Thanks for this. I agree that Jezebel’s presentation of this study is disappointing. Lately I’ve noticed a pattern of J. describing mothers’ bodies as gross and our births as sexualised.

In my own anecdotal n of 2 study, my C/S baby has been plagued with eczema and asthma while my VBAC (and delayed bath) baby is…

You’re welcome. I wish the story had been presented here properly.

Who said anything about fundamentally integral? And I think the logic was more like:

It’s not a trend! It’s a goddamn scientific study.

I’m baffled and dismayed by all the negative responses.

It’s small but it’s designed as a proof-of-principle or pilot study, not a large scale epidemiological one. Basically you run a small study to see if your hypothesis holds water and then scale up if it does (like experimenting on animals or ex vivo before doing a human study).

kink shaming is not okay

Please remember that kink shaming is not okay

Instead of having an alternative to Mrs for men, I think we should go with your idea in a slightly different way. “Hello David Smithmeister, right this way.”

Our names made a ridiculously bad portmanteau, and so we ended up just deciding which one to keep. We went with his, but it meant a lot to me that his first question was, “so what should we make our last name be?”