I hate, hate this saying. What about all those poor sexual abuse survivors or people who have been murdered or the terminally ill. Along with ' when your times up'. All a load of crock.

@natty_do of course the public system cannot guarantee a dream birth. I've had family and friends with traumatic births in the public system too. I wouldn't waste my money on going private as I don't believe you get any better care.  But that's just my opinion. I've had 2 home births with a midwife and they were far from dream births but the experience and level of care b4, during and after birth was nothing short of amazing. 

@efffsteele couldn't agree more. That was my suggestion in the comments too. Go public next time and with the money you save hire a midwife or doula. Back 10 years ago it cost me 3k for a private midwife. That provided me with all my pre natal care, she was there for the birth and visited me at home almost daily for the first week or two then weekly until bubs was 6 weeks. A bargain. I wouldn't do it any other way

Thank you for sharing your story. I'd recommend if you decide to have another baby to just go thru the public system but employ a midwife or doula to empower and support you even if things don't go to plan. All the best x

@tru_lies19  stay home then. My kids were breastfed and I expressed and went to a concert when my 2nd was 2 months old. 😄

Get a babysitter 😀

I mean 100k a year seems pretty decent to me. 

Why would anyone bother going to the police? I read an article recently about a rape case of a 15 yr old by a 35 year old and the judge took into account that the victim was 'almost 16' and the perpetrator wasn't violent with her and spoke nicely to her during the assault. Like what the heck are these judges thinking? 

There are 2 sides to this story. The truth probably lies someone in the middle. Wouldn't be uncommon for a mother to chamge her mind about adopting baby after giving birth and bonding with it. This was always going to be messy. When you barely know someone from O/S and plan to have a child together.  

5 year hap is horrible IMO. Nothing in common, different stages and you are just plain annoying.  I have a 5.5 yr gap with my older and younger sister. Never got on until we left home and the age gap shrunk.

My wardrobe is full of bright colours and floral.lol

Zendaya gets my vote for best dressed

@laura__palmer the article said they had trespassed the property at least 6 times in the past so it's likely he had told them to leave before but was fed up. 3 kids under 8 yrs wandering the streets alone isn't an issue? Trespassing on someone else's property where one of them could have drowned? Where is the parental supervision? He was a tradie using what he had at his disposal. I'm curious what the police would suggest he could have done to restrain them in a proper manner

I really admire the balls these guys have to pull off these elaborate scams.  I guess when it's big corporations they are scamming it seems more acceptable than trying to rip off little old ladies. I would love their confidence 

I'd say Yes. But make sure you can afford it. It's not cheap to feed, vet visits etc...

Sounds like a big PASS from me

Agree.

@anonymous if all those short term rentals came available I don't think it would really solve the problem as holiday homes are nice and expensive and people on their own living on minimum wage coulnt afford them anyway.  Housing is the government's responsibility . There needs to be more public housing and the rent a certain percentage of people's earnings.  There are so many 'single' people essentially homeless and couch surfing coz you need at least 2 full time incomes to pay for rent. This is only going to get worse and kids will be staying at home waaay longer.

IMO a G-string bikini doesn't look flattering on most. Much prefer the look of a cheeky bikini bottom. And do kids really need to see all this in public too???

Being good looking has its disadvantages too. I know some gorgeous women who have always found friendships hard as other girls/women are jealous of them. People much prefer average looking friends as it's less intimidating and they don't have to worry about their boyfriend or hubby checking them out too😁