Wut. You guys. Like, really—wut.

it’s becoming more open to models of all genders but not familiar enough to know that a cheap joke about an ostensibly trans or gender fluid person’s genitalia is retrograde bitchassness.

From the article

I’m pretty sure there are times where I don’t want to walk in on my boys when they are teens... ;)

I can second that. And I still haven’t been able to convince my husband that it really *does* bother me more than him when daughter is crying. He keeps saying I’m just soft :)

All female household...I have heard about them. I hear it can get ugly. lol! I am getting a taste now that my mother lives with me. As I tell my boys, I am married TWICE at the same time don’t mess with me!

Enjoy them being young. Raising teenagers is, well...you know how much it sucked to be a teenager? Parents hate it too. And I have two sons, so it has caused a very strange and tense Male vs. Female dynamic in the house. She goes off on them and they look at me like, “yo, can’t you handle your woman or something???”

I also wasn’t a parent and TERRIFIED of waking them up hahaha. I usually just looked for the little rising bellies.

My boys are 14 and 16. My wife is a heavy sleeper. Call her name...nothing. But I say, “mommy?” in a high pitched little kid voice and she will sit bolt upright in bed, “huh?!?!? What?”

It’s sad you call yourself “lucky” that that the people caring for your babies actually put in the effort to care for them. This poor wee thing.

Depends on the study. I can’t get the latest one I saw recently because it’s behind a paywall, but Sakiko Tanaka of Columbia University found that every ten weeks of paid maternal leave cuts the infant mortality rate by 2.6%.

She didn’t want to leave the baby.

That’s just it...she didn’t have the CHOICE to not go back to work. Some parents want to go back to work when the kid is 3 mo old and that’s cool.

Before everyone goes “It was SIDS, you can’t plan for SIDS!” -

“The cause was undetermined" means SIDS.

Fair. Any “less bad” she might feel is marginal because her grief is unimaginably vast. But I would guess if you know “checking on the baby” was the potential difference between life and death, it might be something you wish you didn’t have to delegate to someone else.

Implication is that he died of SIDS and one of the daycare workers placed him on his side to sleep, which puts him at increased risk of SIDS. If not placed on his side to sleep, he might not have died of SIDS. His mother knew to place him on his back. QED, if he’d stayed home with his mother, he might be alive today.

I mean, do they know what causes SIDs though? I thought it was a catchall for when healthy kids died for unexplained reasons.

Yes it’s all her fault for not checking on licensing. That is what this article is all about.

Read the article last night - the daycare had come recommended by multiple people they knew. Often that is enough for people.