September 2009 Weddings
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Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
If you have questions about this, please email help@theknot.com.
Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Seven Things You're Doing Wrong
For some Tuesday morning reading (at least for those of you who won't see this until tomorrow morning):
http://www.cracked.com/article_19121_7-basic-things-you-wont-believe-youre-all-doing-wrong.html
Thoughts? Seems to be fairly valid stuff. Well, I can't vouch for #7 and a few others (I am not going to limit my showers to once a week...ew), but I'm definitely on board with alternate positions for giving birth.
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Re: Seven Things You're Doing Wrong
updated 10.03.12
Yeah, I suck at all of these.
Do you think the public toilet seat squat/hover is effective? Also, I wonder if the don't brush after meals rule is the same as brushing after throwing up. You always hear doctors tell pregnant women to brush each time they throw up. I wonder if that does more harm than good. Maybe just a nice rinse instead? Hmmm
Actually, a rinse probably would be better, I'm guessing. Since stomach acid can eat at your teeth and if brushing aggravates that, brushing right after puking could be harmful I suppose. I've used just mouthwash after puking before but only because brushing made me feel like throwing up again.
The toothbrushing one is sadly true.
If you don't have access to a mouth rinse, chewing gum (with xylitol, a natural sweetener in some gums that actually may prevent and reverse decay) or nibbling some cheese would be better. You should wait an hour to brush after a meal or drinking anything acidic, like diet soda, tea or wine. You can also try one of the many enamel-strengthening toothpastes that are out now. But again, wait an hour.
Hey, for once in my life I'm actually doing more right than wrong! I breathe right, I sleep right, I brush my teeth right, and I bathe right!
As gross as it sounds, I only full-on shower once or twice a week. Mostly because I've learned that showering/washing my hair every day makes my hair impossible to manage. So I shower only when absolutely necessary; on the inbetween days I do use a sensitive soap on bodily areas that tend to gather unpleasant aromas daily. So I'm clean and I don't stink.
As for #7; I've done the correct way while in the woods hours from a real WC....there's no way that's better for your body. They can do all the studies they want but from personal experience, I'd like to sit, thank you.
I know I sit, breathe, sleep, poop, brush my teeth wrong.
Haven't had children but have done research and would definitely give birth in a squatting position.
Showering is true as well, I don't know how or why people think taking one or two showers a day is good. For me, it makes my skin drier and flakier and my hair nutrient-less and frizzy. How is that pretty? If I'm basically clean, there's no way I'm hopping in there every day.