Yup, I’m due in March and I ordered my insurance-provided breast pump about 2 weeks after the election. I was afraid the company wouldn’t bill and ship till 90 days out from my due date but I received it at the end of December. Wasn’t taking any chances in 2017.

I heard an anti-immigration talking head on NPR this morning say that even though we should “build a wall” we still need to have a guest-worker program for farm workers and such.

Whether to have the testing is usually determined by age/history. I’ve been over 35 for both of my pregnancies (first one a miscarriage, second one now at 26 weeks). I had the testing done for both, because of my age my insurance covered it both times, and because we had a wonky issue pop up on blood tests the second…

I’m with you... suddenly remembering the closing credits of The Big Short...

I also live in Brooklyn and felt similarly helpless. A friend of mine used to work as a lobbyist for an environmental group. She reminded me that Citizens United can work in our favor. Groups like Planned Parenthood, World Wildlife Fund, etc, are already organized and can lobby members of congress on our behalf. I…

Thank you for posting this! I’m also 5 months pregnant with my first and earlier today after reading this article I emailed my provider to find out the steps for purchasing a covered breast pump (it’s surprisingly easy, just need a prescription from my OB and then I can order through a company that has a partnership…

Ah the Javits. Putting the “Hell” in “Hell’s Kitchen” since 1978(?). (I work 2-3 trade shows a year in that pit. Neighborhood conditions have improved a bit — thank god for Gotham West Market — but I still loathe that place).

I have 4 close friends who’ve had kids in the past 5 years. Ambitious, driven women with major careers in media and the arts. None of them went back to work because childcare was so expensive/hard to find. I’m due in March, and we can’t afford our mortgage/monthly payments without both salaries. Scary thing is, I’m…

I was in college in the late ‘90s and I can think of several screaming crying fights between roommates, sparked by emails or the unauthorized reading thereof. I can’t imagine the drama that social media would have caused among my super dramarama group of friends (in the most literal sense that they were all drama…

Haha I just linked to that downthread in the grays. Caity is everything.

Reading this immediately after finishing Caity’s GQ profile of Kim K makes this profile seem sad and outdated. Vogue’s schtick is so tired. I subscribed for years (honestly, mostly for Jeffrey Steingarten), but once I hit my mid-twenties and realized how little I had in common with the socialites they love to feature,…

Oh truth. My hometown has a beautiful old Mercantile building downtown, that was occupied by the Bon Marche (“The Bon” - a fab department store out of Seattle) until they were bought out by Macy’s. It was never more than a second-tier Macy’s AT BEST, and finally the mothership just shut it down. Now this gorgeous,…

I have such a fondness for Southdale. My mom grew up very nearby, and remembers being taken to the opening. We used to visit when I was a kid, and it was so much fancier than the local mall in my hometown; it was always a huge treat to go there for a girls’ day out with mom and grandma. I still go every time I visit…

I hadn’t heard the details of this new law until today, and I feel physically ill. Just 3 weeks ago we got the dreaded call: standard fetal DNA screening (yay, Advanced Maternal Age) detected a 50% chance of a major chromosomal abnormality (often fatal, but not always). We only spent 24 hours on the back-and-forth—by…

I also switched to a toothpaste without SLS (it was a simple as switching from Colgate to Crest) because I was getting monthly, gawdawfully painful canker sores. It took me probably 5 years of suffering and research. I was dabbing those fuckers with peroxide (oh the burning) and milk of magnesia, and suffering in…

THIS! My younger brother contracted viral spinal meningitis a day or two after he was born. He was in the hospital for a week, it was touch and go. Apparently Baby G (I was 2.5) had a virus, which my mom caught, which infected Baby Bro. I was about 10 when my mom told me the story, really scary stuff; she had…

Antonio Brown is MY football boyfriend! I will never get my husband to watch the show but I will for sure watch Antonio’s clips on YouTube the next day.

Yeah I see AGI, the Weeknd, one asian lady in the front there, and my former coworker’s husband, of Indian descent, who made an animated short.

Oh yes, my dear friend was bullied into Kleinfeld by her mother and ended up with an $8K wedding dress with a bunch of add-ons like silk lining under the train (for an outdoor wedding...on grass...). There was a trunk show that day and the designer came up to the staff and said “put that girl in this dress” and that…

You are clearly my reading twin! I haven’t read White for Witching so I’m off to look for it now! I am currently reading the Old Filth trilogy by Jane Gardem (there is a box set from Europa Editions). I cannot get enough of it, fabulous stuff. I have national book award finalist A Little Life and The Big Green Tent by…