The reason for the selfishness is the other side of the story. It’s the story of loss and mourning. She is in pain after losing her best friend and therefore herself. I wish you could give it a second try by looking at that aspect of the story as well.

Well I won’t say you should like the show because it’s got a very specific audience but Fleabag’s not trying to portray a hero, and the whole point is that she’s a “terrible, selfish character being terrible and selfish.” I get why that’s not compelling for everyone, but I am surprised you like Colman’s character,…

I am so excited for this! PS it’s Olivia Colman, not Coleman.

Andrew Scott!?!?!  Be still my heart!

Burning it all down only sounds good if you have the privilege of not being on fire.

This is why I’m always extremely leery of the sort of person who opines that maybe Trump in office is “good”, because it will hasten the fall of the current system/speed the revolution/spur greater change in one form or another. The kind of person who believes that is usually not the same as the people who are going…

So, I had my kids at the hospital, no other option would work for me, since I tend to be risk adverse and freak out. (though I have a dear friend who had both her kids at home with no issues) Both of my pregnancy’s were standard, and the births were straight forward, however my 21 month old had a pneumothorax (hole in…

I’ve heard it’s because of a strange federal regulation on the storage of gaseous mixtures. Apparently you’re not allowed store nitrous oxide and oxygen in the same tank in the States, which is how it’s administered here, so you’d have to have two tanks and mix it directly before inhaling it, which is opening yourself…

wait - are we not doing bottom liner anymore? is that what’s wrong with Kate’s liner? Help! i’ve been doing black bottom liner (on the waterline) since 1985! should i go home and hide my face in shame?

From the WP story:

Mother and baby are one breach away from having all this splashed around the internet.

I think the privacy interests of the child — who is not compensated and who never consented to any of this — are worth considering. Particularly where certain details about birth and pregnancy, such as being significantly premature, are correlated with health problems down the line. And if the baby is a girl and…

I’ve given birth without an epidural (the hospital was short on anesthesiologists that day and they were tied up in surgeries, apparently), and let me tell you, if I’d ever had another baby, I would have kidnapped a random anesthesiologist at gunpoint and brought him to the hospital with me to administer an epidural…

because a woman having a baby over the age of 35 is at an increased risk of premature birth or the need for an epidural or caesarean.

I used Ovia while I was pregnant. There were certain tracking options that I couldn’t access unless I put in my doctor’s name and I think my place of employment. I just ignored those tracking options and stuck with the things that didn’t require me to put in personal information. After my baby was born, I deleted the…

I thought you were going to ask about the guy who found out his teenage daughter was pregnant because Target kept sending her coupons for diapers and formula. He got all indignant and contacted Target Corporate and demanded to know what WTH they thought they were doing. Turns out? The daughter was pregnant. Target’s…

“Wellness” is a scheme invented by our corporate overlords to squeeze every last ounce of productivity out of us by dehumanizing our most profound moments of sorrow and joy into microtargetable data. Don’t be complicit. Smash your smartphone, burn your fitbit, eat your calorie tracker. 

#staywoke

Frankly, if there’s anybody for whom a home birth makes sense, it’s the rich and super famous—you can afford the best quality care on site

Wasn’t there a story a few years back about a man who found out his daughter (I believe she was a teen) was pregnant because she was using his cartwheel or some other such shopping app, as she had bought a pregnancy test using the app and then it started suggesting maternity and baby related things to him?  I say all…

But a friend in America said the duchess – who still practices yoga daily and has ‘sailed’ through her pregnancy