In all tv and photos, makeup artists pile on the makeup on Amy Poehler. I am thinking of a cell phone commerical that she is in where the makeup is just caked on. Just let her be an average looking lady... They put so much on that she doesn't look like herself.

I think you are being pretty naive and using an adult social framework for young children, and I don't think that is very fair because you are taking your adult understanding of gender and expecting children to have a full-formed, rational understanding of it as well. Children are known to show their genitalia to…

I think a girl seeing her classmate dress as a girl yet have a different genitalia would legitimately be confusing for those young girls. And I don't blame the other parents for not wanting to have that discussion with their daughters when they are 5 or 6.

Yeah.. and why the assumption that he had a surrogate? He might have just as easily impregnated a women. Plenty of gay men have children with women without artificial insementation or surrogates.

You might skip that stage since you are so tall. At 5'6 and mostly legs, I was in the fat stage from 10 weeks (due to constant bloating) to 17-18 weeks. At 23 weeks, I am all bump. I am like a size 4-6 normally but my breasts got so large so quickly that I was forced into maternity clothes at about your point.

I wore maternity clothes at 12 weeks. I am like a size 6 but I have longer legs compared to my waist and my stomach is just popping out. I look pretty pregnant for my first pregnancy. I don't think it is fair to assume she is overeating. Some women's figures just show pregnancy more than others.

I have been hospitalized a couple of times when I was dealing with PTSD... a couple of times when I was 20/21 and then again when I was 23/24. I ended up doing an outpatient program that was intensive (8-9 hours a day) and then followed up with 2 years of intense therapy.. I really turned a corner until I got…

Ugh... so my husband and I are moving onto a military base in base housing. They did not tell us until a week of moving in that we needed to provide our own washer and dryers. Nothing in any of the information given said anything about this. This is like base specific because other bases (now that we have found out!)…

Have you tried those instant swaddlers called swaddleme? Or would a muslin swaddling blanket work better?

I would say get a basic understanding about who is going to deliver your baby (will it be your primary ob/gyn?) and if the baby is going to stay with you or in a nursery. And pack for your hospital bag before you get too tired!

There are lawyers who specialize in filing for social security. I think setting up an appointment and getting some questions answered by one would be worth your time.

I am not doing a birth plan and not doing any pre-birth classes. I don't think you need a class if you and your husband aren't into it. I hope you have a healthy birth!

How do you deal with a mother in law's passive agressive jabs? I am visting with my in laws and my husband and I live quite a bit away from them normally. I am almost 6 months pregnant and my mother in law is bringing up my weight, interrupting me whenever I talk and being a complete bitch about my portion sizes. Hey,…

I am not a teenager but my husband and I got engaged right before I found out I was pregnant. It happens.

Leave Taylor Swift alone. I was foolish about guys in my early twenties but evened out later like most women. The constant criticism about her and her choices about dating is ridiculous. She is a young woman perhaps making stupid decisions but it is her decisions to make alone like any young woman.

His health has probably declined since he became Pope like a lot of people in their 80's after 5 years. The constant traveling probably excaerbated it.

I agree. Plus, he had to travel constantly and have constant meetings. I am not gonna begrudge an 85 year old man with health issues if he says he cannot handle the job. JP II was in his sixties when he became Pope. Benedict was almost 80. Huge age gap there.

Rumor is that he has been pretty sick for awhile. He is 85 and being a Pope you have to constantly travel and work 12-14 hour days.

I can agree to that but I also think that any sort of healthy consumer spending in the US is tied to lower prices. When prices increase, the consumer in America really feels it because of constant cost of living adjustments and that wages drag behind these increased costs of basic living. It is a vicious cycle,…

I am not giving a pass to companies.. But look, either prices will go up and the consumer will have to bear that and or hiring will be affected. We don't live in a fantasy world where you dump a huge expense on a company and they are just able to absorb it.