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		<title>By: Lathere</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lathere</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:12:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I&#039;m glad I&#039;m not the only one to start a new job and then have to tell the boss, um actually I&#039;ll be going on maternity leave in about 7 months :P  My energy levels started picking up again at about 16 weeks so if your like me you should be up to raiding again over the next week or 2 though I don&#039;t think I could raid between 11pm - 2am ever!

Looking forward to getting the morphology/structural scan in a week and a half and hopefully being able to tell if its a boy or a girl :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I&#8217;m glad I&#8217;m not the only one to start a new job and then have to tell the boss, um actually I&#8217;ll be going on maternity leave in about 7 months <img src='http://www.hotsdots.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_razz.gif' alt=':P' class='wp-smiley' />   My energy levels started picking up again at about 16 weeks so if your like me you should be up to raiding again over the next week or 2 though I don&#8217;t think I could raid between 11pm &#8211; 2am ever!</p>
<p>Looking forward to getting the morphology/structural scan in a week and a half and hopefully being able to tell if its a boy or a girl <img src='http://www.hotsdots.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: Sarindre</title>
		<link>http://www.hotsdots.com/2010/06/going-casual-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3724</link>
		<dc:creator>Sarindre</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Aug 2010 13:40:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congrats to you! :) Sorry to catch this so late in the game, but I was just reading back through your posts when I noticed this one. It is funny because I have a very similar story to you. 

I started a new job and a week later I found out I was pregnant. Now at 15W 5D my morning/evening/baby making me sick whenever they feel like it sickness has subsided a bit. I too took a break from 25 mans as they run from 11pm till 2am two nights a week and my insane tiredness would not let me stay up that long. I was hoping on raiding this week, but we will jsut have to see how I feel. I am lucky to have a GL/RL that understand what I am going through. 

Sorry you had to deal with a sexist jerk during this time. I too just had a brush with someone like this in my guild and it really was upsetting. I blamed how I felt mostly on horomones but I knew he was wrong for what he did and so did the GL. The type of behavior is not right, and I feel that too many get away with it so it appears &quot;ok&quot;.  

Hope you start feeling better soon, this first trimester is a pain in the butt. If you ever want to talk/rant to anyone (this is my first pregnancy and I know how rough it can be) just send me a mail. Sarindre@gmail.com. 

Good luck and Congrats again! :)</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats to you! <img src='http://www.hotsdots.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  Sorry to catch this so late in the game, but I was just reading back through your posts when I noticed this one. It is funny because I have a very similar story to you. </p>
<p>I started a new job and a week later I found out I was pregnant. Now at 15W 5D my morning/evening/baby making me sick whenever they feel like it sickness has subsided a bit. I too took a break from 25 mans as they run from 11pm till 2am two nights a week and my insane tiredness would not let me stay up that long. I was hoping on raiding this week, but we will jsut have to see how I feel. I am lucky to have a GL/RL that understand what I am going through. </p>
<p>Sorry you had to deal with a sexist jerk during this time. I too just had a brush with someone like this in my guild and it really was upsetting. I blamed how I felt mostly on horomones but I knew he was wrong for what he did and so did the GL. The type of behavior is not right, and I feel that too many get away with it so it appears &#8220;ok&#8221;.  </p>
<p>Hope you start feeling better soon, this first trimester is a pain in the butt. If you ever want to talk/rant to anyone (this is my first pregnancy and I know how rough it can be) just send me a mail. <a href="mailto:Sarindre@gmail.com">Sarindre@gmail.com</a>. </p>
<p>Good luck and Congrats again! <img src='http://www.hotsdots.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: ZZyo</title>
		<link>http://www.hotsdots.com/2010/06/going-casual-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3298</link>
		<dc:creator>ZZyo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jul 2010 05:11:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>congrats lath! i hope all goes well~
hopefully see you in game soon hehe :D</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>congrats lath! i hope all goes well~<br />
hopefully see you in game soon hehe <img src='http://www.hotsdots.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_biggrin.gif' alt=':D' class='wp-smiley' /> </p>
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		<title>By: mogget</title>
		<link>http://www.hotsdots.com/2010/06/going-casual-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3286</link>
		<dc:creator>mogget</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 00:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey!   great news about the family... grats!
On the subject of avatars... i don&#039;t have one... I guess I don&#039;t have the skills yet to sort one out  (I am a guy after all! ), but i do agree... the exhibitionism of some guys as demonstrated in their choice of avatars is deplorable, and in this case I think the sexism maybe points to something lacking in the perpetrators self image?  &#039;nough said!
A question please... I am impressed with your Shadow Priest UI.  Could you point me in the direction of info showing how to creat such an UI?  I have seen several downlowds available from such sites as Curse, but nothing like yours.

Good luck with your new position, and the months ahead!

