10/10 use of “yonic.” I wish yoni were still a thing like it was in the seventies.

:( that sucks so much and I’m really sorry that happened to you.

Wow, what a lame midwife. Geez. :(

Well, in the first few weeks, babies need about 8-12 feeds/day to gain well. So if a baby sleeps for more than 3 hours, it’s time to wake her up. But once a baby is gaining well (~1 0z/day) it’s fine to follow his rhythm. It won’t disrupt milk supply to feed a little less often than that. If a baby isn’t gaining…

That is AWESOME :) I think that children are most enabled to be independent when they know they are unconditionally nurtured by their parents. Cosleeping and nursing are great for independence, despite all the jokes about “will you sleep in his dorm room” or whatever.

This is where postpartum doulas can really help! You can usually get newer ones to work at very reasonable prices, too.

Circumcision is genital mutilation, full stop. Even if you don’t have children, or have girls but not boys, it’s a pretty huge ethical issue in my opinion. It’s a brutal, brutal thing to do to a tiny person. Imagine cutting off the foreskin of an adult man without anesthesia. It isn’t any different.

What baffles me is that the easiest way for families to get good sleep even with a new baby is to have the baby sleep in the bed with the parents (with appropriate safety measures) or in a little “sidecar” and breastfeed. Literally all you have to do is yank your shirt down and pull the baby close to you...keep some…

SF muni buses are actually just vile places. Never seen anything too gross on the light rail, though I have been on it while a bunch of teens smoked a bowl. And people do sometimes get it on in the commuter train at night.

I feel like compared to 24th & Mission that’s actually a pretty good choice.

You’re into it, huh? It was always a necessity/horny teenager thing for me. My places are like An Alcove at the Local Community College or In Our Friend’s Basement While He Was At Work.

My ex from high school really liked to do it in public. Once, in the bushes by the beach, I found a hypodermic syringe right where we were going to lay down our blanket for nasty doing. I just kicked it out of the way. We also had sex on the washing machine in a total stranger’s house during a house show concert. But…

I like to sit outside so I can take my dog with me :) Lots of restaurants here actually have blankets you can use on your lap, too. I think it's also just a way to seat as many people as possible when the indoor area is a small space. SF is notorious for its restaurant lines; we take what tables we can get.

For a while I was a barista/cashier for a bakery. I worked with some dazzlingly incompetent people. One morning I came in to open to discover that for the third time in a month, the person scheduled to open with me had no-showed. So I got everything going by myself, but was starving (no time to scarf down a roll in…

I'm sure you could skip the argument and just make an iced latte...they undoubtedly would not know the difference.

I'd argue that it is actually possible to do this - I made a few in my day. Basically, I'd steam milk to be almost all foam, let it sit for a minute, spoon a ton of the foam into a cup, dump ice in, and then pour the espresso and milk in together. I'm sure they were weird, but hey, foaming milk is pretty fun, so I…

Seriously. Maybe on their foreheads in this case.

Wristband + hotel room look :)

And this is clearly happening in an all-inclusive resort guestroom. Nice.

If you're at all neurotic, it's pretty great. Try doing it over a move. Throw out the old ones, get new ones. Nobody likes to pack/unpack boxes of hangers anyway amirite?