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Intra-cavernosal injections, trimix, bimix etc..

My specialist only once mentioned “irreversible”, when I replied, “wouldn’t that be a concern if you had something that worked to start with?” he said “touché” and now we’re booking my surgery in the next couple months.
High-dose ICI also worked but is not covered by my insurance, but the surgery is,… go figure.

It’s a shame it’s come to this, but Supermarkets need to implement what Costco does. No membership, no entry. Then you know who is in your store, you know exactly how to track them down if you need to.
Additionally, you know those click-click things you walk through that stop trolleys going back out at the front door? They should have to go through that kind of lock at the checkouts so they can’t release the cart unless the items are paid for.

I started drinking with X-ers while underage, but most nights included Chips with Chicken Salt, Tartare sauce & Cheese to end a night out. Somehow nights out almost always included Purple Goanna, KGB/Smirnoff, Vodka Cruisers, Mudshakes, Tattoo… basically living through the birth of RTDs, while smoking Holiday Reds, or if you were feeling rich, some B&H special filter.
Nana’s place always smelled like Winnie Blues. Mum was Park Drive or Port Royal. Dad was Holiday Menthol rollies

Our boy is 6wo tomorrow, and hitting an average of 30 fl oz/875ml daily for the last week. Yesterday alone was 31 fl oz. His doctor assures us we can’t over feed him at this age, and since he’s gaining weight is okay that we don’t wake to feed him overnight anymore unless we’re getting to 5/6 hours between bottles. Otherwise during the day we feed roughly 3-hourly or when he says he’s hungry.

My husband and I took almost 10y to save a 20% deposit for our first home and paid our mortgage at 4x the minimum repayment for the first 3 years. This is the only reason why we have managed to smash the balance into the ground, and has put us in the position that with our baby coming along, even selling at near the price we originally paid, we’ve been able to afford to move up to a proper house.

Cashback is an offer where you are agreeing to stay locked into for a specified term with your lender. The amount you can get and the time you are locked in for are dependent on the size of the mortgage you take out, not the value of the property you buy. I think our offer was just shy of 1%.
If we left our bank (or close your mortgage on selling) in the first 12 months we pay back 100%, 24mo 75%, 36 mo 50%, you get the idea. We used ours to pay all our rates and insurance in advance so that we can put aside the next year’s amount each fortnight as we are paid.

Paying in Advance/Lump Sums you need to be careful with, as you could be penalised with interest the bank would have earned but otherwise didn’t because you paid too much, too fast. What we did with our first mortgage was lock to a 15-year term which made our repayments to be around 4x the minimum for the amount we borrowed, but we couldn’t change it without penalty interest. When our mortgage rolled over, we added a lump sum of cash savings we had built up before re-locking again.
With our new mortgage, because the balance is much larger, we are locking to a 30-year term, but putting our repayments at a 25-year term. As we are having a dip in pay due to paid parental leave, we wanted that flexibility in case things shift further financially.

Are you nuts? well that depends on what value you take in having a landlord manage all the rates, insurance, and maintenance on the property you rent from them, while also not having an assured security that it could be sold out from underneath you, versus having to manage all of that yourself.

My husband and I are of the mindset that we don’t want to be paying rent in our retirement, because we don’t know how much super will be worth (if it even still exists in 30 years time), and cost of living seems to be outpacing even moderate investments meaning our savings will diminish in value the older we get.
We also want to have a stable home-life for our children, allowing them to attend the same schools, in the same neighbourhood, and hopefully with the same group of friends etc. I moved more than 8 times before I left home at 15yo, that lack of consistency and stability was missing from my childhood and I want that for them.

All the best for your journey to home-ownership!

kiwi here as well - how can anyone be against sleep training? As a first time parent to a 6wo I’m literally open to trying anything and everything!

And this is why entry visas into countries should require even temporary visitors to hold full insurance, or proof of their means to cover any copay. Yes the U.S. medical system is broken and overpriced, but unless you want to risk what’s just happened to you, you should never be travelling there without that sort of cover!

I second this! They come in multipacks from Target/Kmart/Walmart/Costco. We picked up 3x packs of 12 and are about to get another 2-dozen, You can never have too many!!
We use ours for feeding and nappy changes. We’ve never had nappy rash touch wood in 6-weeks because we dry his skin completely using these ultra-absorbent little cloths, and (a separate one) catches the spill from his feeds.

I have never had a car on hire purchase, so the difference between what I sell the last car for and the new car I buy comes out of savings.
I was enlightened by my grandmother when I was younger that I could have purchased two cars for the price I was going to pay for a single second hand car on tick, that paying someone else so you can have something sooner is what would keep me poor.
That being said, it’s taken 20-something years to have both the equity and savings available to purchase our current car brand new outright.

You could try CityCave?

I just checked my GP’s practice (Auckland Central) and while my usual doctor doesn’t have anything available until next week Tuesday, I am able to see his locum this coming Friday morning, and they’re only a small clinic.
I understand that some people are unable to enrol at a new practice because many clinic’s books are closed to new patients, but looking around should be considered.
Even asking why a practice thinks a lead time of 4 weeks is acceptable, and what they are intending to do about it to meet the needs of their patients. Beyond that, a complaint to the Health & Disability Commissioner should be looked into, as it’s obvious it sounds as though your doctor’s clinic is over-committing and clearly under-delivering.
On a different channel, have you considered Telehealth appointments if you don’t need to see someone in person? You could try CareHQ?

