“Folie à deux means madness of two. Means: lovers’ madness. Means: mental illness can be contagious, a psychosis shared; thoughts festering, spreading. In such closeness, we began to talk the same. In such closeness, we began to fear.”

Yep....If you are paid “member”, it entitles you to submit “proof” (none required at all...I worked in the pool business and have personal BBB experience) that all customer complaints were resolved.

My main reason for not having a home birth? I don’t want to clean that shit up afterwards. I’m sure my husband would be oblivious to the amniotic fluid on the floor or the placenta stained towels, and I’d end up cleaning it up. A hospital was like a hotel where I didn't have to think about cleaning up and, oh yeah,…

Doctors are not infallible. I agree with that. That does not mean we need to listen to whatever idiot gets money to “make a movie” about the health system. I work in public health. I know very well that doctors are not brilliant and that the system is fucked. That does not mean that any idiot has something valuable to…

No.

ok wait though. I am a person who is planning on becoming an OB-GYN and I’ve been working in hospitals for the past four years, doing health disparities work. I am pro-medicine, and pro-doctors. I am WITH you in that Ricki Lake is not an expert who in many ways is doing more harm than good.

However, I agree with Lake…

Sorry, I should have said “had”. The last ten years the mortality rate has dropped considerably, probably because of the recent changes (there never used to be gynecologists available in hospitals during the night and the weekend, and as I said there is no longer a stigma on choosing to have your baby in the…

I agree. As one going to school to be an obgyn I think this is all negligent to say the least. If you want a midwife to deliver it cool I don’t have a problem with that but do it at a hospital so if shit goes south we can handle it. I’m really getting tired of all obgyns are evil and etc. A lot of us are totally fine…

Labor RN of 9 years here. I have mixed feelings about Business of Being Born but can completely confirm that the hospitals need to up their game. I work in a medium/high volume urban environment so I’ve seen it all and personally had one Pinterest Perfect Home Waterbirth and one Disaster/Code Blue/Seizure/ICU birth.…

I just read the intro, but this homebirthing stuff makes me see red. I live in a country where creepy midwives have dictated the home birth as the preferred option for women for decades, and only now is it starting to become a little bit accepted if you prefer to have your baby in the hospital. A couple of years ago…

I love how she says she’s not trying to scare women off the pill. Well it sure sounds like that’s exactly what she’s trying to do by mentioning vague scary long-term effects of “messing with your natural cycle.” (as quoted in the previous Jezebel article about this) I wonder if I could raise a bunch of money to make a…

I met her last month at a book signing. She is gracious, funny, charming and vivacious. She LOVES her fans. It's said that you should never meet your idols, but I'm so glad I met her. It doesn't surprise me that she'd do this.

I grew up in the town immediately west of Elizabeth. Oddly, Elizabeth’s public high schools were segregated by sex until at least 1970. Males went to Jefferson High; females went to Battin High, from where Judy Blume graduated.

My pediatrician was located in Elizabeth, NJ and he knew Judy Blume. Nothing in my childhood ever impressed me as much as that.

Judy Blume: replacing people’s moms since 1970.

“Damnit! Stoopid hoominz! They found those things in 1969 and JUST NOW noticed the message we left? Too stupid to live, but we’ll keep them for the nice housing, toys, and endless food”.

I remember taking my art class back in college. Here I am using paints at home to complete a project. Coming back from using the bathroom, I see the cat at my paints putting her feet in them. First thought was, “Oh, shit. She has that caught look in her eye, which means she is going to run.” Sure enough, paw prints…

I remember back in ancient times when Party of Five was on the air, and they did an episode where Neve Campbell’s character, who was graduating from high school, had a friend who killed herself. Everyone was horribly shocked and bewildered, not the least because the friend had just gotten early acceptance to Harvard.…

“She responded to someone paternal.”