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Post by aussiemama on Dec 4, 2009 9:30:28 GMT -5
I can't help but notice that a lot of these people with fifteen or so kids are richer than most of us are...
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 8, 2009 9:46:17 GMT -5
I know a lot of quiverfull women who will try to pretend they are so happy, and they'll tell you so, yet they all look extremely miserable, hardly ever smile, and they bully other women. I think they bully other women to make up for the lack of any kind of control they have in their marriages.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 7, 2009 11:50:48 GMT -5
Thank-you Amanda, it's weird what people believe about home birthing and midwives.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 6, 2009 17:40:46 GMT -5
Jadehawk, do you have any legitimate evidence that assisted home birth is any more dangerous than hospital birth, or are you just parroting what doctors tell you?
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 6, 2009 16:38:28 GMT -5
The one thing I hate is how home birthing is discounted. It may not be for everyone, but some of us are responsible home birthers who employ LICENSED midwives and have wonderful births. I just wish it weren't bashed quite so much, because it seems like most of you would love to make it illegal you talk about it with such hatred.
My last home birth was an UNplanned unassisted home birth. We had a midwife, we were getting treatment, and I was even in the hospital twice when my pregnancy turned high risk. In the end the doctor at the hospital who was foreign, told me it was ok to go home and try to have the baby when he was ready. When he finally came, I was in labour less than four hours, and I delivered the baby myself because the midwife was still on her way and was about 15 minutes from my house. She arrived in time to deliver the placenta. My baby was ten pounds.
However I do think there is a difference between those of us that employ midwives and those that have totally unassisted births.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 5, 2009 14:32:40 GMT -5
Every time I talked about things that were wrong within my family to somebody else, I was told that I was in a "good family, and they would never do that". Nobody would listen to me.
I know the feelings.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 2, 2009 11:32:33 GMT -5
HAHA yep.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 2, 2009 9:49:33 GMT -5
Ugh. Didn't he have any respect for you? I understand guys wanting to play, but enough is enough.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 2, 2009 9:23:11 GMT -5
You go girl! That's awesome I wish we could see more of that.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 2, 2009 9:19:30 GMT -5
My butt is bigger now after 3 babies. In fact, when I go to Walmart to buy underwear, they think I'm a plus size. The ONLY problem I have with that is, I'm 24. I don't like to wear granny panties, but that's all that's available in my size. We can't afford for me to go to a special store and buy fancy panties. What's a woman to do? My husband says the granny panties are cute but I do not believe him and they are uncomfortable.
Why does Walmart assume that women with bigger butts only want to wear granny panties. Now granted, nobody but my husband can see them, but I know they are there and I feel like I'd feel more confident in myself with regular underwear.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 2, 2009 8:54:12 GMT -5
I LOVE the comment about "if you can't lose it, decorate it!" How awesome. Quite often I get to feeling a little depressed about my body. When I got married 3 years ago, I was a size 8 or 10 and my body had a very different shape. Now, I've had 3 children in that time, and my body isn't like that anymore. My breasts are saggy (gotta love push up bras...*I* like them), and I have a big flabby belly, and I'm a size 14/16. Actually to tell the truth, I LOVE my new clothing size because I honestly believe I am a healthier size now. When I was a size 8 I was too skinny and unhealthy. My husband likes my new curves very much. I am getting used to them and learning to accent them. I believe in dressing modestly, and I am skirts only by my own personal choice, but I don't believe in sack dresses. I buy trendy, fashionable skirts and shirts to show off what I want to show off and minimize what I'm not so happy about. By the way, this is the first time, pretty much in my whole life, that I am happy about my clothes and how they look on me. I believe clothing is an expression of who we are. My husband is glad that I am feeling freedom of expression in this area (he's the one paying for them, I'm a stay at home mom lol). While I believe in covering up, I also believe in accenting. I like long hair too and think it suits me better than short, but it's looking shaggy right now and I can't afford a trim. Some time soon I hope. I am getting used to my new body and embracing it because I know I'm so much healthier and now look like a woman, not a teenager. However, I'm 24, most of the girls I know don't have a mama body yet.
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Post by aussiemama on Nov 2, 2009 5:24:57 GMT -5
It made me so mad that he couldn't tell what I was doing. I was so frustrated that it wasn't working and that he didn't like it. According to the book, he was supposed to like it! Most of my friends read the Pearls, their husbands think it is a great book.
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Post by aussiemama on Oct 27, 2009 17:44:15 GMT -5
I would love to have a thing called "Hall of Shame" for those of us that used to be quiverfull and wrote articles about it. You could volunteer some pieces of work that you wanted to submit, work like what features in Vyckies "Tour de Crap" and then when the "Hall of Shame" is put up, people can vote on the worst piece of crap.
What do you guys think?
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Post by aussiemama on Oct 27, 2009 15:17:11 GMT -5
I would love to know how and when you became involved in the Hare Krishna movement since from what I can read, your mom was against it and you were really young.
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Post by aussiemama on Oct 27, 2009 14:57:53 GMT -5
We need a coffee shop booth where we can hang out and chat. I'll man that if you want.
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Post by aussiemama on Oct 27, 2009 14:52:54 GMT -5
If you raise a certain amount of money, you could tell us about Angel's time at the Campbell's as a reward. I'm very interested and so are a lot of people it seems. LOL.
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Post by aussiemama on Oct 26, 2009 10:12:29 GMT -5
Arietty, I love what you said about clothing and identity. For me it's also important that *I* think I look beautiful. If I don't feel beautiful myself, it doesn't matter who tells me I am, including my husband.
I choose to wear only skirts and dresses, but that's just it, it was my CHOICE. And I don't think it's wrong for women and girls to wear pants, it's just not something I choose to do. My husband wouldn't care if I wore pants, but he's very happy with the skirts and dresses.
I still change certain items of clothing every so often as I still am trying to figure out exactly who I am.
Erika I can relate to how you feel, when I was growing up my father told me I looked ridiculous in certain items of clothing and was therefore told I could only wear certain things, mostly jeans. I still don't care for jeans to this day lol. He told me that I'd never get a boyfriend because I had chosen to grow out my bangs and he said it was "ugly".
We have decided on a few basic rules for clothing in our family and then that our children ought to be allowed freedom of expression within those rules, even if we don't like that expression of trying to figure out who they are.
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