See, I never felt like it was an "imbalance," really. I actually felt lucky; I got to sit on the couch with the baby watching TV, while he had to deal with all the other stuff around the house. Our second literally screamed and cried every minute I—or someone else, sometimes—wasn't holding her, so somebody really had…

I loved breastfeeding; see my other long comment in this thread. :-) I absolutely encourage women to try it. But I also absolutely encourage women to say "Screw it" and grab the formula if after a couple of weeks they hate it or just don't wanna do it. :-)

Oh, no, breastfeeding is awesome! It made my experience with Baby Two soooo much better than Baby One (who I tried nursing for a couple of weeks, but I didn't like it and wasn't really that committed to it, so she was a formula baby).

Yeah, she really is.

Congratulations on the new baby!

I dunno, my husband and I really didn't have fights like those—or really about much baby-related stuff when we had new babies—but I thought the article was pretty funny. It didn't really read like it was supposed to be a "horror story" to me.

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Oh, I know, I do the same thing sometimes;. :-) No worries. Civil arguments/disagreements with intelligent people can be a lot of fun. I just tend to run out of steam after a bit, especially times like now where I have a million other things I really should be doing.

I totally agree.

I don't think that's what she means at all, or at least that's not the way I took it. I thought of women like Nell Gwynne, who everyone knew was a mistress but who didn't try to cash in or hide away; she carried her head high and was just generally cool and dashing about the whole thing; when she was going to testify…

Nope, I thought that too. And then I thought, "Yeah, that's SEXY. Tell me more about your poo-smeared ass, dude."

Yeah, the personal details don't bother me—he deserves it—but the stuff about his wife does. Hasn't that women been through enough? And she's pregnant. I know when I was pregnant it would have been great to have the world know that not only had my husband cheated on me, but he'd been telling the women he cheated with…

Yeah, that drives me crazy.

That's the way I took it, too.

Darnit. When I saw the headline I hoped it was some sort of 99 Red Balloons scenario.

I'll join you in the heartless cynical bastard corner, because I don't like balloons, either. Didn't really like them much as a kid and really don't see the appeal now as an adult. It's especially annoying because people always want to give them to my children (and of course they want them and give me the moony-eyes),…

Not just in response; there's all kinds of nastiness in her Photos, from well before the incident.

Ahh. I really liked the first three of those but lost interest at four(? I think, or was it five—the one in Colonial America, where Brianna was lucky not to be burned as a witch from her silly and arrogant behavior?) The ebooks I have with "cunt" in them are paranormals, although I've seen "cunny" used in erotic…

That's a really interesting point. Not sure how I feel about it—I need to consider that one more—and @laceandcombatboots made a great reply, too, but...that is a really interesting point.

Not to mention how much Vitamin A most vitamins have, and hasn't high doses of A been linked to all kinds of cancers/illnesses? (I could be remembering that wrong.)