Wow. Someone is looking out for you, I feel. Accidental scan. [emoji173]

Here's a picture of a baby manatee that swam right up to our kayak. In Chassahowitzka springs

I hated tofu the first few years I was veg. Then I learned how to flavor it! We use it in stir fries, soups, fried in strips on a sandwich, scrambled, so many ways!

Something fungal, it sounds like. No fever?

Tampa and St Pete I love, Lakeland not so much, but it's close enough to Tampa and Orlando. Housing is pretty cheap, though rentals are higher than they should be. There is tons of golf in Lakeland, and fishing. Tampa has a great aquarium, Busch Gardens, Lowry Park Zoo, Museum of Science and Industry, the U of S Florida (I think there may be a Lakeland campus?), Florida Orchestra, Tampa Art museum, and lots of art, music, and theatre at the university. Sports include NFL TB Buccaneers, NHL YB Lightning, NBA TB Rays. Orlando has the basketball, Lol. St Petersburg has a cool and growing downtown. Very artsy, new places springing up all the time. The Dali Museum is world class. The beaches are the best. Warm baby powder sand, (safe for kids) easy little waves in the gulf, beaches you can walk for miles. Weather--gorgeous half the year, hot and humid with afternoon spectacular lightning storms all summer. Beautiful water birds, palm trees, alligators (no worries), huge roaches (not hard to keep away, not as wily as the little ones go north), and this time of year, gorgeous flowering trees. In Lakeland you'll find some rednecks, some transplanted northerners, some retirees, and just regular people. Don't fear the rednecks, for if a tree comes down blocking your driveway, they'll just show up with a truck and some chainsaws and get it out of the way for you. And clean up afterward, then they're on to the next job. (True story, happened to my cousin after a storm). Speaking of storms, you're inland in Lakeland, so if a big hurricane hits there, it'll be a wind event. I don't remember Lakeland ever taking a hit. People say the Tampa Bay area has some kind of mystical protection from a direct hit, bit I suspect it's the geography of the place. Anyway, I recommend Florida except for the public schools. I mostly homeschooled, dd went to public high school for the last 3 years, ds was hs. Homeschool community was great back then, but I've been out of the loop for years. M

I agree with the contagion--it's like suicide in that way. I suspect that the uptick in the arrests and reporting of threats since the Florida shooting is due partly to the attention paid to this. If someone has been nervous about a kid's behavior, they are reporting it now. If a kid sees a rifle in the backseat of a car in the school lot, he's reporting it. In the weeks after Columbine, my daughter's large high school had dozens of bomb threats and shooting threats. The kids got "used to" being hustled to the athletic fields and standing there for hours.

Yes I think you should be able to go to the front of the line at Disney.

You could maybe use a push wheelchair? And those spray bottles with plastic fans on them work pretty well for Disney heat, and they are fun as well.

It's not about the insurance, it's about the push back on narcotics.

I haven't read the thread here yet, but I have to answer how appalled I am. I know it's the weekend, but call the dentist, call the doctor who prescribed the tramadol. They can override the pharmacist. I don't know what is going on with pharmacists these days, but our doctors' offices get calls from pharmacists "checking on prescriptions" written BY OBSTETRICIANS for pregnant women. They even call about prenatal vitamins. "She is pregnant, so we are checking to see if the MD knew this when he prescribed." YES, HE IS AN OB, and these are prenatal vitamins, give the woman her vitamins, (or Macrobid or whatever idiocy you are calling about)!

Birthing was taken from midwives years ago, and male doctors began delivering babies. There is a lot of money in maternity care and birthing.

It's already been said :)

Most insurers cover the test for women who will be 35 or older at the baby's due date, or who have a history of Downs in the family of either parent. The test is called NIPT and can be done any time after 10 weeks gestation. Counsyl and Natera have decent self-pay amounts if insurance doesn't cover. Counsyl's is about $300.

I work at a hospital in which midwives deliver most of the babies. We have a relatively low c section rate, and very very low episiotomy rate.

This is the only one I can use now. I used to be able to use the wonderful pink and green Maybelline, but now, oh my eyes.

I have put sugar in the mouth of a passed out older lady on the floor of a grocery store, and boy did I get looks when she jumped right up :D

That's interesting. My state has primaries for party members only, so I change my registration to Democratic or Republican, depending upon which primary I want to participate in.

What a crappy handling of GDM. Did they not have you show them a log of your readings? Were you on diabetes meds?

I agree 100%. It's Us vs Them on virtually any topic brought up, it seems.

And sometimes there's a $15 off a $75 WF purchase coupon online!

Is she dehydrated? (Dark scant urine, circles around eyes, sunken looking, skin on back of hand "tents" when pinched and stays tented.) That is a low level. If she can eat, try to get a little protein in her. Peanut butter on a whole wheat cracker or toast maybe? The sugar will raise her blood glucose temporarily, but it can cause a crash back down. The protein keeps it more stable.

Ummm can't resist here, so inappropriate, but in medical charting, we are careful how we word something that has pus in it...as an adjective...

I loved sonlight when I did it with my two kids years ago. We used a combo of the library and buying used. A very few books we bought new. I was so happy when our local library rolled out online book reservations! We did some things in a different order due to a book not being available, but on the whole it was a good experience. Ds loved the science experiments, and dd loves to read so loved it all. They both enjoyed the biographies assigned. Just reminiscing, no real help here :)

I would do a yelp review and put that in there. What a money grubber.

And here is some yum https://www.buzzfeed.com/deenashanker/vegan-breakfasts?utm_term=.rq3GZ9gLk#.fyxMPKLWw