I don't know about this particular bill, but IME most abortion restrictions have an exemption in the case of the mother's health.

JUST ONCE IN MY LIFE I WANT AN OPPORTUNITY TO WEAR A GOWN LIKE THIS.

I truly hope people are aware of what ass probes they sound like when they use this sort of law office, word dancing.

Here's the catch about that: Restaurant owners likely aren't monitoring the media in the ways that people in the media industry are.

This was my thought, as well. She's more than competent, she has by all accounts been an excellent executive editor. I have a very, very hard time believing that TPTB in a newsroom would oust someone that good just because she supposedly has trouble getting along with her underlings. But like you said, I have no…

You mean a publication used an eye-grabbing visual for their cover in order to entice people to read their story?

feel like an alien hijacked my body.

Congratulations!

I'm sorry to hear about your miscarriage. Are you OK to walk for exercise? I thought that walking would be painfully boring but it was actually relaxing and meditative for me.

Said it so well! Things change once you have a kid. Your body changes, but so does your lifestyle. You have a lot of demands. So returning to the pre-kid level of activity is more difficult, but your body requires that and more to get back to where you were. Sounds like Brumfitt is saying "I'm going to resume the…

I feel you so hard. It's not just that your body is getting bigger, but it's getting bigger in somewhat strange ways. The stretch marks, the heavy boobs which, coupled with the swollen belly, made me feel like "a big breeding mammal" all drove me crazy.

I agree with you. I have a rambunctious 2-year-old who we don't allow to be badly behaved, but isn't going to win any "well behaved kid" awards because chances are he's going to be playing with things on the table, standing up in the booth, dropping food on the floor (not intentionally, just because he's two), etc. If…

To add to that: People in a restaurant are captive. If my kid is being whiny and bothering you in a store, walk away. If you need something from the same aisle as me, wait 30 seconds and I'll be gone.

She looked amazing. Girl's got better makeup game than I do. I want to have her do my eyeliner.

IT GETS BETTER I PROMISE. I do have several happy memories of his first year, but all in all I am just not a "baby" person. What's so hard is when your hormones are all fucked up and you aren't sleeping and you aren't getting the joy you expected out of caring for this bleating, energy-sucking critter, it can feel…

I had a revelation a couple weeks ago - I'm a working mom so I don't spend a lot of time in parenting groups and I kind of am making things up as I go. But whenever I went to the park with my little guy I hovered around him as he climbed up on the equipment. I finally had a playdate with another mom of kids around my…

"combination-of-intense-and-boring that newborn care is."

Toddlers are awesome. I remember when my kid was a baby and I complained about how hard/thankless it was, everyone would say "oh, it's only going to get harder!"

Yeah, what the fuck was that? "Flatter a girl's world?"

I'm so sorry. I think you're completely entitled to your frustration. As long as you aren't actually, you know, yelling at your friends to shut up, you're well within your rights to quietly seethe.