Marimaru

I agree! I think it's great when people want to help and take the initiative to find information!

I would still like to hear from the non-spanking side of the line, what the 'non-spanking alternatives' are. Since those of us arguing for it are speaking of it in a well planned, last resort manner. After one has tried talking to their child, or time out, or grounding them from playing with their friends, or their favorite toys. If the message just isn't getting through, then what? Plenty of kids, the above that I have mention would be more than enough. But for plenty of kids that I have seen, things like that are more an annoyance than punishment. In my sister's case, she would just sneak the things she wanted, or try to bargain her way out of her grounding, etc.

Mine has become more noticeable as I've lost weight. They are about a cup size difference. Hopefully whenever I get them lifted I can get that fixed.

I haven't gone through anything like this, but there is a member on here who is familiar with Mexican surgeons, and I believe she has information on going after Mexican surgeons via the legal system. Her screen name is wasabubblebutt. You could send her a private message. I believe she had surgery recently, so she might not be on for a bit. If your husband still has the band, Inamed can determine if the product was faulty. I imagine that if they discover that it was, they would compensate you to some degree..

Thanks for updating! I am glad to hear you are feeling better!

what you are describing is aspiration. Basically, you are coughing because the contents of your stomach are coming up when you lay down. If it isn't every night, you could try things like not eating after 6 or 7 pm ( a good number of hours before bedtime). You should probably talk to your surgeon about it if it suddenly came out of no where.

Air travel you definitely need a passport for. I believe you can drive or walk across right now without one, but it may be as soon as next month that it changes, if I remember correctly.

That is a very moving post. And a post that many people unfortunately could duplicate with their own sets of pictures.

stress, weather, air planes, time of month, being sick, etc. All these things affect the level of tightness in my band. I think just about all of it really has to do with water retention, which makes the tissues thicker.

I think the best idea is to lose on the least amount of fill possible. If you are losing on the plan you were given without much of a struggle, I'm not sure you need a fill. If you start to feel hungry while you are sticking to the plan, or start to not stick to the plan, then you probably need a fill.

Seeing as you keep insisting on mentioning that this is a debate and you have the right to state your opinion, I will mention the fact that a "debate" is supposed to be an intelligent conversation among apposing sides, not a place to be sarcastic and rude. This comment was totally out of line on your part. The point you are missing is that there is a difference in spanking (usually, there's not even real pain involved) and beating. Obviously that point is lost on you repeatedly, so, I'll just go with your 'agree to disagree' and leave it at that, I guess. I haven't heard from you why spanking (in the sense that anyone is talking about it here, not beating) isn't a viable punishment for a child who DOES NOT respond to being spoken to or having privileges taken away. I agree it should be a last resort, but please, enlighten us on the "other options" if speaking to and grounding doesn't work.

This doesn't make any sense to me. My mother spanked me (and used a wooden spoon, because the "use an object other than your hand" belief was big), and our relationship is fine. The rocky part of my childhood that I had to get over had nothing to do with being spanked and had everything to do with emotional issues. The relationship I have with her has always been close, even when I was a kid. She has since admitted that if she had to do it over again, she wouldn't use a spoon, though she probably still would have swatted us. And my sisters and I have agreed never to put her in a home. Positive reinforcement and negative reinforcement are not mutually exclusive. Giving positive reinforcement when a child does something good, doesn't mean you don't give them consequences if they do something wrong. I agree also that how a child is punished should depend on who the child is as well. I probably would have ended up the same person I am, spanked or not (none of the spankings particularly stand out in my min), but I know my younger sister was spanked because she did things that she'd been talked to about, grounded for etc, repeatedly and she just wouldn't listen. I'm not sure how to explain exactly how spanking is done *not* in anger, since you seem to refuse to believe it's possible. The spanking is a decided upon consequence that is then carried out. It's a calm thing, you know it's coming, and your parent isn't yelling at you. Once it's over, that's it, the consequence is over, you hug and move on.