I really believe that the gift of your time is much more valuable to your mom than a spa treatment or something similar. What you are planning sounds amazing. Life is long, there will be other years, and maybe one of them you can give her something pricey, but I really doubt she will think that is better (based on the…

Yes. We didn't decide on the name until we were being kicked out of the hospital after he was born. We had two names, one which I and my entire family preferred, and the other which he and his entire family preferred. We ended up going with the latter, which only ended up being ok because I had originally proposed…

You seem blissfully unaware of the irony of a millennial coming into the comment section of this article to bemoan kids these days. :)

Yes, we have, and I love them. I was just coming here to comment on them.

Oh, man, I did something similar to my parents. I was having really bad, sharp stomach pains and my mom is a nurse so I called crying to ask if I should go to the emergency room. Not the best way to find out you're going to be grandparents. :/

I'm not one of those parents who thinks my kid is a genius. :) He is absolutely fascinated by the tag on his stuffed animal, which is cute but...

I don't care what these parents do, but I think there is a big difference between not giving a baby sweets and denying a child sweets to the point he/she becomes a hoarder. My son is almost 11 months old and he hasn't had any sweets. I doubt we will give him any on his first birthday— he won't understand it or realize…

I assumed they changed it because it was so close to Arya, but either way it is stupid.

Don't worry! Mine has never slept through the night, so maybe yours is just better about sleep overall. :)

I am picturing a New Yorker cover cartoon of a NYC street scene where all of the people are replaced by Yorkies— Yorkies driving buses, Yorkies panhandling, Yorkies walking pit bulls, etc.

The thing about New York real estate is that, more than cheaper places, you are really going to have to compromise on something. Or, as a friend of mine put it, there's always something shitty about everything here. I have been renting apartments in NYC since I graduated from college, which was a number of years…

Yeah, the four top teeth came in together sometime between his 8th and 9th month. That was a horrific few weeks. He went back to waking up every two hours and was basically screaming all the time. I'm hoping he sticks with six for a while now...

Not necessarily, mine has had six teeth since he was 9 months.

Everyone is different, so whatever, I'm not judging. For me, personally, I don't like the idea because it implies that the baby is a gift I gave him, and now he's giving me one in return. That's my baby, too, buddy! I did it just as much for me as for him. But I'm also not crazy about the "baby is gift enough!"…

My husband brought barbeque. :)

I am a total baby about pain (never gotten any piercings, for example, because I was afraid). But in my opinion, the raising of the kid is worse. By the time I was in labor, I was in constant (albeit relatively mild) pain from carrying the baby and just wanted it out of me. And labor is relatively short compared to…

The reason you are getting this kind of reaction is that whenever the topic is cosmetics, there are men who make roughly the same comment. Often, and I am not accusing you of this, when you interact with them further, it turns out that they feel mystified that the women they know continue to wear make-up, as if their…

Ha! I'm imagining the ground being sticky like in movie theaters and ball parks.

When this new system started, there were a couple of times when I forgot that I needed to expand the replies in order to see them, so I did that exact thing and then felt like a total ass. So maybe that partially explains it, if someone is new or doesn't comment often?

This is an amazing tip about layering the sheets in the crib, and I am kicking myself that it never occurred to me!