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17 hours ago, Melissa Louise said:
I don't even find underwire uncomfortable. Idk. Maybe I just wear really good bras?
I think, sitting here in a sleep bra and paying attn to what I like about it, and I think it's the feeling of slight pressure? holding? Anyway, some sensory thing, just in the opposite direction.
Or you are one of the lucky few that the root size of your bOOks (ie the size underwire you need) matches the cup size. There is an industry standard of what wire size goes with which cup size. The fact that people aren't made "standard" means that the underwires are often really uncomfortable for a lot of people. I can buy a really good bra, spend a lot of money on one, and it wont fix the fact that I need an underwire for a bra cup 3 sizes bigger than what I the standard says my cup size requires. Some people need a wire that is smaller than what the industry standard says for their cup size. Then there is the width between the bOOks. It is often hard to find one that fits that area too unless you are in a happy medium. Most people are either closer together or a little further apart. This is more common than you think, people just don't know why it is that they are uncomfortable. They just know that they are and that they can get fitted many times, spend money on "good bras" and yet nothing feels good.
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14 hours ago, busymama7 said:
Bioidentical progesterone can change your life ladies. This is common but not heathy and can be treated. This is not standard gyn stuff though. They don't generally do it.
Agreed! I use this too. It helps a lot!
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I have this. It is anxiety. It sucks. You are right...it tarnishes the things you actually want to do. The only answer I have found, medication. I tried mindfulness, herbal stuff, talking about it. It didnt help. Medication plus any of these things is the only thing that works.
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This thread makes me think of the song "Wonderful" by Everclear. I think it does a pretty good job of expressing some of the feelings from a child's perspective when the family splits. It at least resonated with me and some of my feelings from my childhood.
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Oops wrong thread!
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2 hours ago, Elona said:
I have never heard of an abdominal migraine! That's a thing? I am off to Google to learn more. Thx for mentioning!
Yep it is a thing! Agreed on the Aleve, Advil was better than Tylenol in a pinch though. Like other people suggested, limited dairy and meat beforehand seemed to help it be less bad as well. I do think it was basically a hormone thing causing the migraines. I was checked for endometriosis and other things...I didn't have anything else going on. And I still have migraines today. They are worse now with perimenopause, but they aren't the abdominal kind anymore. The abdominal ones lessened as I reached my 20s and everything was better after my first child. Ive not had any abdominal kind since then.
Also, due to my family history of cancer...I never did any form BC, so I understand this aspect too.
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I had this too minus POTS. For me it was abdominal migraine caused by the hormones. The key was to get on top of the migraine before it caused faintness, throwing up, intense pain, and diarrhea. To do this charting is a must because painkillers had to be started before the migraine was coming. So I needed to know when the first day would be and start the painkiller the day before and then keep taking them every 6 hours like clockwork for the first two days. Once the pain was out of control, there was almost no way to go back and I had to just wait it out. When I went to the Dr all they offered was BCP.
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I also have a Mockmill, but I have the 200. I highly recommend Mockmills. The 100 is great if you have a smaller family and don't need to grind as much at one time. For a family that does large batches at a time, I would get the 200.
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My experience with bipolar family member is that there can be mixed states that are not as cut and dry as depression and mania. The best comparison I can give this is the mixed state (for this person) is a bit like PMS. He gets really irritable but is also motivated to do stuff and just wants people to get out of the way and leave him alone. When in this state he can be critical, cranky, and complaining. But he not just critical of others. That is what I have noticed that is different from the narcissist person in my life. The narcissistic person seems to just be very critical of others without self awareness that it is painful for the people around them or they know it and either don't care or are enjoying it... usually with the excuse that it is good for the person and they are "helping". In contrast, the bipolar person hears what they've said to the other person and they feel bad, but being unable to control the mood state, their guilty feelings cause them to be more irritable and upset. If they get stuck in this pattern for too long...they spiral out of the mixed state into a deep depression. So yes, in my experience, both the narcissistic person and the bipolar person can be very critical, the difference is how they feel about it themselves and also how self critical they are in addition to being critical of others. It is more about the intent and cause differences. The narcissistic person seems to do it to be in a position of control, power, or to be praised by others for "doing something" to "help" the person who has "not got it together". The bipolar person does it out of mental anguish and pain.
