Wait, Anderson Cooper is Gloria Vanderbilt’s son??? I am just learning this! 

As a former breastfeeding mom who rarely pumped or used bottles, I think that it’s important to include with this story that pumping moms often do a combination of feeding from the breast and feeding expressed milk from bottles so that they can keep their milk supply going. Pumping keeps the milk flowing, which is…

I’m six feet tall and have dated several guys shorter than me in the past (my husband is a couple inches taller). I learned several things:

1) Don’t give any energy to people who think it’s weird. What kind of bizarro patriarchal bullshit is it that a man has to be taller than a woman? People need to get over it.

2) The…

I believe the doctor that the state is requiring this exam, but I don’t think it’s written into law, it seems like it’s a new interpretation of existing law by state officials. But I can’t yet find anything about the specific regulations, just what this doctor is saying. If anybody can find the specific language and…

Washington is pretty purple if you scratch the surface. So is Oregon and several other states. My state, however, is not. There’s no chance of Trump winning the electoral votes here, whatsoever.

Let’s all remember who had the lead in the polls at this time in the GOP primaries. http://www.msnbc.com/msnbc/jeb-bush-surges-lead-gop-pack-new-2016-poll

I’m just not voting for him. I mean in the primary or the general election. I have the luxury of doing that because I live in a solidly blue state, and I’d vote for any Democrat in the general election if I lived in a swing state. But since I live in a blue state, I’m not voting for him. And I know I’m not alone.

Biden…

I loved this movie so much, in part because it was a love letter to the Bay Area (and the city in particular), and this review pretty much nails it.

This is pretty disturbing, actually. It’s a well-worn tactic of authoritarian regimes to put out propaganda that clearly shows one thing, while actively lying and redefining it as another. That so many people believe the propaganda over the actual tape is incredibly disturbing.

I used to love spelling bees as a kid. This is getting ridiculous, though.

Still, if we’re going to get rid of the national spelling bee, we might as well get rid of elite sports, too. It’s not any different. 

Elizatom Muise (pronounced Mooz). 

Clearly, everybody wants the fart poem. WAY TO BURY THE LEDE.

(I did see you shared it in the comments, thank you! And also I’m going to use this as soon as my kiddo is old enough to read.)

Here’s just a quick copy/paste of sample size portions as I don’t have time to analyze the whole study:

Experiment 1

There are only 5 IUDs approved for use in the united states, and they are all either copper or hormonal (they all use plastic).

The study you’re talking about checked hormonal levels, and 5ish% is pretty low, far lower than the normal rate of zygote loss. So how many of those were lost to the IUD and how many are the…

Welp, I’m going to assume you have more knowledge here then. My own knowledge comes from years working as an advocate (volunteer and professionally) for women’s health and reproductive rights. I’m not a medical doctor (I’m a PhD, not an MD). If you’re a gynecologist who works with IUDs all the time, which you seem to…

Preaching to the choir. None of this is really about “life,” it’s about enforcing a particular strain of ultra conservative religious ideology that seeks to control women’s sexuality and reproduction.

My point is that 99.9% of birth control methods work to prevent fertilization, though there’s clearly LOTS of…

The morning after pill works by delaying ovulation to prevent fertilization. There’s little to no evidence it works after fertilization.

It seems that most people don’t understand how IUDs work. IUDs work by preventing fertilization. In the very, extremely unlikely event that fertilization happens, copper IUDs can prevent implantation as well (which is why they can be effective as emergency contraception) but IUDs work primarily (and almost entirely) by…

You’re talking about copper IUDs, and they work by preventing fertilization. They *can* prevent implantation in the very unlikely event fertilization happens (which is why copper IUDs are used sometimes as emergency contraception), but ALL IUDs primarily work by preventing fertilization.

IUDs primarily work by stimulating the creation of a mucus that is inhospitable to sperm and prevents fertilization in the first place. In the (very, extremely unlikely) event it occurs, a copper IUD can prevent implantation (a hormonal IUD won’t). But IUDs work by disrupting fertilization in the first place. Clearly…