Rethand, on Suramar</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey!   great news about the family&#8230; grats!<br />
On the subject of avatars&#8230; i don&#8217;t have one&#8230; I guess I don&#8217;t have the skills yet to sort one out  (I am a guy after all! ), but i do agree&#8230; the exhibitionism of some guys as demonstrated in their choice of avatars is deplorable, and in this case I think the sexism maybe points to something lacking in the perpetrators self image?  &#8216;nough said!<br />
A question please&#8230; I am impressed with your Shadow Priest UI.  Could you point me in the direction of info showing how to creat such an UI?  I have seen several downlowds available from such sites as Curse, but nothing like yours.</p>
<p>Good luck with your new position, and the months ahead!</p>
<p>Rethand, on Suramar</p>
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		<title>By: natarumah</title>
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		<dc:creator>natarumah</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Jul 2010 10:41:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Wow, many congratulations!

It must be quite a turmoil with work, bun in the oven and less than fulfilling officer duties. But I hope a little cloud of a baby on the way makes things better in many ways!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Wow, many congratulations!</p>
<p>It must be quite a turmoil with work, bun in the oven and less than fulfilling officer duties. But I hope a little cloud of a baby on the way makes things better in many ways!<br />
<span class="cluv">natarumah&#8217;s last post: <a class="81a533ee72 3276" rel="nofollow" href="http://twistedfaith.wordpress.com/2010/07/02/ruby-sanctum-and-you-dance-puppet-dance/">Ruby Sanctum and you- dance- puppet dance-</a></span></p>
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		<title>By: Cynwise</title>
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		<dc:creator>Cynwise</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 20:55:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, congratulations!  Get a good mobile client and you can blog while feeding your baby, too.  I&#039;ve written many a post with a bottle in one hand.  I found it easier than raiding.

Best wishes to you and your upcoming family!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, congratulations!  Get a good mobile client and you can blog while feeding your baby, too.  I&#8217;ve written many a post with a bottle in one hand.  I found it easier than raiding.</p>
<p>Best wishes to you and your upcoming family!<br />
<span class="cluv">Cynwise&#8217;s last post: <a class="4324b18231 3270" rel="nofollow" href="http://cynwise.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/preparing-for-rated-battlegrounds/">Preparing For Rated Battlegrounds</a></span></p>
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		<title>By: Jorge</title>
		<link>http://www.hotsdots.com/2010/06/going-casual-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3255</link>
		<dc:creator>Jorge</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 10:29:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congratulations on the little blessing! (=^.^=)

If your thinking of a PVE server to play on i recommend US Hellscream :) - which is where i play on. You could add me to the real id thingy or like people are calling it facebook for wow, even if you don&#039;t  plan on visiting. But have to say that your site has supported me through this year and its been great to read and get replies on post, even aide when i felt so lost.  My email is the one above that use to post here. 

On the other half of your topic, its annoying when people act like complete douche or not put in a serious app to guilds specially if they have previous history with the guild in question. My characters are split between two guilds. One i almost helped found and another i joined to raid. So i have seen quite a bit about the rude obnoxious players,  though it does help being admin of the forums for the first one... and being just a member in the second one where i dont have to deal with it.

Ironically the first months when i started moderating and managing the forums one of our guild leaders (we had 2) decided it would be fun to play with the guild invites and allow his so called &quot;friends&quot; join and leave our guild at their leisure, members of our guild really felt lost and confused during those days where they see this people get guild invited for raids and then leave the next off day without even an explanation they get invited back and go through the whole process again. Often happening like 3 to 7 times a week. In the guild leader mind i guess since it was his guild he was doing as he pleased. It wasn&#039;t until we sat him down and explained about guild moral and how the members felt about his childish antics that he stopped and realized he was really annoying everyone in the guild. Luckily no harm was done, and he sort of grew up after that.

Anyhow i hope you get to do what you want and enjoy the first years of your little one when they come.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congratulations on the little blessing! (=^.^=)</p>
<p>If your thinking of a PVE server to play on i recommend US Hellscream <img src='http://www.hotsdots.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' />  &#8211; which is where i play on. You could add me to the real id thingy or like people are calling it facebook for wow, even if you don&#8217;t  plan on visiting. But have to say that your site has supported me through this year and its been great to read and get replies on post, even aide when i felt so lost.  My email is the one above that use to post here. </p>
<p>On the other half of your topic, its annoying when people act like complete douche or not put in a serious app to guilds specially if they have previous history with the guild in question. My characters are split between two guilds. One i almost helped found and another i joined to raid. So i have seen quite a bit about the rude obnoxious players,  though it does help being admin of the forums for the first one&#8230; and being just a member in the second one where i dont have to deal with it.</p>
<p>Ironically the first months when i started moderating and managing the forums one of our guild leaders (we had 2) decided it would be fun to play with the guild invites and allow his so called &#8220;friends&#8221; join and leave our guild at their leisure, members of our guild really felt lost and confused during those days where they see this people get guild invited for raids and then leave the next off day without even an explanation they get invited back and go through the whole process again. Often happening like 3 to 7 times a week. In the guild leader mind i guess since it was his guild he was doing as he pleased. It wasn&#8217;t until we sat him down and explained about guild moral and how the members felt about his childish antics that he stopped and realized he was really annoying everyone in the guild. Luckily no harm was done, and he sort of grew up after that.</p>
<p>Anyhow i hope you get to do what you want and enjoy the first years of your little one when they come.</p>
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		<title>By: Larísa</title>
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		<dc:creator>Larísa</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Jun 2010 09:11:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>A latecoming: grats to the job and the pregnancy!
About the avatar incident... I know what you mean. It&#039;s hard to decide where to draw the limit. But it has to be drawn somewhere. And you don&#039;t want to be THAT bitch and yet... oh well.

