Ugh. Okay. The point of this article obviously wasn't "moms don't actually do much."

Whoa. THAT just blew my mind.

Yeesh, I want to say abortion is illegal in Italy, but I'm too lazy to look it up myself. I think Italy also has weird laws about who can receive IVF and other reproductive technologies, like you can't be over the age of 35, can't be single... Those kooky Catholic countries.

Not sure what the deal would be in Italy, but in the U.S., it's a pretty hazy minefield. By law, a birth mother is considered the legal mother, even if the baby doesn't have any of her genetic material. That said, there have been cases of surrogate mothers who tried to sue to keep the baby but lost. The infamous Baby…

I don't think the solution is to just stop having a discussion about our medical system over-prescribing drugs, which goes beyond just pain killers. If this was just a case of pregnant women needing pain killers, we probably wouldn't have seen such a steep rise in the number of them filling prescriptions—nor would we…

It's not just her doctor—long-term studies have found links between acetaminophen use during pregnancy and a nearly four-fold increase in the likelihood of having a child that's later diagnosed with ADHD. Everything I've read has said that Ibuprofen is the safest pain reliever.

"Opioids and other very strong painkillers are not for 2-year-olds"

Omg, I was just complaining about this to my husband. One of my friends who complains about baby pics on FB posts so many pictures of her dogs—who I love, but for God's sake, she literally just posted a picture of her dog in a box. Just that—her chihuahua mix was sitting in a shallow box. And it's like—that's cool,…

And that totally sucks because pregnancy and new parenthood are such monumentally life-changing events! I was just reading an article last night on how humans are one of the only mammals (aside from mice and some other high order primates) whose bodies are LITERALLY taken over by the fetus (due to a unique hemochorial…

That's why I had to stop reading HuffPo. It seemed like every time I went on the site/app, there was a headline about horrible parents doing something horrible to a child, and after my son was born, I began obsessively reading every story and crying for hours afterward. And then I just had to stop going on the…

At first, this didn't sound too awful. It sounded obnoxious, but not TOO HORRIBLE. And then I read this guy's nasty ass comment—and then looked at the Tumblr page—and fuck if it's not just its own version of Creepshots. It's just another way to remind women that their bodies are for display and they have no right to…

Selective breeding is the process of taking two same-species animals or plants with desirable characteristics and breeding them to produce another animal/plant with those characteristics.

"it would just confuse and frighten uninformed people."

You know what really fries my nads? Whenever a male celebrity is caught cheating, he always just has some kind of "sex addiction." David Duchovny did the same thing. But shit man, let's just call it what it is: you're famous, you can get poon where ever, whenever, so you're taking advantage of your celebrity status…

Thanks, it wasn't all of them but I definitely noticed a trend among some of my childless-by-choice friends. Those particular ones also felt entitled to jump all over me about the name we picked out (Edwin—that's not a totally pretentious name, right? Am I crazy?).

god this sounds just like that study that found that managers and supervisors are more likely to imagine that their employees who are mothers are chronically late and frequently leave early even though hr records prove the opposite to be true.

My family once crossed paths with former California governor Gray (Grey?) Davis in an airport in Burbank, CA. My mother is an avowed Republican, but she politely shook his hand and said "hello, Mr. Davis." Later, she told all of her friends and family about how she glared at him and icily shook his hand while saying…

Oh, man... You can't leave me hanging like that.

SPLASH4EVA!

In my own observations, I've found it depends on the type of person getting the dog and what stage of life they're in. I know two women who got new pets because they were done having babies and they had that baby itch, but they adopted and they're awesome pet owners. Then I know two women who got dogs because they…