OMG!! I’m 12 weeks pregnant and am really enjoying OHSU—I won’t be in your shoes for six more months, but as someone who just went through it at OHSU, do you have any tips?? Also i love your little bean!! He is so cute!!!

I’m 10 weeks along and found out I was pregnant literally one week after returning from a weekendtrip to Costa Rica—luckily I was already paranoid as hell and was slathering myself in mosquito lotion and spray all weekend, so I actually managed to escape with ZERO mosquito bites. I can’t imagine how stressed I’d be…

Female children take your name, male children take your husband’s name. Bam.

I’ve been following the Zika story for the past three weeks—I won a once-in-a-lifetime trip to Costa Rica this spring, and there’s a chance I’m pregnant. We’ve been trying, anyway, and I didn’t learn about Zika until it was potentially too late. I’m hoping I’m not pregnant. I don’t want to be forced to make that…

This was literally my first thought when I read that part: OMG PLEASE send them over here!! Those things don’t grow on trees! Let a girl live!!

As someone who also wants to have a baby soon and has won a trip to Costa Rica in April, I’m crossing all my fingers and toes that this doesn’t show up there (and either way I’m wearing turtlenecks and long pants the entire time).

LOL, “take the day off”—have you ever worked in food service?? Genuinely asking.

Tons of people even remove their own! I took mine out at home with no issues. It takes literally 30 seconds.

So you think this girl should have gone to her abusive father??

YES, this, this is exactly it for me. I changed my name when I got married because I am nothing like my family, and I feel like my husband’s family is way more of a family to me than the one I was born to. Why should my personal choice bother someone? :/

This is a super interesting article, but one perspective it doesn’t touch on that I think would be very interesting is my own: I’m a bisexual woman married to a straight man. How terrible would my life be if he were jealous of EVERY one of my friends, men and women alike!?