The really weird thing here is that the UWS is chock full of restaurants with outdoor seating. So basically these are some random bizarro people who said a bunch of wackadoo stuff and somehow there ended up being a post about it.

Agreed, but there should be two-person verification. And yes, a mistake can happen with any format but someone jotting down what sperm vial to use while on the phone, with no other witness, just seems like bizarrely sloppy protocol.

I read about this somewhere else - while she was still pregnant she called and asked them for more of sperm #380, so her partner could give birth to some siblings for Peyton. Sperm bank was like "380? Oops, see the person who jotted down 380 when they were on the phone w you, their handwriting wasn't so great so we…

Wow, that is a majorly BAD freaking idea.

I really wanted to find a gif of Lucille Bluth saying "Oh we're into all kinds of kinky stuff," but for some insane reason nobody has made one yet.

What's with the "pending approval" business?

I'm prochoice, so please take this as coming from a friendly "constructive criticism" place… but "clump of cells" is so blatantly inaccurate, and I think saying things like that loses a lot of credibility for the movement.

A miscarriage - even one that involves zero medical intervention - is considered a "spontaneous abortion" in medical terminology. An abortion - whether to save a life or because the woman doesn't want a baby or for whatever reason - is called a "therapeutic abortion." The word abortion in a medical record doesn't…

I think this is inappropriate bullshit. But I also feel like if they're gonna do it they should go hard or go home - don't even STOCK it whatsoever. None of this under ten exception BS.

Having a tough time believing it. Seems like a coincidence they'd spell semen perfectly. Also their handwriting is really really good for a first grader, I think.

On top of the fact that this is completely wrong and offensive no matter what (which I'm sure everyone appreciates anyway), another odd thing about this is that standards in the US are changing and the trend is away from using pap smears as aggressively as we once did (starting at a later age, doing them less…

I'd have to reserve full judgement since I haven't seen the actual text, but I've already explained to my 9 year old that some grown ups, as part of their sex, like to sort of "play games" that have things like tying up etc.

I watch that clip of Shira Adler and she looks like Carrie Brownstein and that makes me feel like I'm watching a sketch on Portlandia.

I pretty much always have on not only underwear but either pj bottoms or legging-shorts or something, because I hate the sensation of naked thighs. What's sort of weird is that I sleep w a pillow between my legs ANYWAY, so keeping up with my thigh-encasing obsession doesn't even matter at night because the pillow…

After you've wiped it perfectly, a thousand times, with a baby wipe, and then dry toilet paper, and ascertained (ASS-ertained!) that it's perfectly clean, come back a few hours later and wipe with a wet wipe again. It may be slightly poopy. More comes later - not as incontinence, but, IMO, part of the…

I don't know the show/character, but I was surprised to see "haha you're trans" humor in a bit being highlighted for fabulousness by Jez.

I know this post is super old, but I'm here so I can't resist saying that it's a little funny to refer to a production from the 2000's as "the older version" of a show when that show is actually from the 70s.

yes, exactly correct.

hmm. When I've brought babies to NICU with respiratory distress after scheduled c-sections, I've had neonatologists lament "why don't they let them labor [to help prep the baby's lungs]???"

Yah, it's really not comparable to vaccines. Having a trial of labor and then going to c-section only if necessary should be an option. The pendulum has swung to docs being afraid of VBACs while they ignore valid concerns of negative outcomes from all these unnecessary surgeries. Secondly even if it WAS a bad…