Nothing wrong with a spanking i wreckon. The kids these days run circles around their parents, coz of the anti smacking laws here.

It's bad here too. So much has changed since I was a kid. Can't take a picture of your kids in the bathtub without getting the child pornography finger pointed at you. Just recently I read an article scolding parents for kissing their kids. :[

I also believe spanking should be allowed when the kid truly deserves it.

I know it's ridiculous! What? For kissing their kids? What the heck, that's outrageous! Seems like kissing is now only seen as something sexual. What has this world come too? Lol

I believe that too. There's a difference between giving your kid a smack on the butt, over bashing it black and blue.
A friend of mine, flicked his son on the ear, and some people near by called the cops on him. And he got a fine and a warning for it... It didn't even hurt him, the kid was actually laughing when he did it. Like wtf?

Wow. Yeah, people are crazy sometimes... :\

I'm still curious how we'll handle Terra as she grows. With my nephew, I'd tap his hand and tell him no if he were getting into something he shouldn't have (which happened far too often). I think he only got two spankings from me.

It seems a parent looks at their kids the wrong way, and they're charged with abuse. And those who are really abusing their kids aren't caught. -__-

That's how I feel, pretty much.

Clair is watching a wild show about a woman who was pregnant (with the same baby) for 46 years. :O

Is it where the fetus ended up being calcified? ;_;

Ew i saw an episode on nip tuck, where this ladys baby was calcified. Totally freaky.

I should go read up about how that happens, but I'm too lazy. x.x

Sooo i had to look. And i just saw pictures ... And screamed lol.

Yeah.... it was calcified... o.o

Its really quite creepy to be honest. I wonder how that happens.

I remember reading a story about a woman in another country having that happened. I think I would ball my eyes out if it happened to me. It'd be so sad. :(....and ironic.

Yeah that's the story i read, it was inside her for 3 years. She said that the pregnancy was going well - and then the baby never came out?? 0_____0
I would be too. It's kinda like being still born. :(

It's when a rare pregnancy when the fertilized egg doesn't make it to the womb, but bursts out of the tube and grows into the stomach cavity (very rare). Usually these babies die before 3 months, but sometimes, they survive to full term, but they can't be born through the birth canal because they're not in the womb. They usually die at that point, and removing the child from the cavity is hard because the baby and placenta are connected to the mother's internal organs. If they make even the slightest of movements of the baby and placenta, the mother's organs could start bleeding, and the mother will most likely die of internal bleeding.

In some cases, in other 3rd world countries, where this sort of thing is not known, the baby will remain undetected, and to protect the mother from the dead mass that can't be absorbed back into the mother, because the mother's body recognizes the baby as a foreign body, it deposits calcium around it. The baby is entombed in calcium to keep the mother's body safe from it.//

That's one reason a lot of mother miscarry. The mother's body recognizes that the mass of cells (before the actual fetus has developed) as a foreign body and the mother's body reacts in a panic to rid itself of what it confuses to be a malicious parasite.

Ohh wow, that's really interesting Clair. Thank you for that info! <3

Yep. It's always creeped me out. ;-;

Side note, someone who lives here in my tiny town had a child with that type of pregnancy. She didn't know a thing. He lived and is healthy though!

Scary, Chi! O.o Those pregnancies are painful!

*is busy to Jammin' to 90s music* Man when they make a channel for your decade you start feeling old. :O

Originally Posted by Chi

Yep. It's always creeped me out. ;-;

Side note, someone who lives here in my tiny town had a child with that type of pregnancy. She didn't know a thing. He lived and is healthy though!

Wow that is pretty epic lol.
How did he not get all calcified??

He didn't calcify because he didn't die. Her pregnancy was entirely uneventful. When she went into "labor" she had such back pains that she went to the hospital. She was gobsmacked when she found out a full-term boy was inside her. His intestines were on the outside of his stomach, but a quick surgery took care of it. I don't think he has a bellybutton, but beyond that, his health has been 100% tip-top notch! Really lucky. :)

I'm dropping a note to say I'll be gone 'till the 26th or so. We have company. See you all later!

@ Roachi:: The babies are calcified only after the baby dies.

@ Chi::
The baby was not in her womb and had his organs on the outside?! HOW THE HELL DID HE SURVIVE!? Those are two EXTREMELY RARE AND DANGEROUS pregnancies to carry out full term!? Most babies with that disorder die if they go full term even if they're in their mother's womb... o.o

He survived by sheer luck I reckon. He's so cute, too. :XD

Wow that's amazing.
And okay Chi, have fun :)