This is my experience having two very close people in my life with these conditions. Being in the position of caring for these people and dealing with their criticism, yes it is painful coming from either of them and has caused hurts. The difference is, I feel more able to have empathy and forgiveness toward the bipolar one since they are truly remorseful and do apologize when they are able and their apologies are sincere. The narcissistic person never apologizes ever and seem to think if there is a problem...it is always me that is or has the problem. They are always right.
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If you know what exactly your skin is unhappy with, you can use skinsafeproducts.com. I do not use make-up, so I cannot help you with that part. But we use this site for shampoo, conditioner, detergents and it is very very helpful in finding products that do not affect the skin so much.
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We have used both MCT and IEW with fixit among other things such as CLE LA.
I have 3 dyslexic sons. The oldest did fine learning grammar without MCT. However, we attempted W&R Fable after finishing WWE and it flopped. He needed the very structured form of writing instruction from IEW. Switching to IEW has really worked well for him. This son also tested borderline dysgraphic. The KWO in IEW seemed to really help him make forward progress in working through his difficulties with getting thoughts on paper.
My next son couldn't understand parts of speech after many different attempts over 3 years. We then got MCT and through the stories, the colored words, and the diagrams, it finally clicked for him. However, the writing portion was well beyond his ability. I tried to push through with the writing, I regret that! After trying to do writing for Island and half of Town, we switched to IEW for writing and that has been a really good fit. After he finished reading through MCT voyage level, I put him in CLE LA for grammar. This has worked well. He couldn't have done CLE if we had not done MCT first. We skip the writing portion of CLE and continue with IEW for writing.
My third son, who has the benefit of his older brothers being the guinea pigs, has been doing IEW from the beginning. I'm skipping all the writing portion of MCT and just reading it to him. He then does CLE (a grade behind) to practice the grammar and do spelling.
All 3 are still doing Fixit as well. It is so very quick, it doesn't add too much time to the lessons. I love that it is a good lesson in editing, but I feel that it is not 100% of the grammar instruction they need. It doesn't have diagramming for example. I also find that CLE has them apply the grammar instruction in the lesson. Fixit, to me, serves a different function so I just do both.
All that to say, MCT has been a wonderful grammar introduction and effective in solidifying parts of speech, parts of sentences, and how it all works to create thoughtful writing. However, the actual writing work was too much.
IEW has been great for breaking down writing and teaching it in a step by step reachable way. They still sometimes complain, and they still do not love writing, but they would agree that IEW has been the best thing for writing they have used.
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Im interested too!
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Just now, SusanC said:
Has anyone ever heard of what happens if these were allowed to incubate? I assume space restrictions would never let them be viable, but two teeny twin chicks would be so cute!
When my grandfather was young, one of his jobs was "candling" eggs before they were sent by train to grocery stores. He and the other boys would hold each one in front of a candle to see if there was an embryo inside. You could try that if you are worried about cracking an incubated egg.
It is very very very rare (ie nearly impossible) for a double yolk to actually be viable.
Yes you can candle eggs. If you see veining that would be an egg that was allowed to incubate. You can use a flashlight in a dark room. Just set the tip of the egg over the flashlight.
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My hens' eggs are fertile. If you have a rooster, most of the eggs will be fertile. Roosters are very...um...proficient at their job. As long as the farmer is taking the eggs every day, you wont really notice the difference. The problem comes when an egg has been allowed to incubate at all. That is when you will find a chick inside. So, it just depends on the farmers practices.
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Anadama Bread uses cornmeal if you like to bake.
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3 hours ago, happynurse said:
@bluemongooseThis is a very similar LA lineup to what I'm considering next year. Have you done this workload before? Is it pretty doable?
happynurse: I have done this workload this year with him and similar with his brothers as well. I use this partly because they have dyslexia and need a lot of review to remember things. I use Sequential as a quick spelling review daily (it has easier words than his CLE). MCT is great for introduction and review of Grammar terms. The story style and colors really work for the way his brain thinks. I also like the vocabulary and poetry books. However, I do not do the written work in MCT as that is too much of a challenge for him. I read MCT aloud to him. CLE is his basic grammar and spelling instruction. We skip the writing portions since we do writing with IEW. He does most of CLE independently. IEW works really well holding his hand and giving him more confidence in writing. IEW is a mix of together and independent work. FixIt we love because he can learn to look for errors without me nagging him about his own work, something he really needs help with as he makes a LOT of errors with his dyslexia. It is really helping him learn to double check his own work. We do Fix It together. He also has a lit book he reads that is tied to the era we are studying in history. That is done independently.
