Perhaps it will help her to hear this tip I got from a dad whose wife gave birth in their living room while on her way out the door to the hospital - “Make sure your wife keeps her underwear on so the baby doesn’t hit the floor when it comes out!” He also reported that coming back home alone after getting his wife and…

It kind of sounds ideal, depending on your view. The baby came so quick they couldn’t even complete a phone call to 911? Some women are in labor for days!

Could be worse, my friend’s baby was something like 11 days overdue. She was not in the mood anymore!

It took me 14 hours to give birth to my kid. I think that’s WAY more common than having a kid in the lobby. Most child births take an eternity and a half, plenty of time to get to the hospital. I don’t know why they always panic in the movies as soon as the expectant mother has her first contraction

Is it her first baby? One of my high school classmates was born in the hospital elevator, but he was his mom’s third child. I think most of the cases in which the mom doesn’t make it to the hospital are second or later babies. The indelicate metaphor for this is that it’s easier to get the second pickle out of the jar.

Maybe it will make her less anxious to know that you can go into labor literally anywhere and still deliver a totally healthy baby?

I don’t know, except for the public-ness of it, this sounds pretty ideal. I’d take this over 16 hours of labor any day.

“It’s very important to note that the hotel in question—the Loews Regency, or “The Regency,” as it is frequently referred to on Bravo—is the very same hotel at which Tom D’Agostino (not of the grocery D’Agostinos) cheated on Real Housewives of New York’s Luann de Lesseps the night before their engagement party.”

Jinni: many thanks for your active role in the community. I, for one, recognize your time, help and efforts on behalf of others. Thank you for making Jez and The Slot a better, nicer place. Cheers

WaPo now reporting Cohen being investigated for bank fraud and campaign finance violations.

Hey, compañeros.

It was my brother who abused me as a child for many years. I have no memory of it and didn’t learn of it until I was 34 and separated from my first wife. To this day I have only one isolated memory, but my life was/is forever changed. The very first time I had an opportunity for sex, a woman made dinner for me at her…

I wasn’t sexually assaulted as a child, but I definitely suffered other forms of trauma that I’ve been trying to uproot. After years of therapy, years of trying to figure out how to be an actress and all that entails (I’ve learned that I chose acting in order to excavate), I’ve just begun to actually scratch the…

I wish being weak wasn’t an insult. I wish men were allowed to express their need for any help they may require without having the word weak throwback at them like a pejorative. I am so sorry that happened to you, and that our culture made the fallout worse.

I finally went to therapy for the first time. Hardest thing I’ve ever done - and going back each week was the next hardest thing I’d ever done.. until it wasn’t.

Why qualify this statement? It reads as though your response to this is “I feel bad for the 8 year-old boy, but worse for the adult women he later dated.” Yes, he cheated - but it does not sound like he raped anyone, so why qualify what sounds like a deeply traumatizing and lasting issue he bottled up as being lesser…

I am so, so sorry for what happened to you.

I am so in awe that you reached out and got help, as hard as that clearly was.

And I am so grateful you chose to share this. Thank you. You WILL help someone by doing that. <3

So well written. This reminded me a lot of my childhood and life - the knowing that I wasn’t really a man because men can’t be raped. The shame and depression. For me it was years long sexual abuse from my step father and there are multiple times in my life where the fallout from those years nearly destroyed my life…

I am 100% rooting for this MIT prof.....aside from Brad Pitt maybe not being a great partner, but in theory, work with me. Amal picking up a trophy husband gives me life and I love the vicarious gender balancing of having visible, famous couples where the woman is primarily known as an intellectual powerhouse and the…

Is he the Best Chris? Let’s never stop debating this. He’s definitely at the top. I know he’s charming and he can do serious work and silly work, but honestly when I think of Chrises I tend forget he exists.