I’m creepy in my desire for trick or treaters. I swear...COME TO ME YOU LITTLE GOBLINS! I WANT TO GAWK AND MAKE YOU PERFORM TRICKS FOR TREATS!

When my aunt was in her 20’s and a huge stoner she wrote a letter to Smarties telling them that white Smarties taste the best and all Smarties should be white. They sent her a 20 lb. case of white Smarties. She doesn’t really eat Smarties anymore.

OMG...This is horrific. Also as a stay at home dad raising a Toddler with a death wish and a teething 5month old....I can understand where that person is coming from. But FOR FUCKS-SAKE don’t do it! Put the child somewhere safe (crib?) and take a 10 minute breather; drink a tall glass of red wine. Come back and usually…

I went to a women’s college for undergrad and got my M.B.A. there as well. There were tons of women who brought their babies and children to class. The kids were always well behaved and if the babies ever made noise the women would step out with them and only return when they were calm. It was awesome. It wasn’t…

So, because one woman somewhere can’t bring her kid to work, we should deny the women in my office the option of bringing their kids to work, even though they’ve been doing it for ages, with no consequences? I’ll walk down my hallway, and tell Maggie to get the kids out, because it’s not fair to Target Lady that…

I just think of a while back when Stephen Curry had his daughter on his lap at the post-game press conference. Then, it was “So cute!” that he was “such an involved dad”. This woman has a small child, a babysitter, AND a plan in place in case of distractions, and that’s not good enough. Blergh.

Ahhhhh there it is. Was just scrolling and waiting for someone to compare parents to pet owners. That never fails to destroy my day.

No. Excluding breastfeeding mothers from professional spaces is a specific mechanism for keeping women out of the workplace. If you force women to obtain childcare or not attend, you are systematically going to exclude particularly low-income and middle class women. Places like this conference should be *especially*…

When your country decides to actually provide decent paid maternity leave, then perhaps we’ll talk. Till then....nope. You don’t get to whine about this.

I used to comment regularly on Jezebel for years (under a different name) and stopped because of the feeling the author describes when someone she assumed would be an ally made her feel unwelcome.

Oh for fuck’s sake. The attitude that you can’t go to someplace without your kid because it’s “professional” and that you need to have a babysitter or child-keeper at all times is anti-feminist to the core and supports notions that the only people who “deserve” to reproduce are the affluent.

Thanks for explaining the difference. I had thought that the term ‘midwife’ alone meant training and certification. It's horrifying that someone can call themselves a midwife with no medical training.

This: If I hadn’t been having a scheduled section my second time around, I would definitely have preferred a CNM to a regular OB... they are much less quick to go into panic mode... I ended up with a 4th degree episiotomy and a cervical tear the first time around due to Pitocin ( I was VERY stupid and young... didn’t…

To any lay midwives reading this:

AHHH! So awesome! I am also in the 2 Babies Club. (And, more specifically, in the “2 and Through Club.” I thought I wanted three, but it turns out I really, really don’t.)

I doubt this woman is a licensed and trained midwife. She is probably just someone from the church who attends births. Regardless, if you are in labor 2 months early, YOU GO TO THE HOSPITAL. That’s not really the same thing to me as a parent whose child maybe has a fever and they don’t realize how serious it is. No…

All I know is that one time when I was 14, I was being a total bitch to my mother as we were walking down Oxford St in London. Instead of getting cross and telling me I was being an asshole, my mother (a creature of mirth and magic and farts) proceeded to drop her shopping bags and began to perform a jig. It was a…

Even. If. Vaccines. Did. Cause. Autism. Which. They. Do. Not. An. Autistic. Child. Is. Still. An. Alive. Child.

I am with my kids all day, every day from 7am to 7pm. I am not worried about “missing out” because I'm texting my brother while they play. I'm so sick of this crap. My mother wasn't staring at me the whole time I was growing up, and thank goodness for that. Who wants to sit and watch fucking soccer practice? We always…

My niece walked in on me changing my tampon and I said something like “Oh hi, I’m having my period.” Her alarmed reply: “AGAIN!? BUT YOU SAID IT HAPPENED WHEN YOU WERE TWELVE!”