Something to know though - if you have a high risk pregnancy, many Certified Nurse Midwives will not monitor you through your pregnancy. I wanted a CNM during my pregnancy but I had twins and was considered too high risk. I got referred to an OB/GYN instead with a Maternal Fetal Medicine doctor consulting on the case.

The problem is that “midwife” in the US does not mean one standardized thing. Your Army Colonel was most likely a nurse midwife. This is a nurse who specialized in childbirth and has the equivalent of a masters degree. But a direct entry midwife or a lay midwife can call herself a midwife without any education in…

There are so many relatively minor reasons hospitals will keep babies or moms, if you have the insurance or money to pay for it. My Army hospital kept us five days after my twins were born because they were jaundiced and needed bilirubin lights. But most people I know on the civilian side got discharged after a day…

Nothing. Leave me alone with my phone, weird coffee shop guy.

Oh no! That band I kind of hate but also can’t get their songs out of my head!

Way too little and way too late, but at least something finally happened, I suppose.

I went to see it with my 11 year-old stepdaughter last night. At the end, she turned to me and asked if we could buy it as soon as it came out on Amazon Instant Video, and that Wonder Woman was now her favorite superhero, “Sorry Black Widow”. So it meant a lot to her, at least, and I’m glad DC gave that to her.

Ask her to spell “covfefe”.

This video made me question my sexuality 10 years ago.

Same. Even though the last five minutes were terrible.

I get a kind of “The Hours” vibe more than a “Virgin Suicides” vibe but that’s just me. Something about the period dress, all the pale people standing around in white, saying things with hidden meanings.

This song is about summarily rejecting structure—physical, societal

Catchier and less obnoxious than most “Song of the Summer” candidates, so sure, I’ll buy it.

So who’s starring in the inevitable romcom based on their lives?

I mean it might stop them from seeing it in theaters but you aren’t going to convince me that most teens these days can’t access their parents’ Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/HBONow accounts, and I’m willing to bet good money that teens watch more movies over those platforms than they do in theaters.

There are definitely situations when it can be rude. I’m in the Army, and we have a lot of native Spanish speakers. 95% of the time I don’t give a fuck if we’re sitting around doing nothing and people are bullshitting in Spanish. But when I start hearing my name, names of coworkers, and we’re still in the workplace?…

I always wonder how some authors seem to slip that knot and manage to avoid the label. Anne Tyler springs to mind, but of course many of her most popular works (The Accidental Tourist, Saint Maybe) focus largely on the lives of a male protagonist. Maybe that’s what made the difference in her career. (Anne Tyler is…

I was in high school when I saw this movie, circa 2000 or so, and “how do two women have sex” was definitely still a question we were asking as kids in my moderate small town. And seeing as I’ve never enjoyed Kevin Smith movies more than I did in high school.... eh, I’ll give him a pass on that one.

You put this much more eloquently than I was able to. Thank you.

I loved how Buffy dealt with depression. Those arcs rang true to me, and have stayed with me, for almost fifteen years now.