Not just parents and their children either; my understanding is that it’s common among siblings who weren’t raised together as well.

I don’t care much for his humor either but I don’t have a huge problem with him poking fun at people in power. Also, I loved his Golden Globes commercial that poked fun at the ceremony itself “SO watch it, if you don’t have anything better to do, for FOUR hours.”

You said your little one is 20 months though, right? I totally get wanting your body back by that point. My first self weaned at just before 10 months (which I now know was almost certainly due to his oral sensory issues) but I nursed my second until 23 months. I would have nursed longer but I knew I wanted to wean…

You actually can’t give a kid under 12 months everything they need nutritionally without breastmilk or at least formula. It’s particularly the fatty acids in the milk that are absolutely crucial for brain development. Cows milk just doesn’t have the right balance and although goats milk is a little better it’s still…

Yeah, my kids are stupid healthy too. My oldest is almost 7 and has never needed antibiotics, the second is 4 and has been on them twice (topical for thrush when she was about 6 months old and oral for suspected Lyme when she was 3), and the 9 month old has never had them either. They’ve also barely been sick with…

I always dread the transition to solid foods because it’s so much easier to nurse than to feed a 7 month old!

You do know that some babies are born with teeth, right? As someone who has pumped and nursed babies with teeth (my 9 month old has 8 teeth already) I can tell you that pumping is a lot harder and a lot more uncomfortable.

No, their duty is to defend their client, they do not have to get them to take a deal or plead guilty even if they know they are guilty. They’re not allowed to “suborn perjury”, that is, encourage their client or anyone else to lie under oath or ask them a question on the stand if they know they’re going to lie in…

I never had supply issues thankfully but between the nursing and all the skin to skin time you’re supposed to do the front of my shirt was open a lot those first few months (completely shirtless was not an option since all of mine were born in colder weather).

There are definitely some heath benefits to the child pretty much indefinitely (which is why the WHO says “at least two and as long as mutually desired” or something like that) but as far as I can tell they’re minimal once you hit 3/4/5 etc provided that you live in a place with good sanitation and have access to…

Oh god yes

“People” don’t want to think about breast fulfilling their actual biological function, they only want to think of them as “fun bags” to quote Ms. Williams herself.

That 6 month minimum is for exclusively breastfeeding, the recommendation from the AAP is that you continue to breastfeed while adding solid foods until at least a year and the WHO says you should continue to breastfeed in addition to solids until at least 2. The idea of 5 as the biological age for weaning has to do…

I don’t have any really nice stories but I’ve breastfed in public tons without issue (we’re in MD).

The visual of Ted Cruise using erasable ink like an 8 year old made me giggle.

All women? No. Her in particular? Probably. Also, she didn’t say “child(ren)“ she said “pregnancy”. Unless you’re already very established as an actress a pregnancy or pregnancies can have a very detrimental effect on your career (and does sometimes even if you are established).

My 6 year old son is extremely high functioning autistic and I was really nervous that when he started Kindergarten he would walk out of the bathroom at school with his pants down to ask the teacher for help wiping so that was a skill we really worked on.

First off we’re too spread out and travel is too expensive. Anyone in France can hop a train and be in the capital in a matter of hours for not very much money. Secondly most people are terrified of losing their jobs and we don’t have anything like the time off that French people do.

My husband is 100% in the target demographic for that movie and his response to the trailer was basically “WTF did they do that for!?” And you’re right, they absolutely could have had a more diverse cast. After all they’re clearly targeting the same audience as the Fast and Furious movies which had very diverse casts.

The fact that that movie got made with that cast is the perfect example of the problem. As far as I can tell it occurred to no one involved in the producing/directing/casting etc to do anything besides cast white people. If they had I assume the response to the uproar about it would have been some weak excuse that “we…