I hope you&#039;ll find a way to combine job, motherhood and playing WoW in a way that is interesting and fun in Cataclysm - even though it might be hard to be on the bleeding edge of raiding. But on the other hand - bleeding edge of being a parent is really soo much more epic.

Cheers!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>A latecoming: grats to the job and the pregnancy!<br />
About the avatar incident&#8230; I know what you mean. It&#8217;s hard to decide where to draw the limit. But it has to be drawn somewhere. And you don&#8217;t want to be THAT bitch and yet&#8230; oh well.</p>
<p>I hope you&#8217;ll find a way to combine job, motherhood and playing WoW in a way that is interesting and fun in Cataclysm &#8211; even though it might be hard to be on the bleeding edge of raiding. But on the other hand &#8211; bleeding edge of being a parent is really soo much more epic.</p>
<p>Cheers!</p>
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		<title>By: Angelya</title>
		<link>http://www.hotsdots.com/2010/06/going-casual-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3248</link>
		<dc:creator>Angelya</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jun 2010 02:34:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I have no useful advice to add, but I wanted to say Congratulations on both job and the lil one on the way :)
.-= Angelya&#039;s last blog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ReviveRejuvenate/~3/T9cz8jIoAUk/well-played.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;Well Played&lt;/a&gt; =-.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I have no useful advice to add, but I wanted to say Congratulations on both job and the lil one on the way <img src='http://www.hotsdots.com/wp-includes/images/smilies/icon_smile.gif' alt=':)' class='wp-smiley' /><br />
.-= Angelya&#8217;s last blog: <a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/ReviveRejuvenate/~3/T9cz8jIoAUk/well-played.html" rel="nofollow">Well Played</a> =-.</p>
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		<title>By: Anachan</title>
		<link>http://www.hotsdots.com/2010/06/going-casual-other-stuff/comment-page-1/#comment-3242</link>
		<dc:creator>Anachan</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jun 2010 20:08:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Congrats!  All my kids were born and at least a year old by the time WoW started, so I can&#039;t help you with the &quot;how to play as a new mom&quot; question.  I can, however, empathize with the morning sickness.

For me, what really helped morning sickness when I was working (first 2 pregnancies) was to nibble soda crackers.  I know, you don&#039;t feel like eating at all, but having something on the stomach really does help.

It wasn&#039;t until my 3rd child that I discovered half of my problem:  prenatal vitamins.  At the time, they dumped a whole lot of iron into the system all at once.  I stopped taking them, taking instead a regular multi-vitamin and a time-release iron vitamin, with my doctor&#039;s approval.  I had not a day of sickness after that.  (Ok, the occasional queasiness, but not full-blown, gotta-run-to-the-restroom sickness. . . . my last two pregnancies confirmed this . . . yes, I have 5 . . .)  It&#039;s something to check out, anyway--see if your prenatal vitamins are time-release or not.

Good luck!  Hopefully the sickness will go away quickly and you&#039;ll be able to settle down to enjoying the pregnancy more.  It really is a memorable time.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Congrats!  All my kids were born and at least a year old by the time WoW started, so I can&#8217;t help you with the &#8220;how to play as a new mom&#8221; question.  I can, however, empathize with the morning sickness.</p>
<p>For me, what really helped morning sickness when I was working (first 2 pregnancies) was to nibble soda crackers.  I know, you don&#8217;t feel like eating at all, but having something on the stomach really does help.</p>
<p>It wasn&#8217;t until my 3rd child that I discovered half of my problem:  prenatal vitamins.  At the time, they dumped a whole lot of iron into the system all at once.  I stopped taking them, taking instead a regular multi-vitamin and a time-release iron vitamin, with my doctor&#8217;s approval.  I had not a day of sickness after that.  (Ok, the occasional queasiness, but not full-blown, gotta-run-to-the-restroom sickness. . . . my last two pregnancies confirmed this . . . yes, I have 5 . . .)  It&#8217;s something to check out, anyway&#8211;see if your prenatal vitamins are time-release or not.</p>
<p>Good luck!  Hopefully the sickness will go away quickly and you&#8217;ll be able to settle down to enjoying the pregnancy more.  It really is a memorable time.</p>
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