Or my aunt in upstate NY.

Zulily has some great deals. I bought most of Little Doo's Christmas presents (Frozen crap) from one of their sales.

Your body uses additional calories (I think it's around 500 per day?) to produce the milk, so supposedly if you eat healthy foods and watch your portion size, breastfeeding can result in you burning more calories than you consume. But I think a lot of it also has to do with having a newborn who needs constant…

I had such severe anxiety (I thought it was just new mom stuff) I couldn't eat. That has more than resolved itself, LOL.

Put your baby in a stroller or a carrier and just get out of the house for a while. As my aunt told me, stay on your block so you're close to home if the baby fusses. It makes such a difference to get out of the house. I'm hoping you are in a warm climate. If not, spring is coming!

I wish they would say running. All the celebrity quotes I've seen, including I think one yesterday from Mila Kunis, only credit breastfeeding. None of them cop to starvation and exercise.

A day or two after the Little Dude was born via c-section, I choked on some water (yes, I am graceful that way). I wanted to die. I don't know which was worse, the coughing or trying not to cough.

I'm taking a stab in the dark that maybe she actually had diverticulitis, not allergies.

My personal experience has been that New York City is very different from other parts of the country when it comes to swearing. I'll never forget when my boss and I visited our company's NYC office, and one of the (male) accountants walked up to him and said "Matt, you fucker, how have you been?" Mentally, I was…

Upstate New Yorkers do it too. All my family in the Albany area call it a pocketbook and not a purse. My aunt also always uses the term dungarees, never jeans.

I hope they all got gallstones and kidney stones, and had to pass them without pain relief in accordance with god's plan.

Good point. Our local high school sports teams periodically have e-waste recycling/shredding/ car wash fundraisers. I went to one last year and I couldn't believe how young the kids looked. I would have sworn they were middle-schoolers, not high schoolers, but I'm an Old.

I was thinking the same thing. I look like a sack of potatoes in anything form-fitting, forget about wearing a merkini.

Oh, and my ex husband was your average white guy on the dance floor, but at least he cared enough to try to bring me to orgasm every time we had sex. I'd take average sex with him over lousy sex with the dancer any day.

I briefly dated a guy who was an awesome dancer but a selfish, untalented prick in bed.

Yes! The best one I've ever had was one we bought off of the back of a farmer's truck in Benton, Missouri. By the time we got home, the whole trunk smelled like delicious, ripe cantaloupe. I still remember how wonderful it was and it's been 25(?) years.

There are also women that the urine pregnancy test doesn't work for. A friend is a nurse, and she took a few pregnancy tests that came back negative. She was 6 months along when her husband said "Hey, you're stomach is supposed to flatten out when you're laying down, and it's not. You should go see a doctor." It…

One day I got the brilliant idea that I would trim Little Doo's bangs. I placed her in front of the TV so that she would sit still. Unfortunately since I towered above her (and I cut them while they were wet), they ended up extremely short and at a noticeable angle. I've never touched her hair again.

The Little Dude was born 6 weeks and 2 days early back in June, and he weighed in at 3 lbs 14 oz. He's now 6 months old and is up to 15 lbs. No issues so far other than he is outgrowing GERD.

I don't doubt that she had the IUD in and got pregnant with her 3rd, I just doubted that she had it the entire time she was pregnant with the 4 year old.