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A clarification of "cows"
Just to allay the fears of those skinny witches on here, the term "old cow" came from a lovely 19-year-old (she claimed, likely younger) member many moons ago who dubbed some of us old cows for having the audacity to advise her maybe she should wait a while before TTC. Seems around that time we were having an influx of members coming on in horrible financial positions and fledgling relationships wanting to conceive. So for our efforts in advising that they wait until they were more stable, ie had a job, insurance, a committed relationship, sobriety, etc we were dubbed Old Cows.
At the time, I was 26 or 27, not old by anyone's standards and I was markedly thinner :-) Not that I think I am necessarily a heifer now, but you know what I mean.
So there it is. That does not mean you have to believe the same. It is just the story of the cows title.
At the time, I was 26 or 27, not old by anyone's standards and I was markedly thinner :-) Not that I think I am necessarily a heifer now, but you know what I mean.
So there it is. That does not mean you have to believe the same. It is just the story of the cows title.
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The previous post is not meant to imply that any members here who happen to post on the pregnancy forum do not give good or accurate advice.
The previous post is not meant to imply that any members here who happen to post on the pregnancy forum do not give good or accurate advice.
what I find to be very interesting is the difference between the M&C forum, and the pregnancy forum. Some people post the same question on both, and they get VERY different responses. The pregnancy forum seems to be about sugarcoating and assuring everyone that mommy always knows what's best for her baby, even if it goes against current AAP recommendations. Posters on M&C are more likely to be a bit more straighforward.
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Oh, another one we are having a run on in Maternal & Child is people complaining that their ultrasound shows a pregnancy of some length and they are certain it is a different length. We didn't used to get those at all, and now we have several.
"Seems around that time we were having an influx of members coming on in horrible financial positions and fledgling relationships wanting to conceive." Andi, you think that has changed? LOL
One thing I notice in Maternal & Child is that, besides the perennial favorites, "Am I pregnate," and "Who is the father," we go through lots of the same question for a while, like weeks and weeks, and then begin to go through lots of some different question and the old one is not seen for a while. Lately, it's been "Can the Magic Fairy come and untie my tubes because I've now met the love of my life but I don't have any money," but we have not seen, for example, so many miscarriage posts (we used to get two or three in a row from different posters that would all be about miscarrying at 7 weeks.) Haven't seen any faked multiple pregnancies, nor "I took [dangerous substance] and now I wonder if I damaged the baby," nor defenses of being an unmarried mom; have not seen any vaccines-are-bad posts for a long time, nor arguments about circumcision. (Not even that many "can I get pregnant after ablation" posts, though there have been a few.) I'm sure they will come up again -- maybe the miscarriage posters are all going to the Miscarriage forum now but the others will be bound to show up sooner or later.
I would sure be happy if they would create an "Am I Pregnant?" forum and allow us to move all such queries straight to there.
One thing I notice in Maternal & Child is that, besides the perennial favorites, "Am I pregnate," and "Who is the father," we go through lots of the same question for a while, like weeks and weeks, and then begin to go through lots of some different question and the old one is not seen for a while. Lately, it's been "Can the Magic Fairy come and untie my tubes because I've now met the love of my life but I don't have any money," but we have not seen, for example, so many miscarriage posts (we used to get two or three in a row from different posters that would all be about miscarrying at 7 weeks.) Haven't seen any faked multiple pregnancies, nor "I took [dangerous substance] and now I wonder if I damaged the baby," nor defenses of being an unmarried mom; have not seen any vaccines-are-bad posts for a long time, nor arguments about circumcision. (Not even that many "can I get pregnant after ablation" posts, though there have been a few.) I'm sure they will come up again -- maybe the miscarriage posters are all going to the Miscarriage forum now but the others will be bound to show up sooner or later.
I would sure be happy if they would create an "Am I Pregnant?" forum and allow us to move all such queries straight to there.
took me a while to appreciate the wisdom of the old cows. When I first joined MH, I was slightly scandalized by the blatant truth thrown out there. I got over that very quickly :)
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