This is Why All American Mothers Are Crazy

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Noooooo–they’ve come for the potato salad, too?
I follow the Epicurious website. The did a study and actually found that the acidity in mayo kills many food borne germs.

If you make your own potato salad and it isn’t from a deli case, it should be good.

I make potato salad with olive oil, vinegar, salt, pepper and Italian spices. That might be a good option for those worried about mayo.

My oldest son was born with a number of congenital birth defects, that don’t seem related at all, and most of them we learned about when they presented themselves as a problem. His ruptured AVM being the worst case scenario, poor kid.

I’ve been wondering what I did wrong. I know I kept alternating between yeast infections and UTI’s. I took the Pill, but I followed doctors advice for stopping and waiting a month before TTC. Oh, I used to love cashews while pregnant and had a can in my desk at work at all times. Then I learned that cashews have natural hormones in it. (or not :confused:) Or maybe too many tomato sauce cans.

I know. I’m not logical. I just wonder what could have caused the problems…
 
Which is precisely why I have continued to suffer through severe nausea through most of every pregnancy. I have heard enough horror stories. I would rather deal with nausea and vomiting for 20-30 weeks than cause irreparable damage to my baby.

If I had a severe case of hyperemesis gravidarium, it would be a different decision. As it is, I am just miserable, but my baby is healthy.
My son has nausea and dizziness due to his brain injury. When he’s tired it’s similar to the feeling of being hungover. 😦

It’s been hard trying to find him something safe. He takes meclizine, which is a motion sickness medicine.

He’s tried a number of things. Dramamine makes a natural pill that is made of just ginger. He’s tried that a number of times.

I sympathize with the sickness. Hope it gets better.:hug1:
 
Concerning mommy wars, I generally just pretend like Woodstock and fly through a haze.

I’ve seriously contemplated converting the diaper-age wardrobe to unisex tunics though. I figure people back in the day had that part figured out with constant cloth diapering. I have yet to see anyone do that in America, so maybe I can be the eccentric trailblazer there. Very egalitarian, too. ;). May be ideologically tres chic. Lol.
 
At this point, I’m surprised oxygen hasn’t been deemed hazardous during pregnancy.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they did. Oxygen is a highly corrosive element after all. Hence the need for anti-oxidants.
 
I just had my third bout with vertigo in about 6 years, was pretty miserable until I remembered to take ginger. There is encapsulated ginger that you can get OTC but I love candied ginger so I just made a batch out of about 2 pounds and ate 5 or 6 coins a day, after about 4 days the vertigo was gone. One MUST drink more water while doing this or will end up with a UTI. Also if you are doing this as an “older” ahem, woman, increase your facial moisturizer!
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OPPS! just finished reading your post, got so caught up in thinking I had a good remedy that I jumped the gun. Hope the meclizine works for him, it puts me to sleep for hours at a time and doesn’t wear off for a couple of days.
My son has nausea and dizziness due to his brain injury. When he’s tired it’s similar to the feeling of being hungover. 😦

It’s been hard trying to find him something safe. He takes meclizine, which is a motion sickness medicine.

He’s tried a number of things. Dramamine makes a natural pill that is made of just ginger. He’s tried that a number of times.

I sympathize with the sickness. Hope it gets better.:hug1:
 
Psssst, if you’ve still got the gorgeous satin and lace baptismal gown, Baby Boy can wear it, too. We have a couple of family baptismal gowns we’ve been using and reusing, and no little suit in sight.

forums.catholic-questions.org/showthread.php?t=296462

Remember, in ye goode olde dayes, small boys wore dresses. Check out the photo gallery here:

smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-did-girls-start-wearing-pink-1370097/
😊 all three of my kids wore the same gown. Two boys and a girl…
My nephew wore one too. It’s just what people did.
 
😊 all three of my kids wore the same gown. Two boys and a girl…
My nephew wore one too. It’s just what people did.
My three boys wore the same baptismal outfit their father did. 😊 Not a gown, but a wool onesie with sweater and lacy bonnet. (There were matching shoes, but we never figured out how to get those to stay on their feet, so they are all happily waving bare feet in the pictures).

I do like gowns, and after this latest baptism we decided that the outfit needs to retire…so, if we have any more, baby will wear a gown even if he’s a boy. But maybe I’ll just get a not-so-ruffly one (and probably use it for any sisters, too. :D)
 
My three boys wore the same baptismal outfit their father did. 😊 Not a gown, but a wool onesie with sweater and lacy bonnet. (There were matching shoes, but we never figured out how to get those to stay on their feet, so they are all happily waving bare feet in the pictures).

I do like gowns, and after this latest baptism we decided that the outfit needs to retire…so, if we have any more, baby will wear a gown even if he’s a boy. But maybe I’ll just get a not-so-ruffly one (and probably use it for any sisters, too. :D)
My mom made the gown of my design. White batiste fabric dress with a little tank top style slip underneath, as that type of fabric is thin. The gown has short sleeves, a yoked front with a rounded Peter Pan collar. One button in the back. The only decorative element is a piece of crocheted lace from an aunts dress when she was about 4 years old, so that was from about 1899.:). It was added to the bottom of the gown and the gown was about 30 inches long or so. Which means the lace was nowhere near the boy’s faces. 😉

My sisters and I were all baptized in the same gown my father wore, so it was 50 years old when I wore it!
 
My mom made the gown of my design. White batiste fabric dress with a little tank top style slip underneath, as that type of fabric is thin. The gown has short sleeves, a yoked front with a rounded Peter Pan collar. One button in the back. The only decorative element is a piece of crocheted lace from an aunts dress when she was about 4 years old, so that was from about 1899.:). It was added to the bottom of the gown and the gown was about 30 inches long or so. Which means the lace was nowhere near the boy’s faces. 😉

My sisters and I were all baptized in the same gown my father wore, so it was 50 years old when I wore it!
Wow!

Though now I think about it, I think we have my mother in law’s baptismal gown…I think it was made from her mother’s wedding dress. Will have to check on lace in case we have another boy, though. 😉

(This is not an announcement. :p)
 
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