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top ten ways pregnancy and childbirth will drive you crazy: #2 – your personality goes down the toilet
Posted on September 14, 2014 by nikki in health and beauty, pregnancy and childbirth, top ten lists.When she was pregnant, my friend Carolyn announced that her personality turned off at 8pm. When not pregnant, the usual shut off time trends towards 10pm so the difference is considerable for those spending an evening with her. As it happened, we were pregnant at the same time. While I was impressed with her precision, […]
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top ten ways pregnancy and childbirth will drive you crazy: #1- trying to use the internet to find out if you’re pregnant or not
Posted on August 5, 2014 by nikki in health and beauty, pregnancy and childbirth, top ten lists.Ladies and Gentlemen, do me a favor. Do a web search for “signs of pregnancy.” Pretend your period is approaching a late arrival and you don’t happen to be able to think about anything else other than whether or not life is about to get really weird. “Concentrate on something else,” you tell yourself, so […]
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the last on my list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phonomena that blow my mind, continued: Lucy
Posted on April 9, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.Lucy was an unabashedly uninhibited girl of the ‘60’s for whom the sexual revolution was beside the point. She was able to tap into her erotic resources with no help from Masters and Johnson and she instinctively took responsibility for her own orgasms without so much as a glance at Our Bodies, Ourselves. Lucy’s story […]
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my top ten list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind, continued: body identity integrity disorder
Posted on February 19, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.It’s spring on I-5, my favorite time to be driving to Los Angeles. Miles of apricot, peach and almond trees are in bloom. The experience is so inspiring, that I reach to turn-off NPR – I’m too happy to listen to the world’s problems. But my finger pauses half-way to the radio: a reporter from […]
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my top ten list of the most amazing and possibly even true scientific phenomena that blow my mind, continued
Posted on February 10, 2013 by nikkimeredith in odds and sods, science/research, top ten lists.As I wrote last week, the criteria for this top ten “best” list is a little mysterious even to me. From the raging river of data that flows through my brain daily, some bits and pieces stick. Sometimes they hang on because they reveal something startling or offer a little piece of a larger puzzle. […]
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