People already use enough keurig cups to circle the earth. Please no especially not for a nephew. If you can’t make formula with powder and water, you are essentially useless.

Your kid will sleep on the floor and play with wooden spoons. Don’t sweat it.

Both my babies did not give a shit about sophie.

Oh my god how fucking stupid. Fyi you can get packs of gerber cloth diapers for like $12 for 6 at target.

Ok, I make the formula before I go to bed. I also never ever warmed a bottle in my life so that my babies wouldn’t get used to it, so they never did, and they always took/take their night time bottles. Am I doing something terribly wrong? I’ve never had any trouble with bottle feeding at all. Breastfeeding, while…

I make formula with powder it’s easy. What’s the problem?

Nursing is a lot of work. They eat all day and often fall asleep on you. It can feel like prison.

It’s not selfish or stupid. It’s pretty much how it’s done. For me, I had a kid by accident that was wanted, and then I was stricter but still not perfect, and almost immediately had a second unplanned pregnancy. I realized then that if I didn’t use bc, I’d be one of those women with 20 kids, and I got serious and got…

Yeah honestly most people I know are ambivalent about it. And that’s because you can never prepare for a baby. There is never a right time. There are definite WRONG times, but there really is no right time.

Completely agreed. Medical necessity is not an ambivalent situation. So glad to hear you are doing better!

It was a leap of faith, for you and for everyone, regardless of what’s in the bank. Congratulations on your family!

Yes. A lot of us won’t admit to wanting kids because we know we are not rich enough by society’s standards. I have 2 kids now in spite of my circumstances and I have no regrets. You know who else is really happy about it? My parents. My poverty stricken kids are so far their only grandkids because the 3 other kids…

Exactly. Everybody thinks there is a perfect way to be, a perfect lifestyle, a perfect parenting style. What a load of shit. Once upon a time, people from Eurasia migrated across a land bridge to arrive in the Americas - it took them god knows how long and under god knows what kind of terrible conditions and you know…

I have to disagree. What you say makes rational sense but let’s break it down. For most of human history, babymaking has been essentially compulsory given how we behave as animals and also given the ways in which our many cultures developed. It’s also fair to say that for most of human history, based on circumstance,…

I’m not saying you don’t have a point but I think it’s also worth saying that the author is talking about the type of vague, unexpressed, deep, hidden, irrational emotions that all of us, rich and poor alike, harbor regardless of circumstance. I live in a low income neighborhood because I am low income. I am on…

ah, reading comprehension. Well if you’re still enough of an internal adolescent to give a shit about other people judging you for using daycare in a country which requires double income households, you need to work on your emotional maturity.

I think they are referring to the parents savings on the cost of childcare. I’m poor and have no family to help with my kids. My family’s options are: subsidized childcare if we can get it or my husband stops working. We have subsidized childcare at the moment and it is a huge blessing.

I used to work at a poorly funded/managed yet highly successful magazine where all of us were criminally underpaid. An editor there (who also worked weekends as a bartender) once recounted after we were all told that we’d have to take a paycut, that she complained to her EIC and the EIC told her “well couldn’t you ask…

This is always my go to counterpoint and nobody ever gives a shit. They just hate the poor.

Maybe you wouldn’t, maybe you would. You’ll never know. I was raised by a single mom and my father remarried and had 2 more kids. Every year I set myself back about 3 months paying for the holiday trip home and then a few years ago when I had a kid, it just became a financial impossibility. So my dad offers to pay and…