I know. I saw the pic in the comment above and was immediately like, “Cameron Diaz was a CHILD!”*  and promptly felt like I was a million years old.

Thank you!  I love all of my close friends, and could well look fondly at them on their 40th birthday.  IT DOESN’T MEAN WE’RE FUCKING.

What? And make them fat?

That last line . . . ::gigglesnort::

I did it for 4 mos because my first couldn’t get the hang of nursing. I remember seeing his eyes absolutely light up when we finally offered him a bottle. It’s not easy. I remember at some point estimating that between pumping, feeding, storage, and clean up, I was spending about 12 hours per day on feeding…

Yup. I think the useful reference would be bottled expressed milk vs formula. Because for many women, those are the alternatives. As you said, many women can’t keep their supply up if they don’t pump at work and, sometimes, in the very early days of breastfeeding. So what do you do with the expressed milk? Just dump…

So, while I definitely live in the same house as my husband and share the same bed, having a guest bedroom was amazing when we were both sick over the winter. Rather than waking each other up with coughing fits, I camped out in the guest bed for a couple weeks. We were both able to rest, and I got all the covers.

“Pregnant People Are the Ultimate Endurance Athletes”

No joke. I was talking to a friend of mine who’s a middle school teacher and she said, in response to an informal survey, 5 kids identified their future career plans as “YouTube Star.” I asked 5 out of how many. She said 13.

It needs to be said: that ring is boring as shit. I’d take that $140K beauty next to it any day, but I am woman of simple tastes. ;)

Ditto. Here’s how I explained it to my husband (who thinks Biden is “electable”). Voting for Biden in the primary may be the pragmatic thing to do, for all the reasons outlined above. But if you’re voting for Biden just to appease white men when he doesn’t support the policies you think are best for the country, it’s…

This. I think Elizabeth Warren summed it up nicely:

Says the party that voted to symbolically end Obamacare about eleventy billion times. And then couldn’t get it done when it actually mattered.

Agreed. I saw this and thought, “Lol. This covers about 80% of the working adults I know, and close to 100% of working parents.” It also covers a healthy chunk of adults I know who are SAH parents or caregivers for elderly relatives. When I look at the people I know, the only ones this doesn't apply to are: 1) People…

Yes, but what are the oranges of the projection? The oranges . . . Y’know, the beginning.

Replied to the wrong comment.  I’m an idiot.

My theory is they figured out early on that there are only two ways this can end: Trump either crashes and burns spectacularly and anyone associated with him is blackballed from Republican politics or Trump takes over the party so completely that anyone not associated with him is blackballed from Republican politics.

Insurance moves people further from god. (Something a Tennessee Congressman and doctor! actually said. Google Dr Mark Green and Medicaid expansion.)

So, I can only speak for myself, but as a mother to two kids with another on the way, I can say that I thought HARD about how I could possibly justify adding another human life to this planet (at an American standard of living, no less!)and, quite frankly, I’m not sure I really can. There is a piece of my decision to…

I mean, people with more authoritarian personality traits tend to be more politically conservative.