Last week one of the girls from Teen Mom made headlines when she had her hair styled into dreadlocks. As soon as there was an outcry that this was cultural appropriation the masses of the internet came out to say there’s no such thing as cultural appropriation/ she was just admiring black culture/ PC culture has…

I think that’s pretty unfair. Everyone is drawn to different sorts of music, and not really liking one song doesn’t mean that you aren’t trying to see things through other peoples eyes. I don’t like that weird throat singing but it doesn’t mean I can empathize with the struggles of the people who make it.

Ignore this person. They’re reaching. It’s not like you’re saying “I don’t like all ____ music because I don’t get it.” You can like an artist and not like every single thing they do. You like Beyonce. You like a lot of her songs. You personally think that Formation, is hard to listen to, not because of the lyrics,…

My mom is physical therapist and her old practice used to have tons of patients coming in who had been screwed up by chiropractors. To this day she practically spits that they are allowed to refer to themselves as “Doctor.”

I don’t think that’s what the quote was saying, they were just pulling examples from that idea. I am completely on conventional medicine’s side, but I would like to try natural childbirth when I have a kid. I like the idea of being present throughout it and letting my body do the awesome things its capable of doing.

lol fair. It’s just.. I’m a googler. I research everything. I just want to be able to reach out to people who aren’t nutters about whatever weird shit my body or my kid does and hear “Oh no, that’s normal, relax” and not “You should really be drinking a tincture of tea tree oil for that”. I don’t really have parent…

But I don’t have real friends :(

We’re here. But we don’t join “mommy” groups :)

Not on the Internet.

The problem is that normal, “moderate’ people like you and I don’t have strong and crazy opinions about every single issue involving children. And the things we do have opinions about we mostly keep to ourselves because we’re nice, polite people and don’t feel like arguing with nutcases.

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 When they showed up at the hospital, they wanted to know when the appointment they’d originally made was.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…

Maybe because they're responsible for little children and want their office to have herd immunity? Also, if every pediatrician has this policy then parents would have to vaccinate.

Ugh, my sister’s friend recently had a baby at home with just the services of a ‘natural midwife’ who I have to believe is a charlatan. When the mother was informed that her baby was breech and there wasn’t enough amniotic fluid to turn the baby safely, she and this fucking monster of a midwife ‘did some research’ and…

As Mr. Squid and I are planning our first pregnancy soon, I’ve been sitting here wondering: Where do I find “Mommy” groups/blogs/books/whathaveyou SOME sort of community that isn’t full of that kind of thinking? Like, a group that won’t shun me if I end up not able to breastfeed and am okay with public schools.…

Ughhhhhhh “chemicals.” My sister-in-law had her first baby a week ago. We went down to meet him this past weekend and I learned she was going to be one of “those” moms who has a vendetta against anything with “chemicals.” Unfortunately, she’s having a hard time producing enough breast milk, but she’s giving herself…

Yes, parents who severely limit their children’s diet for no good reason and insist on gluten-soy-dairy-whatever free everything drive me crazy. Especially because of my nieces, one is a diagnosed celiac, and the other has a severe egg allergy (as in, goes into anaphylactic shock, we have an epi-pen handy at all…

I’m seeing a chiro for the first time tomorrow for on-going lower back pain. I have always been skeptical because quacks, etc but I want to avoid a bunch of pain meds and I have to do something. I’m holding out hope that they will be normal, but the first sign of essential oils and I will hobble myself out of there.

I’m cool on #2, but refusing to see parents who have guns in the home I’m less sure about. I can understand and respect an opposition to recreational firearms, but for children whose parents work in law enforcement, that doesn’t seem like an entirely reasonable stance to take.

I worked for an “old-timey” chiropractor for several years, and personally saw patients who had “thrown something out” and were barely able to walk without assistance leave the office an hour later able to move like a new person. There’s definitely something to it, but so many younger chiros are spending more time on…

I fucking hate the term “natural childbirth.” What you want is an unmedicated vaginal birth. There’s nothing “natural” about giving birth in a hospital under the supervision of doctors and nurses or in a manmade bathtub. Truly natural childbirth is fucking dangerous and traumatic, and medical technology has made it…