Winter please do go and get checked out. Wake your DP if necessary!
Monkey, I wonder if the white blister is a Montgomery's tubercule? If so it's totally normal, just your body getting ready for breastfeeding.
AnnaRose, your description of your know-it-all friend really made me laugh.
Yeah the gender expectation thing starts mad early, it's fascinating to witness and possibly difficult to obliterate entirely even in your own parenting and even when you think you're being on the ball about it. Tiny stuff like automatically calling various teddies 'he' as opposed to 'she'. And dd told me the other day that while I was a 'big girl', her father was a 'man' 
. Had to set the record straight on that one!
At the same time, I'm wary of becoming (to borrow Posy's word) too much of a crank about it. The reason being is that I have 3 sisters and, growing up, I was hands-down the girliest girl of the lot - this, despite the fact that my parents were resolute about giving us only good gender-neutral toys (lego, fisher price) to play with and positively frowning on cheap glittery plastic girly shit. The result was that I craved the cheap glittery plastic girly shit. Desired it beyond anything! I was also much more into fashion, magazines, make-up, etc. than my sisters growing up - again, this was implicitly frowned on, I had to sneak what I could. But now that we're all grown up, I'd say that while I might still be more 'girly' than my sisters, I'm also easily the most militantly openly feminist in my principles. So, I try not to obsess about it too much unless I feel like there's a loss of balance sliding in.
All of that said, my DD is still only 2 and I know that all of this stuff is going to get a lot more pressing once she's at school. Right now, we don't actually have any glittery shit in the house and I wouldn't be too happy if we did (yes, after me defending it and all!). Also, if DH and I had any backbone we'd do as (I think?) weeonion does and ban TV apart from DVDs or Netflix etc because the ads on the kids' channels are just appalling. I was taking count one day and the ratio of ads for girls' cheap plastic glittery shit to boys' toys is about 5:1. And actually, the 1 is usually a gender-neutral toy like Uno cards. The marketing companies really do recruit girls into insecurity from babyhood.
BUT I am a fallible and lazy parent at times and I will often take the route that gets me a bit of peace and quiet - namely, Peppa Pig 
It reminds me of the chemicals conversation earlier - wipes vs cotton wool. When I had DD at the hospital I had cotton wool and a little bowl for water packed in my bag, all ready to be used on her bum. She was born around 3.30pm and didn't do her first poo until around 2am. I had just drifted off to sleep after being awake for nearly 40 hours and when she woke and started crying in her little cot I was blundering around like an idiot in the dark trying to find stuff. And meconium (babies' first poo) goes everywhere. I didn't know whether I was 'allowed' turn on my light and was scared of pissing off the other mothers, so just grabbed a pack of sample wipes I had in my handbag and cleaned her up ASAP before anyone could come and tell me off for using nasty chemicals on my new-born's skin. Then I put her into bed beside me to make her stop crying, which again I knew was not the 'right' thing to do but it was definitely the fastest thing to do...
So mostly I just muddle along and try to keep an eye on the balance of things overall. Parenting is such a minefield these days - I wonder was it always thus? What really scares me is thinking of my kids being online. Those of you with older children, how do you manage that?
Happy Friday, everyone!