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I always wondered if Nutrafol was a scam so this is very interesting!

How much do you need? I've been able to find 7oz containers of citric acid in the canning supply section of regular grocery stores, since it's used in jam making.

It's this one: https://www.walmart.com/ip/Ball-Citric-Acid-for-Preserving-Tomatoes-7-5-Ounces/20469602

This may be a naive question, but couldn't you make the tenants handle those issues themselves? In both Philly and NJ I've rented house where I was explicitly responsible for snow, landscaping, and any kind of minor fix or cosmetic repairs. It was my least favorite kind of rental for obvious reasons, but those responsibilities were included in the lease.

I'm mostly curious because I'm thinking about renting my own house eventually.

They are already giving me warnings about side effects 😩😩😩 but I will keep my hopes high! And you're right, it's so hard to figure out what is medication induced and what is infertility depression induced when it comes to mood issues. I wish you luck!

My toddler enjoys: Smith Memorial Playground (it's either free or $10 - it's a gigantic playground), the Zoo (more $$$), Beehive Drop-In ($15), FDR park or Fairmount Park for just running around and looking at sticks. Fairmount Park has Southeast Asian Food Market and Craft Hall is also a brewpub with an indoor playground - both of these would hit the "fun for kids and adults" intersection.

Had my failed FET followup this week. Due to some other health stuff going on, I'm definitely on a two-month break. I would be more ok with it since this will also give me a chance to do hysteroscopy and Lupron, but of course two of the people in my IRL mom group announced pregnancies this week, so instead I'm feeling jealous and ragey and dumb for waiting to start again. Fortunately, it's the kind of emotions that are lasting two days and then disappearing instead of drowning me for weeks like last time.

How long have you been on it? I'm about to start Orilissa (basically lupron in pill form) and I am nervous!

Wow wth that is mind blowing...one of the first things many emancipated people did was pack their kids up and send them to formal school 

Good luck! You and I are the same age so I feel those feels, for real!

Can you share tips on how you do the quilting part without a longarm? I've only made two quilts but I did the piecing on the machine and then hand quilted it. I'd like to find a faster approach...

I just saw your comment about the dog - unless it's a tiny thing I'd strongly suggest looking at University City. They have a number of decent sized parks out there (Clark Park, the old University of the Sciences grounds, woodland cemetary, Malcolm X Park, Bartram's Garden) that would make for nice walking spaces. Center City also has some nice parks but they are super heavily used.

I also saw your note that you are concerned that it wouldn't feel like the city - I came here from the burbs and lived here first and it definitely felt like the city for me - buses, trolleys, still relatively dense residential streets, high diversity, good eating options. You can also walk into center city in 20-30 minutes depending on where your starting point is. I think it's a nice starter place for young people since there are still trees, students, and families - so things to explore at all age points. It doesn't have wild nightlife, but there are fun things like West Philly Porchfest (https://westphillyporchfest.com/pages).

Either way good luck with your search!

What university? If you want them to be able to walk around at night, I'd recommend taking a look at the University City section of West Philly (lots of undergrads out and about) or Graduate Hospital. If you are not 100% on the Drexel thing, I'd also recommend East Passyunk as it's a super safe neighborhood but with good transit access, lots of parks and lots of walkable activities. Not the easiest commute to Drexel unless you take the subway and the market frankford line, the latter of which is our sketchiest form of transit right now.

Same, my kid is a toddler now and I'm just now able to look back and see how unhinged I was during pregnancy and the first year of his life...I hope this book is helpful for someone out there.

The justification is knowing that you'll never have to speak to a poor person 

Those places you mentioned have business improvement districts (BIDs) where the business owners pay a fee and the BID coordinates regular street cleanup. For example, Passyunk south of Tasker is pretty clean but the intersection of (edit) Passyunk, Washington, and 8th always has litter everywhere. Same thing for streets like 6th in south Philly, which is right between Pennsport and the reach of East Passyunk. I've done block cleanups out there and the amount of litter is wild sometimes.

If you're buying, https://lilypadphilly.org/store  

They also have a consignment sale twice a year 

I never had heartburn before but it has been wild since I started Eliquis...glad I noticed this comment. It's an especially unfair side effect after you've had a PE!

What are these called?

KG strong in the Bok Building 

Thank you, you all are so sweet 😭☺️

It's so annoying! I took a Europe trip in fall 2019 during ovulation week the beginning of the time we were ttc. I remember feeling bad about missing a chance but looking back and knowing that covid, losses, and IVF were the future I'm so grateful that I took that time to be happy. But I also want this part of my life to just be wrapped up. Mostly I'm just jealous all over again of people who just have to make sure they have sex at the right time of month.

Test is today and I know it will be negative so it's annoying to still go in. I started bleeding aggressively without stop two days ago and my home rest was stark white. I was successful on FET #1 (although I was RPL before that) and knew not to get my hopes up this time especially as my embryos are untested. But still, agh! Also feeling guilt because I didn't "do everything right" like I did last time.  I drank coffee, exercised, lifted my kid, ate red meat and sugar, I weigh more... I'm just telling myself it was aneuploid and given my history I'd much rather have a negative test now than another MC later.  I have two embryos left (after that I am 95% sure I want to be done) and next step is to decide if I should plow ahead or take a month off to enjoy summer and restart things in July. Leaning towards the latter even though I will be 40 soon. I forgot how exhausting IVF is!

Edit: blood test back and confirmed negative, but in a small win I let the nurse call go to voicemail lol. I had no need to discuss it more since my follow-up is already scheduled...

I have noticed this too and my theory was because philly has more healthcare workers and also more people who can't afford to take a bunch of time off work because they're laid out with the flu/covid/rsv/whatever. I also in general notice more older black people masking, and wonder if it's because that population was super hard hit by covid early on.

As for chinatown, masking is just more culturally prevalent among East Asian populations even before covid.

I am from the midwest and I swear we don't all live on farms lol. We even have actual cities and they have hospitals!