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I know this blog is a couple years old....

JamiSings — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 10:53:57 -0500

But in answer to the grooming question - I think it's important that you're clean down there. After all, they're sticking their nose near a very smelly part of your body.

I remember one time my regular doctor had to do a pap smear on another woman. Apparently she was SO filthy and smelly that she had little balls of you know what clinging to the hairs. My GP ran out of the room and outside, sucking down great mouthfuls of air to try and avoid throwing up. We could hear the nurse ordering the woman to wash herself. (It's a small office.) When the woman came back she was still smelly and had little bits of paper stuck all over and we could hear her loudly proclaiming "That's good enough." She was ordered back to the bathroom to wash with soap.

So obviously some sort of grooming is important. That's why I always like my apointments first thing in the morning so I can be freshly bathed. I also increase my water intake a week or so prior as the more water you drink, the less your urine smells. So if I have to go right before the doctor sees me, I won't have that strong, nasty smell you get when you don't drink enough water.

I've never had a professional wax job and tend to shave along the panty line every day anyway.

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Awesome

MissStacyD — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 13:19:01 -0500

My skin hates me, this I have decided. Exfoliation and caution is perhaps the best advice. Thanks for the morning insight!

Stacy

How informative

Tina Lane — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 16:39:20 -0500

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Yes, the "tulips" line makes

miguelina — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 13:28:21 -0500

Yes, the "tulips" line makes me giggle every time. I can't help it!

Wax on, wax off

humanbeing — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:21:18 -0500

Regardless of your hair removal method, here are some rules of thumb for avoiding the dreaded rash, razor bumps and ingrowns:

1) gently exfoliate that area every day. I use my Clariisonic face brush, and since I've started, I rarely get an ingrown--and I used to be plagued by them.

2) use an astringent such as Tend Skin (salycylic acid) or benzoyl peroxide when you start getting some grow in.

Also, another great hair removal technique: laser hair removal. It's expensive, about $1200 depending on whether you do American, French or Brazilian. It may not remove all hair permanently, and it's not suitable for people with lighter body hair. However, if you extrapolate how much money you will spend on waxing, shavers, astringent, shaving cream, etc. for the next three years or so, you'll see that you'll spend that anyway. I know many women who've had this done and swear by it. However, it is permanent, so if the 70's full bush ever comes back, you'll be out of luck.

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No, No, and NO on the waxing

tsjohnson5 — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 11:12:21 -0500

I waed my eyebrows once. I broke out in a rash across my forehead/face and hurt like a b*tch. I was scheduled for a bikini wax that day and promptly cnaceled. Never again.

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Erin White — Sat, 20 Jun 2009 08:47:41 -0500

Only the British could get away with a commercial extolling the virtues of "mowing the lawn" - right down to the woman obsessively petting her, um, cat, and "tulips" on the mound!

Thanks for the giggles this morning :)

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I am the opposite of natural

JPeaslee — Wed, 10 Jun 2009 21:38:52 -0500

I'm all about shaving my vagoo. I think it's gross when it's unshaved, and REALLY itchy. Oddly enough, I've heard other women complain that it's itchy when it is shaved. Each their own?

I don't have a problem with men being encouraged to shave; I would totally enjoy it if my boyfriend shaved his armpits, and he does trim the little monster from time to time. The thing that goes wrong is when we say, "This is the ONLY way." Ordering men/women to shave/not shave is wrong. We should have a choice - I shave. You don't. Big deal.

On another note, I visited a tattoo parlor once with a friend who was getting her good girl pierced. The artist mentioned that she's had to turn people away for being too untamed. She didn't make fun of these people to their faces, but she sure as hell did behind their backs. So maybe your OBGYN is making fun of you - but let's hope they're far too sensible and professional to partake in such activities.

I am all natural, too, and

alianora — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 18:48:25 -0500

I am all natural, too, and for the same reason the rich white guy is sneering - who on earth wants to put a sharp metal blade that close to extremely sensative areas? NOT ME!

Thank goodness I'm not the only dirty hairy mom around ;-)

heathc — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 00:08:23 -0500

My eyebrows are straight and thick and haven't been shaped and waxed or even plucked for months. I've taken to scraping a nosehair trimmer on the spot at the bridge of my nose for fear they will start growing together. I shave my legs once a month if that. Showering even every other day is a luxury for me (and those who have to be close to me). I've gone longer, frequently. Unless I've run out of deodorant. Although I've been known to borrow my husband's in a pinch and then try to girl up the smell. Ick.

Finally about mother's day I just caved. I crumpled into a ball of dysfunctional and teary-eyed exhaustion, and so my husband presented me with a gift: A gift certificate for a nearby spa and one night in the hotel across the street from the spa - ALONE. He'd stay home with Bobbin. I checked in at noon, went for a 4 mile walk along the river trail, came back and showered, went to get my hair done, came back and ordered room service with a bottle of wine, relaxed in a tub full of bubbles, laid around in my bathroom on the kingsize bed watching bad pay-per-view movies, slept for 8 hours uninterrupted, and then woke up at 9am and, having fullfilled all of my many fantasies of time and solitude and relaxation that have been building up the past year, went home and thanked my husband and then washed the kitchen and dining room floors and did a load of laundry.

I highly recommend one night in a hotel if you can swing it - even if it is close by. Just make sure if you work outside the home that the hotel isn't hosting a conference for your company while you're staying there like there was at mine :-). I spent the first few hours worrying if someone I know would recognize me walking in and out, and wonder what reason I could possibly have for checking into a hotel for one night in the middle of the week... marital woes? ellicit affair? I got over it pretty quickly when the wine was finally delivered to my room.

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Serving the placenta to others.

Denise — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:27:50 -0600

Good question - rituals of birth? A way of celebrating the new life? I guess we'd have to find someone who shared hers with others and ask.

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Placentophagy: I knew I liked you...

Denise — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:26:25 -0600

That's exactly the problem. There's no money in placentophagy research and that's a shame.

Thanks for your comment and I hope you'll be blogging about placentophagy in the future. The more posts, the better.

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my research lead me here and been there, done that

Amy Gates — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 17:10:49 -0600

What do ya know? I'm thinking about writing a post on placentophagy and I came upon this in my research. ;) It seems there aren't all that many posts "out there" about eating one's placenta. Go figure. :oP

Anyway, as someone who DID ingest my own placenta (in the form of placenta pills - assembled by my midwife) after the birth my son, I have to say it wasn't disgusting, and I think it helped with my recovery after birth.

I, too, think there should be some studies done on the effects, but placentophagy won't make the pharmaceutical companies any money, so why would they do the research? Oops. My cynicism is rearing it's ugly head. ;)

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Why Serve It To Other People?

MdMommy2Two — Tue, 08 Jan 2008 21:28:51 -0600

I'm a little late getting to this, but all I can say is that my holiday season was insane!

Anyway, having suffered terribly from PPD after the births of both my children, if placentophagy worked, I'd be all over that. Anything to avoid the misery I went through.

But...what I don't get is why a woman would serve her placenta to other people.

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OB/GYN vs The Wino Gyno

Roberta — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 11:46:11 -0600

being in the health care biz I find the whole gyn thing hysterical.

I have patients that refer to a G-Y-N appointment (say the letters not the word) as "I went to my GYNO " (rhymes with wino) appt.

As far as getting fixed up-I have one NP friend who says this to all her patients that are worried they didn't shave for her "Don't worry, I am going to examine you-not DATE you" I burst out laughing when she told me that phrase.

I also had a patient who told me her boyfriend was jealous of her GYNO because she (the patient) got all primped up for the visit and never did the same for the boyfriend.

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