The good news for Carly is that since she won’t be the next president, she’ll have plenty of time to spend with him. Also, she reminds me of a tag-along to the mean girl group in high school. She’s not as pretty or as popular as the other girls, but she IS as mean, so they let her stick around.

I’m sure when you find it, you will be mightily rewarded!

Thank YOU for making it seem worthwhile! I lived in France a few times, where it was so common to have a little wine while pregnant, and it feels so pointless to completely deprive myself (I’d obviously not be binge drinking either way). Thanks for giving me a little more willpower. It’s tough. I didn’t realize how…

You can pretty much eat all cheese in the U.S. You have to go really far out of your way to find unpasteurized cheese here.

Current prego here. I am high risk, and so completely not allowing myself alcohol. I literally yearn for every glass of red wine a TV or movie character drinks. The other day I kept kissing my husband as he drank his beer, jsut to taste it.

It almost makes me want to watch. But instead I’ll watch all the clips of him the next day.

Now that they did this again (I’d say for the second year in a row, except OBVIOUSLY it’s a much deeper problem than that), having Chris Rock host seems gross and minstrel-y on their part. I hope he rips them all to fucking shreds.

I think in NIkki's case you'd say she's lying through her teeth.

Yes. These people who are trying to shut down PP are wealthy and do not care what happens to the women who lose care. Also I’m sure they don’t understand the process, but the first point is more correct.

This is exactly what i said to my friend when i sent her this link. Where is Leslie Knope when you need her?!

I find this really annoying. Mostly I don’t take lunch so that I can leave as close to on time as possible. If I take lunch, then I’m just staying late another hour. Either way I get paid overtime. I love taking lunch, but I love actually going home more. I’m not a martyr or an asshole, just someone who works in a…

15 states mandating coverage is not enough, but it is still more than there used to be. I did not say that the ACA covered infertility, just that based on comments like yours, a lot of people assume they have zero coverage when they may actually be covered (or may be partially covered for the diagnostic portion). I…

That is amazing! Congrats to her! As long as my pregnancy has no issues (it’s still very early—we literally just finished IVF weeks ago), I think we’ll be out of pocket less than $3k including medicines and freezing/storage costs. Which is awesome. So we could have another child with our frozen embryos (and a second…

Plus many people doing more expensive out of pocket fertility treatments enter into risk sharing programs, so they have the money to adopt if the procedures don’t work. Adoption is amazing, but it’s hard.

Why do you feel comfortable assuming they didn’t consider adoption? Also, some people (myself included) have insurance coverage for infertility treatments. When we decided to do ivf it was for a lot of reasons, only one of which was a 29k difference in cost because of insurance. Do you ask people who can have children…

More people have insurance coverage for infertility treatments than anyone guesses (though still not enough). I doubt you care, but it’s worth putting out there for all the people actually going through this.

I don’t think she faked the birth date. And I mostly ignore Bristol Palin, but honestly, even more fun than a one-night stand is if she was just cheating on Dakota and got pregnant by someone else WHILE she was with him. She found out, and then tried to do the whole engagement so she could be married by the time of…

Now THAT is a Palin story I hope to hear a repeat of soon.

Thanks so much for reminding of the real issues!

I’ve never seen this before. It is SO funny/depressing (but so many funny things are depressing, that that’s OK). Thanks for sharing!