I am midway through week 14 of my pregnancy and I am finally feeling good! Sometimes I forget I am even pregnant, but then I look down and see the noticeable belly bump that has already formed. My husband laughed at me yesterday when he noticed I was wearing maternity jeans. He said “pregnant jeans already?”. We’ve had a lot of stuff going on around here lately with a kitchen remodel and my...

I recently received the Intelligender Gender Prediction Test in the mail. It is a simple urine test that apparently detects with 90% accuracy the gender of your baby as early as 10 weeks pregnant. I took the first test probably a few days shy of 10 weeks and the results were a bit ambiguous. I could not tell if my urine matched the boy or the girl side. I spoke with the moms of Intelligender and they were nice...

Another study has come out that spanking has harmful side effects. I am just going to paste the whole thing here. (emphasis mine) Researchers have uncovered another damaging consequence of spanking: risky sexual behaviors, or even sexual deviancy, when the child grows up. “This adds one more harmful side effect to spanking,” said Murray Straus, a spanking expert who was expected to present the findings...