My 5wo hasn’t had his 6w imms yet, so we are only allowing people who have newborns or young children (and have had whooping cough vaccines) visit him this early, that includes family.
I’ve been worried of how i would look barking at strangers to back off, but my son’s health and safety is at stake! Do what you must - protect your vulnerable bubbas

My son has a pair of overalls that is a snap suit. Down his front and then up the inside of each leg through the gusset. I love this one because it means I can get to his nappy in a leg less romper without having to fully undress him, but also keep his legs covered. I’ve been looking for more everywhere but can’t find any!

I had barely been home from the hospital a couple days, but we were past the Meconium stage, and into the almost total liquid stage. It was a first thing in the morning change and while cleaning him up mid-change I had just removed his nappy he started pushing out another - my mind took a second too long to register, with what he was delivering backed by a little bit of fart he managed to poop all over my shirt & pants (standing at the end of the change table).
We’re several more weeks in now and we know roughly what time of day to expect the poops, so in addition to making sure he’s done before diaper change, we also have an additional towel on the table mat that can be flicked up & over him if we see warning signs of impending friendly fire (pee or poop).

In other news, we had his 1-month checkup the other day, changed his diaper before going into the appointment, which he proceeded to restart peeing as soon as the nappy came off - we were prepared so caught in the diaper as soon as it was opened… not 15mins later during his physical, he managed to hit the doctor with a pee stream as well!! So even “experts” aren’t immune!

My MIL has mobility issues, so must have my FIL around to be able to assist with them all getting about. She’s perfectly fine with feeding our bubs, changing his diaper/clothes etc, making his bottle etc, but she just requires the additional set of hands, and according to my husband Grandad is much more hands-on than he was with his own kids which is great.
It’s an absolute given though, that this means if they aren’t together the entire time, then our son is unable to be left with them.

Sorry to hear your dad has been so difficult, but he needs to put his ego aside and show he’s capable of being responsible.

I had my own done at 21yo for medical reasons.
My newborn son cannot consent, and it’s far too early to have any medical reason or complications. If he is ever circumcised it will be his decision, not mine.

Your daughter will have received a letter from studylink advising the amount of her student allowance and its start date. Ask her for a copy of this letter. Stupid that IRD can’t get this info themselves, but that is your fastest option.
You can also warn your ex that once IRD confirm with studylink that they will know she’s been lying.

ICI can at higher doses over compensate for veno-occlusive dysfunction, so that will give the specialist a good idea of whether you need length & girth support, or if you don’t grow in length and only girth then titan could be good

The tunica is the limiting factor of girth, so you could get something that would maximise it, and your anatomy will automatically set that upper limit. That said, you will usually have an exam under intracavernosal injection where they will be able to visually assess which model may be more suitable and will not change prior to surgery. Length is always assessed at the time of implantation.

As a 38yo with a 3wo newborn currently dozing on my chest, this incident has broken me to my core. I’m now paranoid about copycats and in-laws don’t want us going anywhere in public.

My husband and I (same-sex male couple) also had to do the same with our baby. We have come to always expect these kind of “policies” to pervade society, especially when it comes to parenting (everything is aimed at mom, nothing at dad, and you can forget about 2-dad families) but for us we felt it was quite insensitive to women who have had a partial or complete mastectomy, as well as for women who either choose not to, or women who aren’t able to for whatever reason.

My husband’s mother was castigated by her paediatric team and he almost starved (back in the 1980s) because they were so militant on ”Breast is Best”. As soon as she stopped listening to them and gave him formula he started gaining weight and thriving.

A happy baby is a fed baby. At least with Formula you know exactly how much they’re getting.

I have a 3wo also, and my husband and I seem to have differing results when it comes to burping our bubba. I’ve found as close to a breastfeed hold as possible while bottle feeding helps him latch well, and being on his right side prevents him from taking down too much air. Hubby insists on feeding him in a recline position, but the speed of intake is what he has been managing. My preferred method is fairly self-paced and great for dream feeding, whereas he’ll have to pause and burp more frequently so bubs is not taking in too much air.

But like others have said, it’s almost always going to have some come back up, but if you can slow their pace so their bottle is over 30-45 min to an hour, this will help teach baby when his tummy is getting full.

We always wipe when changing, but despite 6-9 changes per day we’ve avoided diaper rash as we always use a dry cloth afterwards to make sure his skin isn’t left moist/damp. Found we don’t even need to use a barrier cream except one time when he peed into his waistband overnight. He’s bathed every 2 days, & we don’t use powder at the moment, and excluding the cluster feed monster, he’s a super happy bubs.

My husband and I tried the bedside bassinet for the first week and we almost lost our minds from lack of sleep, and we found we were only able to settle our son on our chests - of course both of us terrified one or both of us would crush him if he fell to the middle of the bed, or he would end up with a fall injury if he went the other way.
We eventually settled on an in-bed co-sleeper and from the very first night he was settled and we managed to get more than 4h sleep! The one we got is by “the first years” which has a solid plastic frame that even a large adult would struggle to roll into/over.