There’s actually a really good article in the NYTimes today (maybe yesterday) about the impossible dilemma that parents face trying to get their children into summer programs, camps, in the care of reliable, safe babysitters when school lets out for the year. It might be far fetched but perhaps Bette read it?

I, too, am getting really fucking tired of being told how to feel about it from every goddamn angle of life. It’s like-guess what? I’m sad the gorilla died, I feel for the mother who was probably scared beyond belief and ALSO, I think she maybe screwed up some, plus I am able to see the rationale behind shooting the…

Well, as long as it saved her life, right?

In a voiceover, she said she stayed in the hospital for weeks so I’m guessing she was perhaps 6-8 weeks postpartum (perhaps that last week or two was just waiting for the meeting with Louis to be set up).

He is actually really great in it as an actor but it just.doesn’t.go.anywhere. Ever. Even when things happen, they don’t. It had the potential to be really compelling and interesting but it went a different way. I went through 2ish (?) seasons and couldn’t make myself care what happened next.

I feel so bad that so many pictures of him all cleaned up nice include that weird partially shaved head for Pete.

Upon reading the headline, I thought “why do we care about this?” But then I read the article and I never want the saga to end.

The problem is that you think it's just a simple choice. It isn't. And you don't know that because you've clearly opted not to even do rudimentary research on it. Please, learn before you judge.

Honestly, I don't think it really does much. Even they sort of laughed at the idea. The table could just be lifted a smidge at waist level. I didn't get pregnant after 3 IUIs so it didn't help me. Good luck to you!

I’ve handled a fair share of adoptions, both domestic and international and I can assure you, biological children born of progressive medical procedures do not have a lock on causing emotional hell. In fact, the more I handled adoptions, particularly international ones, the more I realized that option is not for me.…

To be fair, they do lift your hips for 15 minutes after IUI. Even the doctors believe a little gravity goes a long way. Of course, the sperm is already in your uterus by then so maybe it means more at that point.

I can understand the frustration of trying for several months and not having success...but yeah, I’m going on almost 2 years, 3 failed IUIs, one IVF cycle that resulted in an ectopic pregnancy and an emergency salpingectomy and my situation isn’t close to the worst I’ve ever read about. I do wish the author the best…

It’s actually more complicated than just deciding to terminate them voluntarily. Mostly because once they are terminated, it is almost impossible to reinstate them. In most cases where parental rights are terminated, it is for cause-abuse, proper abandonment, adoption. It becomes even more complicated if the child…

Infertility, genius.

You actually cannot contract to absolve one parent of the responsibility to provide child support. It’s against public policy and that is unlikely to ever be changed. It injures the child, not the other parent and the child isn’t the one who chose to be born.

Maybe you should actually read about the procedure before you decide you're an expert because right now, you're being a moron.

I thought labor was a special kind of torture that nothing could top. But then pushing came along and was sort of like being flayed alive so, yeah, I was totally wrong on that one.

Very true about the role of dad without the epidural. My husband was as integral a part of my labor and delivery as the nurse and midwife. I could not have physically done it without him there to brace my leg on (his hip) and have him wipe the buckets of sweat from my head. I don’t ever talk about my birth (it was…

That’s true even if you don’t have an epidural. I didn’t go for a week.

Looks like we got an expert over here, everyone. Close the comments.