I'm a cheap person too, but I'm a bit more sympathetic to the belt purchase. I compare it to a woman buying a nice purse for $300, a luxury but not one to turn my head. A lot of men wear belts every day, so you get a lot of use out of one — and they last for years, maybe even forever. Better in my opinion than…

I have no idea what the actual numbers are. In my experience (purely anecdotal), most people who have low supply are often ok supplementing with formula — baby is still getting breastmilk after all, and in some cases a supply deficiency can be increased (sometimes it takes drugs, but in my experience people would…

Huh? The point of the study was to test samples of breastmilk that were obtained the same way normal people participating in these online swaps obtain them. Finding women who would "pump nearby and bring the sample over" completely defeats the purpose of the study.

This is so true. I had a relatively-well-educated aquaintance tell me that she did not see the need to vaccinate her baby until she stopped nursing because "of the immunities in breastmilk."

In my opinion, based on this article, (3) and (4) should be switched. (Assuming, as per the article, that the "someone else's milk" is not milk from an actual wet nurse, legit milk bank, or a personally-known donor at a minimum.) Yes, breastmilk has nutritional advantages over formula but they are not so profound that…

I love my Veronica shorts. I have the Coach ones from last season that are a grungy looking metallic greyish black. They are not the most comfortable shoes I've ever owned — they feel really heavy on my feet (probably because I wear ballet flats 99% of the time) but every time I put them on I feel instantly cool.

Where do you find them on sale? I have been stalking the interwebz for what feels like a decade to find an MZ Wallace bag (preferably a Jane) at a price I can justify. HELP MEEEEEEEE!

It's definitely laziness, but I also think it's a rather insidious form of bragging: "me, cook? Ha! I am too busy doing Cool and Important things with my Cool and Important friends to cook. Or fix my own toilet. In fact, I am so Cool and Important that I have people who do that for me."

Absolutely. And when the kid is 14, he'll think the smocked romper is way more embarassing than the time he was dressed as Walter White for Halloween.

Eh, dressing kid like character from popular TV show =/= dressing kid as drug dealer, addict, prostitute, etc. Babies have no idea what Halloween is, nor do they give a flying fuck what they are wearing. Any photo of them dressed up in any costume is "for the amusement" of the adults in their lives.

Oh, yes. Good point re: indoor livestock keeping - I was thinking more along the lines of a family keeping a few goats, chickens, or sheep, or of the smaller family farms I knew growing up, but of course that is not the model of most livestock farming in the US any more (at least as far as I know).

Well, dogs are different from livestock in that they have evolved to be companion animals, with their nature pack instinct reformed so that they consider their owners to be their "pack;" they want to be with their pack, so I think that leads a lot of people to conclude that it is cruel to force them to live solitary…

During my first pregnancy, the birth class instructor showed us a picture of where all your organs go to make room for the fetus and it freaked me out so badly I had nightmares.

The Times had an article on this the other day. Apparently it is just a big catalog — they are calling it a "branding tool." Basically, it's a store. That you pay $12 for. I was excited. Now I am not.

It's great that your mom did that, and that it worked for her and your family. It's great that she had the option if that's what she wanted. But I feel compelled to point out that those of us who work full time—by necessity or by choice— don't feel like we're "missing our kids growing up" or "not seeing them for weeks…

Huh? No one is saying they were! Just that the singing would have been SO much more powerful if the raw emotion they were clearly feeling came through in the vocals. As it was there was a disconnect between the pristine sound of the vocals and the emotion the actors were clearly (really) feeling. It was distracting.

Yeah. We left NYC when our first kid turned 2. Primarily because we didn't want to deal with the special hell of schooling (public OR private) in NYC. And I didn't want to keep working 80-hour weeks so we could afford it. We still miss NYC but reading articles like this one and similar batshit insanity in the Times…

I get what you are getting at, but I also think of Pinterest as a place to save things that I would otherwise lose. So, if I were tooling around the internet and saw a dress I might want to wear for a formal event, I would pin it even though I don't have any formal events on my calendar, possibly for years. Similarly,…

Etsy is a good source for baby gifts/toys/cute clothing/ stuff made by real people.

Yellow shoes would have made this. Teal a close second.