It fails to promote marital harmony in much the same way that Saddam Hussein failed to promote peace on earth and goodwill towards men. What I have learned, and what I wish to hell I could always remember myself when I'm dealing with situations in real life rather than reading about them on Usenet, is that the thorny issues in life are things we deal with together, because that's all part of being a team. Which means ditching the "Suck it up and deal with it" attitude in favour of "Sweetie, we've got a problem here. This is the way I see it - what do you think?" A lot of people in this thread seem to be talking as though the issue here was which partner in this marriage is going to coerce the other partner into doing things _their_ way. When I have tried approaching problems in our marriage with that attitude, it didn't work. Oh, boy, did it not work. Of course, that doesn't mean that it wouldn't work for anyone else. But I've found that what works for us is to stop thinking in terms of which of us gets our way, and start thinking in terms of there being a problem here that we need to work together on dealing with, and bring _that_ attitude to the discussion with my husband instead. After all, that's the attitude he tries to use with me, and that's the attitude I _like_ him to use with me rather than a "Do things this way" attitude. So, it's only fair. All the best, Sarah -- http://www.goodenoughmummy.blogspot.com But how do we _know_ that nobody ever said on their deathbed that they wished they'd spent more time at the office? |
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"Cathy Weeks" ) writes:
FWIW it's *generally* only reversable for a relatively short period of time. Eventually the man's body makes antibodies against the sperm and kills it, and when the antibody production starts it doesn't stop, and even if it's reversed, his own body still produces the antibodies, and kills off the sperm before it can leave his body. I'm not sure if this is true, but I've also read that the man can suffer autoimmune diseases. After he begins to make antibodies against his own sperm, sometimes the antibodies attack other parts of his body. |
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"Circe" ) writes:
Well, there's "force" and there's "force". Telling your spouse you're not going to have sex with him/her any more until he/she does X is a form of coercion, and anyone who thinks otherwise is fooling herself. So -- how does this work the other way around? If she mentions the idea of a vasectomy and he says he's not willing to do that -- isn't he coercing her just as much? I think there's an important subtle difference between "I'm not going to have sex until you have a V" and "I'm sorry, but I'm not willing to take pills (or etc.) any more and I don't want more children, either." |
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