Melissa N

Woman wants a teapot. Man gets her a teapot for Christmas. A year later, man accidentally breaks teapot. To replace it, he gets her an identical one, for her birthday.

I haven't been able to feel safe enough to ask any person that I know in the flesh this, so here I am looking for support in the anonymous cyber world...

I'm 25 - I've been in a monogamous heterosexual relationship for over 6 years now, and we have two beautiful children together. I stayed at home with my kids and lived a pretty isolated life until I went back to school this September and NOW...

I'm finding myself with a crush on one of my female classmates. Its really messing with me! I wouldn't act on it but the fact that I'm feeling this way, when I'm in a relationship (not to mention the implications it brings in because she's not a man...) is really messing wiht my head. I plan to sit back and see if it goes away...but realistically, I wanted to ask the lesbians out there - - how often do straight girls get crushes on you/experiment with you/etc and go back to being straight? I just dont understand the blurred lines here....I've always thought about women "like that" a bit, but never had the opportunity before I got into a relatinoship to experiment...

I have had one positive pregnancy test and three negative ones and am trying to figure out, before I just go to get bloodwork, whether or not I actually am or am not pregnant. How many weeks are you, and can you feel your uterus? I expect that if I am pregnant, I am probably around 12-16 weeks.

Nothing has actually happened to it, it just died. I only bought it in July. I have tried resetting it. Any suggestions? I cna't find info on the apple site, and they want $30 just to ask for help!

My mother had a heart attack at 40 and at 45 is having major complicatoins again with it. I am concerned that this might be related to artery/blood flow and am wondering if anyone knows anything about this. My doctor is far away and I can't see her right away. I am only 24, so I'd like to assume that it doesn't have to do with heart health, but if anyone has any ideas I'd be happy to hear them. The pinkie on my left hand occasionally goes numb as well.

I have a good handle on DNA but haven't been able to find any info in the text, or helpful info online, about what exactly a 'terminal carbon' is. How do I establish the terminal carbon of a 3' to 5' DNA strand?

I am trying to figure out a way to deal with this problem while still being respectful to my daughter, so please be respectful with your answers.

Our daughter turned 4 in August, and has coslept her entire life, despite our attempts to give her a bed and have her sleep in it. She now has her own bed, which is a double size bed. She got it when she was 2, and it used to live in our bedroom until this past winter when she was 3.5 when we moved it into her own room because her baby brother's night wakings were waking her up. She always comes into bed with us very early on in the night, Im talking sometimes before we even go to bed, and is not what we would call a respectful cosleeper. She talks so loud that everybody wakes up, she digs limbs and toenails into my body, she yells when she wakes up (not a night terror thing but a "Noooo I dont want to wake up!" sort of thing), and flip flops and turns until she inevitably wakes my 9 month old son up EVERY TIME.

To combat this in the present, we have finally managed for the last week to get her to at least stop demanding sippy cups and bananas in the middle of the night (a habit that got established last year when I was pregnant, she was 3, and I needed to stop breastfeeding her). She is a very, very spirited child and very resistant to change, but we have managed at this point to stop her from consuming anything other than water in the middle of the night, and now my husband sleeps in bed with her to keep her in her own room until the morning comes and she is allowed to join me and her brother in 'the big bed'. So,yes, we have made some progress, but we are far from being where we want to be and nothing, NOTHING seems to be convincing her that sleeping through the night in her own bed by herself is a reasonable option. She justifies herself quite effectively : Mommy doesn't have to sleep alone, her brother doesn' thave to sleep alone, daddy doesn't have to sleep alone, nannie and pappie don't have to sleep alone: why do I?

My mother just had her over for a sleepover and said she forced herself to stay awake with my mother in the middle of the night when she woke up becuase she knew that if she fell asleep my mom would leave. And when my husband is away overnight (which he frequently is, given that he is a musician), I get the same story of my last 4 years of night waking that begins around 11pm, and continues every 2 hours until morning, which gets progressively worse when her brother wakes to nurse and I have to stop cuddling her to tend to him.

Please, somebody tell me that I am not crazy for being tired of this!!! I am not handling 100% of it now, for the first time in her life, which just started in September, but he is still away at least one night a week so it is still something I have to deal with regularly - and between my son's night nursings and teething which have him up regularly twice a night (and sometimes much, much, much more) and her antics, Im going out of my mind!

Help!!!!!

I have tried rubbing his tummy and giving him extra water, taking him outside and moving him around more to get things moving but it has been 2 weeks now. What is safe for babies this age? He is not crying all the time or anything, although he's also not been as easy as he was his first 3.5-4 months.

How does that help treatment development? What can they DO about it?

I'm trying to find a website or program where I can view 3-d images of a few simple molecules. I was sent to mdl chime but its not compatible for macs. I've been looking at JMOL but I can't seem to figure out how to find just a "glucose" molecule. I'm new to this! What the heck do I do???

I'm very new to the world of Macs, and I'm just trying to figure out how to create simple folders to store my word files. It was as easy as a right click with my pc....but this is a one-button mouse!

I dont have a book on natural family planning to look this up, but how does the cervical fluild change after ovulation, and is it any different if a conception has occurred?

I found this amazing and confidence inspiritng youtube video about it. VBAC (Vaginal Birth After Cesarean) and HBAC (Homebirth after cesarean). What do you think of the video?

Question CPD

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=roFVkDV45MM

My two year old has behavior issues. They only seem to be with me, and sometimes daddy - she behaves great for everyone else. I've tried isolating her from the situation, talking with her, asking her to stop, bribing (i'll take this way if you ____), etc etc - nothing is working. I'm going mad! GENTLE ideas only...I am not and never will be a spanker

Any tips? I want to do it but have never tried....dye types? Techniques?

What was the funniest thing your child ever said to you?

Mine said (after 4 months of trying to conceive)

"Oh.....that's nice."

*JAW DROPPED TO FLOOR*

That's it?!? *grin*

I have a 9 month old now and though we'd like to wait a while, sometimes I get intimidated at the thought of having a baby while I'm taking care of an older child! We plan on homeschooling and I just find myself thinking - I won't be able to nap when the next baby is napping, I wont be able to do...a lot of things! How much harder is it, for parents of two kids or more!