My favorite chili is based on a recipe from my college roommate’s copy of Low Carb for Dummies, and although that would not seem like a likely source of amazing recipes, it is both super delicious, dead simple, and easy to keep the ingredients on hand for at all times.

IDK, my baby is really having a difficult time of it with this whole growing hair thing, and there’s a part of me that wants to buy her one of these just for my own amusement.

I am relating so hard right now to your anxiety about merging finances. We didn’t really merge ours - we have a shared savings account but keep separate checking accounts, and I pay most of our bills because I am the breadwinner by a decent margin.

I am in one Facebook group with maybe twelve other women who were all due the same month, and another with moms in my neighborhood. The neighborhood one originally seemed primarily focused on setting up weekly happy hours, which unfortunately ceased as soon as I actually had the baby and could drink again.

Boo, definitely sounds like a bad reaction then. Grapeseed oil has a moderately low comedogenic rating but everyone reacts differently to different oils. I’d discontinue both, go easy on your skin till it heals (I find that using honey as a DIY mask when I break out helps a lot in terms of both soothing and healing),…

Some Vitamin C serums can cause purging initially. Are the zits in areas where you normally get them or are they in random places?

My husband and I got married back in my hometown, and while we were there we left our car in a super shitty off-airport lot in Oakland in an effort to save money. As cat enthusiasts, we were initially delighted to see a few stray cats running around the lot when the shuttle dropped us off, but our enthusiasm was…

Whaaaat? Having been intercepted on my way into the lavatory with a baby and given a plastic garbage bag to put the dirty diaper in on a few occasions, I’d have assumed barf bag protocol would be something similar. Like, have the puker contain the mea and THEN take it.

I was contemplating canceling mine and then I was given a six-month subscription for my birthday, so I will be getting it for five more months at least. The thing about them is their rewards program is so good it’s almost worth it even with the reduced quality over time. I love being able to get like $80 worth of…

You’d be surprised...a lot of people into Asian beauty products (so probably most of their target demographic) will use a sheet mask every other day or more.

I was really looking forward to getting that coffee scrub in my Glossybox, but they gave me a shampoo instead! I was so mad. My Julep gloss is an odd deep purple color and I really dislike the color of both the nail polish (my fourth pink nail polish from them in five months) and the blush. The squalane drops are the…

On Sunday I did the world’s easiest carnitas - throw a couple pounds of cubed pork shoulder in a large cast iron skillet, fill it up to the top with water, add some salt and a few chiles de arból and let it cook over medium-low until all the water evaporates and it crisps in its own fat - usually about two hours in my…

My grandmother got hit by this same scam! I think the person claimed to have been arrested for DUI. Unfortunately for the scammer her grandsons are both irritatingly upstanding police officers so she was like, “bitch please.”

Can you hand express some of it in the shower? That worked best for me in the beginning when I didn’t want to stimulate more supply by pumping. No mess, and massaging my boobs under warm water helped with clogged ducts too.

Mine was two weeks late too and when she came out, not only were her nails super long, it was like she had a perfectly oval-shaped ombré manicure. Multiple people commented on it in the hospital.

If you’re sober enough to drive a car you’re sober enough to feed a baby! And you can always pump and dilute with clean milk if you overdo it. Formula-feeding is great too - the most important thing is a well-fed baby. But the whole don’t-drink-while-nursing thing is WAY overblown.

Also, salmonella, E. coli, and campylobacter do not cross the placenta! So if God forbid you were to get one of those while pregnant, while you would almost certainly be more miserable than a non-pregnant person, your baby is not at risk. And most cat owners already have been exposed to toxoplasmosis and are thus…

Yes! That book saved my life while pregnant.

I ate sushi! That recommended it such bullshit. Because fish for sushi is frozen to kills bacteria, you are less likely to get sick from almost any other type of protein. As long as it was freshly prepared and low mercury I ate it.

I’ve also read that because women who experience morning sickness are both less likely to drink coffee and less likely to miscarry, it’s all just correlation. Have you read Expecting Better? I highly recommend it if you’re looking for reassurance on your decision to eat/drink all the things. It was my pregnancy bible.