Our schedule looks like this:
Monday: MCT reading, Sequential, Fixit, KWO in IEW, CLE assignment, Lit reading
Tuesday: MCT reading, Sequential, Fix it, style work in IEW, CLE assignment, Lit reading
Wednesday: Sequential, Fix it, begin rough draft in IEW, CLE assignment, Lit reading
Thursday: Sequential, Fix it, finish up rough draft, type, turn it in for editing for IEW, CLE assignment, Lit reading
Friday: Sequential, fix any mistakes in rough draft and turn in final draft for IEW, CLE assignment, Lit readingAll of LA takes about 1-2 hours. It is closer to 2 on writing days, especially if he is struggling to write (often for him unfortunately).
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Math: CLE 5 with some extra C-rod work to help solidify things. We are dealing with some learning issues.
Language arts: CLE 4 skipping the writing, Sequential Spelling 2, IEW Ancients, and Fix it grammar 2. We also read through a little MCT.
History/Lit/Geo: TOG year 1 with SOTW 1 as a spine.
Science: first semester Botany. Combo of Quark, TGTB, and McHenry. Second semester begin Zoology with Quark, a few TGTB units, some lyrical science songs, maybe some crafty things from Getting Nerdy with Mel and Gerdy. Zoology will roll into the following year, so this is just the first half.
Foreign language: Getting Started with....Latin/Spanish
Music: Cello and Piano with some music theory. Hoping to get back to orchestra.
Art: Drawing with Mark Kistler and some Meet the Masters.
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Math: Saxon Algebra 2 (2nd half) then start Advanced Math
Science: Miller Levine Biology (Bumble bee cover)
History: Ancients with SWB's Ancient History as a spine
English: CLE LA, IEW C, Lit selections from WTM
Spanish 2 with Breaking the Spanish Barrier
Government: Notgrass
Logic: The Argument Builder
Music: Cello
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Math: AOPS Calculus-taking AP test
Science: AP Physics C using the Knight book
English: IEW Writing the Research Paper and Lit selections from WTM
History: Ancient History to Fall of Rome. Using the Ancient History book by SWB as the spine
French 2 with Breaking the French Barrier. She did 2 years of Spanish first and then switched to French
Music: Viola and Piano
Elective: Animal Science (think husbandry like AG classes, she has already done AP Bio) Her request. I am not sure how to title that on her transcript though.
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Love these threads...great for ideas!
My DS
Math-Saxon Algebra 2Science-2nd half of Conceptual Integrated Science
History/Lit/Geography-TOG Year 1 using Human Odyssey as a spine
Duolingo practice for Spanish and Latin
Writing: IEW Narnia 2
Grammar/Vocab: CLE LA 7 and Vocabulary from Classical Roots B
Art: Drawing with Mark Kistler and Meet the Masters
Music: Cello, Piano and music theory. Hopefully returning to orchestra as well.
Elective: chess club and possibly horse-riding lessons
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Can she lay down in a tub with her ears under the surface in the water? We did that once to get something out of the ears.
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Could it be something like encopresis? I thought of that since you said he deals with constipation.
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Thank you Home Again. I will look into the things you mentioned. Thank you for explaining things.
Kbutton. The auditory stuff seems to have resolved about a year and a half ago. His spelling is really good, and he hears me correctly when I dictate to him. I understand the auditory stuff as my middle son has a lot of trouble with auditory input. Working memory issues makes sense. My other son tested poorly with working memory. He also struggled with the step of long division, but not as long as this son has. Interesting that you said your son has great number sense but still has dyscalculia. I waffle back and forth between this just his (almost certainly) ADHD and dyslexia or is this dyscalculia. I do hope we can get our other child in a more stable situation so we can free up the funds soon.
Thanks for the help, guys! I really appreciate it.
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Any thoughts on running Gattegno alongside CLE as a way to review and solidify use of numbers/facts with Cuisenaire blocks? Would I start in book 1 for a 10-year-old?
What about bras?
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lol. I don't know about breast privilege...but yes, bras are one of the many things sold to women that are not designed well and make us feel badly when really it is not us, it is the bra. And yes, the band to cup ratio is also an issue. Really the whole way bras are sized is all shenanigans...sister sizes etc.