It is a pretty common assumption. But doesn't everyone know siblings less than (or close to) a year apart?? I don't get why people still assume it.
It's still reasonably effective, if you're exclusively BF and the kid's not on solids yet. I mean, it seriously lowers the chances of a knock up. Your OB/GYN, however, should give the warning that reasonably effective != a sure thing, and offer a progesterone only pill (to be taken at the same exact time every day) or suggest other, non-hormonal methods of control.
Hah! I had a dream last night that one of the bloggers I read had built a huge huge library similar to that, and had invited everyone who read him to come hang out in it, so I was wandering around and around through the many many rooms of this house full of books (it was less ornate, and fancy, but inspired by that library, apparently. In my dream.)
The cynical part of me says "They aren't getting past their prejudices because they've gotten to know Obama. They're getting past their prejudices because when somebody knows if it's the blue wire or the red wire to cut when disarming the bomb in the room, you don't give a rat's fuckhole what color they are."
And the cynical part of you is right a good percentage of the time -- but its going to be that much less likely for their kids to be absoluteists about race.
And its also interesting that their bone-deep racism is so easily shaken. The very fact that they think a black man
can
be the solution makes me doubt the sincerity of their bigotry.
Glowing jellyfish earns Nobel Prize
Shoot it turns out that the Nobel Prize was for the chemists how studied the glowing protein in the jellyfish instead of the jellyfish itself. Ok, still a cool discovery, but the article isn't as cool as the title implies.
Yeah, the Nobel Prize committee still has a bias against spineless organisms....
Yeah, the Nobel Prize committee still has a bias against spineless organisms....
And American authors.
In some cases, similar beings.
The glowing jellyfish need more funding to get their chemistry program recognized.
It's still reasonably effective, if you're exclusively BF and the kid's not on solids yet. I mean, it seriously lowers the chances of a knock up.
Right. It's an evolutionary adaptation -- not perfect, but not mythical.
One of the things I heard most often after giving birth, while still in the hospital, was "what are you going to do for birth control"? My midwife even said, "I have people turn up pregnant at their 6-week postpartum checkup all the time. Don't let it be you." Needless to say I didn't have sex until my first was, like 6 months old, for one reason and another (like, 'ow,' and 'I am so fucking tired.')
I do know a woman who got pregnant right away, while breastfeeding, and it was TWINS. She had a 10 month old and newborn twins. And a live-in mother-in-law, thank god.
