Happy birthday!

Just FYI, female animals are spayed, male animals are neutered.

For what it's worth, I could see myself using that chocolate pot for all sorts of delicious meltable things, and I love the design. Do I have $60 worth of love for it? Nope. But I might have $10 worth of clearance love for it someday.

Lotte Verbeek, also ... (the actress who plays Geilis Duncan). Yes, I agree.. I prefer him with the adorable hobbit bangs.

"It's hard to really know how to feel about situations where I remember feeling a lot of agency but look back on it with a kind of queasy feeling."

He did have some low blood sugar, and I believe there was some other issue...slight jaundice, or iron. I forget to be honest, it's all a major blur. Their concern may also have had something to do with his low birth weight (5.5 lbs at full term, possibly due to my celiac issues.) Given that I didn't even see him until…

Even if your friend was only kept an additional day in the hospital, that can be an incredible expense if you don't have maternity coverage. I am due to give birth next month and have a prepaid cash maternity package with our hospital. If I had to stay an additional day, that would be at least $600 more that I'd have…

Yes, this.

We wind up having all boys except for our sons' cousin, mainly because by some freak of nature, all of our friends (and therefore our sons' friends) have had between two and three boys, with no girls. This may change next year, as our oldest enters kindergarten this week.

I'd much rather see the show "find" a long-lost time lady and have the doctor have an equal companion than change his gender.

And they're merging!

Sooo yeah, that would have still weirded out. Being comfortable around a nursing mother and actually touching the breast of a stranger are not and the same!

Come to think of it, their nose, mouth, and chin are very similar.

Why not? It's what most places do when they force you to do it in the restroom, astride one of the toilets, which generally don't have lids. And with my first, I did... Or I hid in the car. By the time I had my second, I had gotten good enough to do it without flashing anyone, and would just sit wherever.