I don’t know about y’all, but my FB feed was mostly full of guys listing 10 bands composed entirely of men. When a couple of my female friends pointed out how revealing it is that so many guys could claim to have no female musical influences, surprise, surprise, all their male friends have gotten defensive, one called…

Yeah for doulas! I would guess based on the very scientific sample size of me and my partner (both vegan) that 95% of people considering eating the placenta are vegans or vegetarians. The hippie streak is strong in us.

Truth. Non-human mammals may engage in placentaphagy in the wild because it provides them with iron and contains some opiates for pain relief. But I’m a human, I have vitamins and kale and access to pharmaceuticals. Some studies (with small sample sizes) show a lower incident of PPD in moms who ate the placenta, but I…

I’m creating that fucking placenta while eating a vegan diet, if I consent to it being eaten, then it’s vegan. Though from what I’ve read I see no studies whatsoever that indicate any benefits beyond placebo effect in human placentaphagy. My partner wants to eat it, but he spent a year living in Portland, and is also…

Lansing! Do it! I’ll be there!

No, I’ll be headed to Lansing, as long as I don’t go into labor between now and then.

Lansing! I’m trying to think of a good sign for my 7.5 mo pregnant self to carry. And I hope my winter jacket still zips then.

That just looks like a French Swiffer ad.

Ha, the idea of that in a crop-top is so ludicrous I would almost support it. “My neck is chilly, but my arms and torso are sweltering!”

What did that man do to piss of his autocorrect so so much?

True story: I wore multiple dragon-fly shaped pins in my hair at once. I may have been wearing foam platform sandles at the time. Forgive me!

Y’all. That sleeveless mock turtleneck (what climate is that meant for!?!?) is confirming a fear I’ve had since reading this article about the first season of the Bachelor: were we ALL wearing awful turtlenecks throughout most of the early 2000s but we’ve wiped our memories clean of that fashion trauma? Are they going…

I asked, he said I have not been snoring. He’s just worried that I’m cutting off blood to the baby.

I would be a proud member of the Church of Nasty Women. Our deity could be Kali, goddess of destruction, and our sacrament would involve drinking male tears.

Thank you! I need to print this up and tape it to a wall. Yes, it is freeing to realize that being a control freak is futile and unhealthy.

We do have a humidifier! I never got the nosebleeds pre-prego. I’ll try the vaseline thanks!

Yep, my spawn’s brain and skull are pretty well formed at this point.

I hear you. I had a cold for 2 whole weeks, but the sniffles have been non-stop. I was at Thanksgiving for part of it, my SO’s family kept offering me drugs that I can’t take. It was very sweet and totally maddening. And in Michigan I’ve also been getting nose bleeds since October. Just 9 more weeks...

Oh, turning over in bed. At this point it’s like trying to get the Titanic to change course. I imagine the beeping noise trucks make as they back up each time I try to roll over in bed.

I was just reading about how there were some 150,000 elective abortions in Europe after Chernobyl, from Greece to Scandinavia, and that in many cases the radiation levels recorded in those countries were minute, far less than what had been feared. It’s such a personal decision, so I don’t blame anyone for erring on…