Boobs!

Well...THAT got your attention. I thought it might. Don't get too excited. This is another frustrated parenthood post.

For years, my teenage daugher has been wanting to order these pills she sees advertised in the back of magazines which are supposed to increase bust size. Ahhh...things never change. I remember when I was 17 and bemoaning my lack of curves. (I'm 40-something and still doing it.) I told her that the only pill that would increase her bust would be some kind of hormone pill - like birth control pills. And hormone pills would not continue to work once a person stopped taking them (as the magazine pills claimed to do).

Fast forward.

We were eating dinner the other night and it hit me, her boobs are bigger. I'd found myself thinking that recently, but shrugging it off. She was wearing a tank top and clearly, she was bustier. So I asked, "Are you taking birth control pills?" She was sort of taken aback by the question, but she said yes. She'd gone with a friend to Planned Parenthood. Her friend had experienced a "false alarm" and decided birth control was in order. My daughter said she just wanted bigger boobs. Call me a sucker, but I believe her when she tells me she's not having sex. (at least not yet...) But my 17-year-old daughter is on the pill and that freaks me out.

Condom wrappers, birth control pills, murdered bunnies...crap this parenthood stuff is difficult!