Military Nesties
Dear Community,
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.
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Thank you.
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.
Re: Wanna read something that will tick you off? (pr)
Honestly, the military is the first time I saw people having kids so young, especially on purpose. I literally have 1 friend from high school who had a kid before 30. I have 2 other acquaintances with very young children. That's it. Everyone else I know with kids/pregnant is from the military or college, and they all waited till around 30.
Sure, stereotyping is ridiculous, and I don't think the military demographic is that different than the average American, but it was my first exposure to "average".
Also, during my first foray to this board, years ago, there was a woman saying she needed wic b/c cable was the only thing that got her through boring days in Japan. There was more flameful than that, and we all know I'm a skittle loving liberal. At the time, I was also living in Japan, in a city of 40k, and she was in a city of millions, an hour train ride from Tokyo, my favorite city in the world, and I was many many hours (and $$$$$) from it. I was flipping pissed about that.
Photo bomb, yeah!
That would be so frustrating. 12 and 13!? It's like no one is teaching these girls wtf comes after their first period. Obviously just telling kids NOT TO DO IT and not educating them is working.
How the heck does the baby fit through the pelvis?
How do they stay calm enough and not panic/have their mother hold them through giving birth? 12, PEOPLE!?
When I was delivering my second baby, my nurse was also working with a 14 yr old who was in labor. She kept coming in so upset because the girls mom refused to allow her to get an epidural because she wanted her to feel the pain thinking it would keep her from getting pregnant again. You could hear the girl crying, screaming and begging for the drugs. It was terrible.