This is the correct face to make whilst being pet by Her Majesty.

So scared of that! I use iMessage and I turned off all notifications - it used to show me part of the message, and I was so worried it’d be one of my coworkers writing about our boss!

Are you gchatting at work on your company’s computers? Then you’re not “off the record” most likely. Surely you know this.

And yet still not actually comparable to genocide.

Dear Pluto,

This is awesome and so accurate. The popularity of research into “resilience” has gotten a ton of traction in recent years, but the truth is it shakes out to be another way to blame cycles of poverty on impoverished individuals rather than the institutions and power dynamics holding them back in the first place.

I’m an old, and I’ll say it- halle-freaking-lujah.

okay wait what is the woman’s remote

I had a missed miscarriage with my first pregnancy. Even though I was heartbroken and having horrible contractions, my male obgyn told me that I was being overly dramatic and that the dead fetus would come out eventually. After watching me suffer for 3 days my husband couldn’t stand it and rushed me to the ER. The…

“I used to think ONLY MEN are competent OBs, and now I think ONLY WOMEN are competent OBs!”

I’m a birth doula, and I’ve been to somewhere approaching 150 births. I’ve worked with obstetricians, family doctors, midwives, and nurses, home births, birthing centre births, hospital births. Whether the caregiver is male or female, mothers and their partners value being listened to and respected. So much about…

My dad was one of the first male midwive’s in the country. He and my mom owned a home birth service for years. Pretty much irrelevant to the story but I think it’s pretty cool.

The tone of this article is very odd.

That’s as far as I got when I was hoping someone was gonna offer a TL;DR version up in this shizzat.

It would be such a great Kinja invention to be able to a) block specific user comments and b) block by topic tag. I don’t know what the tag would be for “Mommy Stories from the 1950s through the Haze of Nostalgia,” but I would like there to be one. If my eyes hadn’t fallen accidentally on the first sentence of this…

When in the hell were you first pregnant, in the ‘40s?

I’m one and done. My line to busy bodies is “I already got a Colin Hanks, I’m not gonna risk having a Chet Haze.”

Having just one kid seems like the perfect balance between experiencing parenthood and still having a life of your own. With one kid, adult hands and minds will always outnumber kid hands and minds, it’s not as expensive, and you only have to do the sleepless baby phase one time.