That is my worst nightmare. I hope you can get some help from your doctor. Make him take you seriously! I also hope that it is like a lot of nausea and will go away once the second trimester starts.

There’s someone I don’t get along with and I kind of wished for something mildly difficult to happen to her (like, not illness or anything truly bad, just a challenge that I had faced so that maybe she would get a little empathy or at least stop being so self-centered) and it did and now I feel like an asshole.

I had my identity stolen and it is a huge pain in the ass. I’m sorry that happened to you. Call up the credit bureaus and explain the situation and ask them how to proceed to get it off your report. You may have to file a police report (it was a long time ago so the details are murky for me— horrible memory— but I do…

I read Girl in a Band and enjoyed it. I felt kind of off-kilter reading it, though, like I could never pin down if I liked her or if I wanted to roll my eyes at her. I also felt like the overall tone of it was very sad, which I haven’t really experienced with a memoir before.

I’m breastfeeding right now, so it is half a glass with dinner if I can time it so I feed the baby right before dinner. Sometimes if I am not too tired I will have another half glass after I’ve put him down for the night.

I once slapped a baby* because there was a bug on it. It was a reflex; as soon as I saw the bug my brain just shut off. Fortunately the baby was fine. Unfortunately so was the bug. :/

With my first I couldn’t stomach the idea of sleep training. I didn’t even feel ready to move him out of our room at three months, which was when we planned to do it. He was and is a terrible sleeper, and has slept through the night maybe 8 times his entire life (he’s almost three now). He slept in our bed for a long…

In a similar vein, someone gave us an earthenware (i.e., breakable) piggy bank from Tiffany when our first son was born. If that isn’t the ultimate in first child delusional shopping I don’t know what is.

I love the stroller so goddamn much, I don’t care that it’s looked down on by the crunchy baby-wearing types. I mean, now I don’t have to carry groceries because I can just throw them under the stroller! We take our kid to the grocery store even when we don’t have to just so that we can bring the stroller to carry the…

This is my chance to ask about Eileen Fisher. Because I see their ads and think the clothes look really nice, but are they actually intended for people closer to my mom's age (I am mid-30s)? And also do they not really suit people who aren't extremely slender models?

I have children and I don’t get it either.

On the plus side, I think if a bird poops on you it's supposed to be good luck.

My 2.5-year-old already gets a lot of joy from his brother (3 months). He hugs, kisses, and tickles him, gets down on the floor next to him for tummy time, gets super excited when the baby smiles at him, etc. It's very cute. It helps that the older one was a horrible sleeper and the second one is pretty good, so this…

I'm just offended by the word "honeyfund". It's almost as bad as "babymoon".

You're right. Technically, since the shower is pretty explicitly a gift grab, you shouldn't have been invited to both. But I also think your husband has a point about not dying on this hill, unless you want to die here. If your MIL is really crazy about gift stuff, get something smallish for each shower and be done…

People like your friend are why I always open all of the files students submit as soon as I get them to make sure there's actually a paper there.

We're lucky in that we met in our thirties, so we were already somewhat established financially and career-wise. So when we talked about how many kids we wanted, the financial side of things wasn't an unknown variable like it would have been if we had been younger. We knew we could afford two and that is the absolute…

We have an almost 3 years and a 3 month old. The first few weeks are so rough. It got a lot easier when the baby hit 2 months. I'm really nervous for the day they are both mobile. :/

Can you bring the 15-month old into the bathroom in a bouncy chair or something? That has worked for me— the kid being able to see me and hear me talking to him is enough to buy the time for a quick shower. Today I did that with my 3 month old while the older one napped, but I've done that with the older one too.

I know someone whose older sister went to the college of her choice, and my friend had to go to the college where their mom taught because of the tuition discount. It was a good school, but she really resented not being given the chance to go away from her home like her sibling had. And another friend had an older…