What's the opposite of a crunchy mama?

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It think that we are soggy mommies!

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We may have done a first - a no spoiler zone for those who are not pc.

As to the beer, I can see none of you are real Pittsburghers. You start beer before formula - its cheaper and more natural
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Now where were you on that thread while I was getting bashed saying that a mother who nurses her children until four and who wears them until three and who couldn't consider the idea of their sleeping away from home for a night even if they are six or seven might just be a tad clingy?
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I know someone IRL who is always exaggerating. She's been told that by dozens of people ever since she was first able to talk, and now 35 years later is still at it. She has no idea at which point when she speaks that the truth has been left far behind. I wonder if she'll ever learn.

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You gals are to funny.... I'm enjoying this thread... keep em coming

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There is a certain type of person who defines themselves or aspects of themselves by what they are not. I don't get it.
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I thought of some more crunchiness in my very soggy home:

I believe in homebirthing. my laundry procreates in the hamper, my dishes give birth in the sink...

you guys are funny!! yes baby-wearing (me out) is common for me. I believe in nursing til age 3 (months). I use cloth diapers (as shmattas). I labor at home (until I feel my first contraction). LOL. well to be honest I really am part-crunchy, part-soggy. I am a fan of co-sleeping til baby sleeps more thru the nite, I am a very big fan of nursing thru 6 mnths or even a year, I even go into the bathtub when bathing a young baby. but maybe we all have our crunchiness!! on the other hand, I dont babywear, I dont use cloth diapers, I do introduce bottles and pacis at a young age...

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I don't think that anyone here is trying to make fun of natural parenting, rather we are poking fun at our own non-crunchiness and how we are totally not into it.

I really think you are taking it the wrong way.

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I once sent my kids off to carpool with ice cream. It was some crazy time and I couldn't or they wouldn't settle down to eat breakfast. I figured better something in them (Plus it has calcium) than going to school on empty stomaches.

My friend driving car pool thought I had lost my mind.

Posted: Mon, Nov 09 2009, 12:24 pm Post subject:

Thanks for laughs

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Posted: Tue, Nov 10 2009, 7:08 am Post subject:

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And we all know losing weight is healthy:

LOSE WEIGHT WITH THE BEER, ICE-CREAM AND PIZZA DIET
As we all know, it takes 1 calorie to heat 1 gram of water 1 degree centigrade. Translated into meaningful terms, this means that if you eat a very cold dessert (generally consisting of water in large part), the natural processes which raise the consumed dessert to body temperature during the digestive cycle literally sucks the calories out of the only available source, your body fat. For example, a dessert served and eaten at near 0 degrees C (32.2 deg.F) will in a short time be raised to the normal body temperature of 37 degrees C (98.6 deg. F). For each gram of dessert eaten, that process takes approximately 37 calories as stated above. The average dessert portion is 6 oz, or 168 grams. Therefore, by operation of thermodynamic law, 6,216 calories (1 cal./gm/deg. x 37 deg. x 168 gms) are extracted from body fat as the dessert's temperature is normalized. Allowing for the 1,200 latent calories in the dessert, the net calorie loss is approximately 5,000 calories. Obviously, the more cold dessert you eat, the better off you are and the faster you will lose weight, if that is your goal.

This process works equally well when drinking very cold beer in frosted glasses. Each ounce of beer contains 16 latent calories, but extracts 1,036 calories (6,216 cal. per 6 oz. portion) in the temperature normalizing process. Thus the net calorie loss per ounce of beer is 1,020 calories. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to calculate that 12,240 calories (12 oz. x 1,020 cal./oz.) are extracted from the body in the process of drinking a can of beer.

Frozen desserts, e.g., ice cream, are even more beneficial, since it takes 83 cal./gm to melt them (I.e., raise them to 0 deg. C) and an additional 37 cal./gm to further raise them to body temperature. The results here are really remarkable, and it beats running hands down.

Unfortunately, for those who eat pizza as an excuse to drink beer, pizza (loaded with latent calories and
served above body temperature) induces an opposite effect. But, thankfully, as the astute reader should have already reasoned, the obvious solution is to drink a lot of beer with pizza and follow up immediately with large bowls of ice cream.

We could all be thin if we were to adhere religiously to a pizza, beer, and ice cream diet.