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  1. :iagree: The pill has caused problems in both me and my mother. With that sort of family history I plan to make dd well aware of the likelihood that it would be a bad idea for her but not all families discuss that sort of thing. Also my mother told me and I did not want to listen. At least when dd is still a minor I should be able to make the doctor aware of family history.

     

    I think that the important thing here is to make dd aware of family history.

     

    And whatever the side effects for Plan B they're fewer than those of pregnancy.

     

    Seriously. Cause the side effects of pregnancy can include nausea, vomiting, heartburn, constipation, fatigue, high blood pressure, childbirth...

  2. As someone who is firmly pro-life, I think this might actually be a fabulous idea. We can debate about when life starts, but Plan B is designed to do what birth control pills do, so it's not any closer to abortion than b.c. pills are;

     

    http://www.planbonestep.com/about-plan-b-one-step.aspx

     

    As someone who had a baby at 16, despite being a parent who wants to know what's going on with my children, I do not think that teenage girls should feel like they have to go through their parents to get access to birth control. They may not legally be adults, but they are young women and if they are going to be sexually active, they need options for protecting themselves against a pregnancy they aren't ready for.

  3. We moved to Lebanon, Oregon after having lived in Baltimore, Maryland and Syracuse, New York. We LOVE Oregon. Love it.

     

    Things we love:

     

    - the scenery, mountains, fields...

    - farmer's markets, so many farmer's markets

    - 4-H for the kids. Our kids do Legos, art and science through 4-H for only $34/year for the whole family

    - midwives!

    - not nearly as cold in the winter as NY was

    - health food stores, co-ops

    - charter schools (we homeschool through a charter school that lets us pick our own curriculum)

    - we're only an hour and a half from the coast

    - great thrift stores

  4. We have four children homeschooling this year and the last couple weekends, I've been feeling like the planning takes forever.

     

    My plan for organizing their lessons this year has been to have a composition notebook for each child and write out their assignments for each day. Turns out, going through and doing a week of planning for four children individually takes time.

     

    How long does your lesson planning take? When do you do it? How far in advance do you plan?

  5. It's not uncommon for the cervix to swell and the nurses did the right thing to take care of it. I would try not to stress about avoiding it the next time. It's not a complication unless you are pushing with a swollen cervix.

     

    Don't allow you labor to be artificially started earlier than 41 weeks.

     

    Typically, this would make sense, but since the OP is diabetic, it needs to be a decision she and her doctor/midwife make together.

  6. Looking for suggestions for (secular) things to spend our charter school funds on.

     

    My kids are in K, 1st, 4th and 6th grades. We're doing early modern times (SOTW 3) for history and earth science/astronomy for history. The kids are doing Latin and Spanish. We have math and lang. arts pretty well covered.

     

    Any ideas for history, science, language add-ons? Games, videos, activity kits, etc?

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