Larry understood something important about how Obama puts together these dinners: The jokes aren’t for the people in the room. They’re for the folks at home, who for one night get to see these self-important Washington pricks get taken down a peg.

People are fucking weird. This was HILARIOUS. And all the more so by how many complete cringe worthy moments there were, of all these media people being entirely unable to laugh at them selves. Did you guys see Blitzer’s face?? If eyes could kill, Larry would be dead. Dead, I tell ya.

Alternately! With the Mirena (or Liletta) you may just never have a period or spotting at all. I haven’t had a period in 8 years and it is fantastic.

(I’m feeling like I had a lot of feelings about this and I’m trying to get them organized in the right way, so this might not make a whole lot of sense. And as a white lady, I might misstep, please don’t yell at me, I’m trying.)(I’m super grey anyway, so most of y’all probably won’t even see this!)

Interesting, my mother’s experience with me has shaped a lot of my views. I was born in 1981, I was 2 weeks late and when my mother went into labor, she was told I was breach and needed a cesarean. My father couldn’t be there and they didn’t use a curtain. She said it was the single most horrifying experience of her…

Yeah, same here. I'm not some Tiger Mom convinced that unmedicated childbirth will give me a valedictorian with an MIT acceptance letter - I just really really really didn't want surgery or to deal with recovering from surgery, so I was willing to deal with pain if it gave me better chances of avoiding a c-section.…

When I had my kids, I really did not want a C-section. There are so many reasons not to want a C-section but the bottom line is that I am very afraid of surgury. So many people treated me like a hippy lunatic for opting for a plan that was statistically least likely to result in a section. Obviously I would have had a…

She is on the AMA right now claiming that the push for breastfeeding and attachment parenting is part of a conspiracy to keep women from the work force. She is also claiming that the push for breast feeding/ natural birth is to make money. Unlike the massive advertising campaigns by formula companies, who I totally…

You shouldn’t take my personal decision for myself as a condemnation of what you did or want to do. I know plenty of people who were fine with theirs and others who weren’t. I don’t want that for myself. I don’t care that they had them but I also don’t want to feel like I am pushed into surgery because I am viewed…

Yup, I had a non-medicated vaginal birth with midwives (they’re university educated and provincially regulated in Canada). I tried to complete it at home but my midwives called the baby as being stuck and got me to the hospital 5 minutes away, where I proceeded to have the baby 45 minutes later, still with my…

My old boss told me a bizarre story about when his second kid was born. His wife went into labor maybe a week before the due date and in the middle of the night (as seems wont to happen). When they showed up at the hospital, they wanted to know when the appointment they’d originally made was. This was such a confusing…

Hey, hi there, I had an unmedicated childbirth and it was fine. Though honestly I have no moral stance on medicated vs unmedicated vs c-section. I just wanted to see if I could do it. I knew I was never going to challenge myself physically in such an extreme way, unless I ran a marathon or something which I have no…

I fired off a response on the internet in between meetings and didn’t get the right number. I corrected myself in other comments but I can’t edit the original response. Its still much higher than recommended in the US.

For me, it has nothing to do with being a good or bad parent, it has to do with MY health. I know that is unconscionable for a woman to consider herself in the process but I am.

Administering the proper medications has also shown to slow down delivery, especially when induction is present.

What would you prefer? I usually say I don’t want a cesarean or anything that increases my likelihood of having one.

Exactly, the science says that natural birth and breastfeeding are better in the vast majority of cases. Just because the nut jobs think they are better in all cases doesn’t diminish the fact that they should still be the norm.

She is awful. She got booted from Science Based Medicine, the commentators were going hard on her every week for misrepresenting studies. She also had a huge problem with midwives. She couldn’t seem to accept that in Europe midwives are fully qualified, highly trained, and totally integrated into the maternity health…

Kids aren’t blank slates, each child’s situation is different and they have different needs, as far as I can see parenting is about making sure each child’s needs are met.

I hate the idea that those of us who want natural childbirth are crazy naturopaths. I love medicine and science and I know that if I undergo major surgery that isn’t really necessary, I open myself up to a greater risk of infection. Childbirth isn’t something we need medical interventions for in MOST cases. Obviously…