"Get the government out of my fucking snatch."

Looks like Saddam Hussein .

I was talking about people in general. Although I was responding to your reply, my thoughts were in no way meant to be directed at you. I realize you were just sharing your experience.

Yes, that is another good point though, that the wetness can lead to irritation/rashes.

I wasn't meaning to :-) No hate for the gluten free here, especially those with CD.

I know about them and as I recall I seriously considered them. I think I may have gone with regular cloth for cost and because we had all the cover hand-me-downs :-) I remember it being a good system, not without its issues, but kind of a nice hybrid option.

She's KILLING it in the new season of Veep. I am so in love with that show and her shit-talking zingers.

OMG you poor thing. I can't imagine. I was SO far along and he was HUGE (9 lbs +) and I'm pretty small (at the time I was like "why oh why did I procreate with a tall person?"). They weren't even able to measure his head on the ultrasound, it was so large. He had one leg pointing downward, my fluids were super low and…

Yes, but that time suck would be better for the environment. Which just loops back to the same response—stop with the judgement and justifying and qualifying what is better. You can ALWAYS do something better. The fact is, per cupcake above, there's not as drastic an environmental difference between the two as people…

Excellent point.

We used a local service and I believe I just got the Gerber diapers from Target. Like breastfeeding, it certainly can be a cost savings, no doubt. That said, with cloth there are also all the covers and crap that most parents buy. We had hand-me-downs.

I loathe the use of "natural" in regard to childbirth/child-rearing. I was very careful to frame my desire for an un-medicated birth (something I did not end up with) as just that, un-medicated.

This is true. But, do you have a kid? I know a lot of parents who successfully used cloth diapers and we were all set up to do the same with our son. It lasted about a month because, well...cloth diapers are not absorbent and our son woke up multiple times a night because of a wet diaper. We ended up transitioning…

"It really burns my noodle when people who have benefited from good luck, good health care and/or won the genetic lottery take their good fortune as proof that they have somehow found the Holy Grail of parenting, and proselytize whatever kinky path they've taken as The Way."

Damn, if I had only been eating more gluten free muffins, that pesky PPD wouldn't have flared up. And, I bet it was the coffee I drank while pregnant that caused my son to spaz out and flip into a footling breech position at 41 weeks, requiring me to have section. Better luck next time!

Small world! That's a great engineering program, from what I understand. My dad got his PhD in chem (of the non engineering variety) from UCD!

I think I may have gotten it from I Fucking Love Science. If you haven't already, like them on FB. It's life changing!

You're not understanding what I am saying. When I say "Fashion" I simply mean industry, as opposed to viewing fashion more conceptually, academically and focusing on the intersections of art, commerce, and culture, among other things. It's not a distinction between what is "fashionable" and what is not.

Yes, well there is fashion, and then there's Fashion. That said, you're right about the industry, access is not hard to come by. WWD, Vogue and countless others put collections up pretty quickly, and you can easily pay for access to a trend service site, which provide tons of detailed runway shots. Some bloggers are…

With the exception of Tavi perhaps, fashion bloggers never wrote critically about fashion, though. These were street style photographers or lifestyle bloggers, for the most part. I always saw the lifting of the barriers as having more to do with the impact of social media overall (of which bloggers were early…