If it makes you feel any better my first thought was “finally, an article about maternal health that doesn’t center around breastfeeding”

Teachers are mandated reporters. As a teacher, I would never report a parent for being unable to help a child with their homework (now with Common Core this happens in math all the time! Haha ;) ). I sincerely think that there is more to this story than you might be privy to.

I think it’s okay to offend adults when children are involved. No child deserves to be treated like a learning experience for an adult who isn’t competent.

How was that not brought up in the write-up? That seems SUPER-relevant. :-/

Why are we so paranoid about what pregnant women see?

Zac Efron....

I am here for Zac Efron’s “hot phase.” Damn.

I know it’s been said, many times many ways, but the impression that I got from the doc wasn’t so much that Avery was definitely innocent, but just that the investigation and trial were messed up enough to warrant a second look.

Marriages don’t end in large part because of “settling,” but because people fail to communicate and build a relationship over time.

I have an idea:

I tried to tell my fetus that I had to eat a balance diet with fresh fruits and veggies. I read her articles, showed her statistics, the works! And she was all “lol how about you just eat plain noodles for 14 weeks or I’ll make you puke up everything you’ve ever loved.” Babies, man. What jerks.

I had gestational diabetes in all of my pregnancies and I have never really eaten any potatoes. But I do have other risk factors that made it happen.

As a pregnant woman, can I just say that I am so goddamn sick of seeing a new study every week telling me I’m doing something wrong? This is my first pregnancy and it is scary enough without some dude in a lab discovering that I may already be a terrible mother because I ate a fucking potato for dinner.

Women will complain about anything these days. It’s like, if you don’t want to have your face ejaculated on, don’t injure your shoulder...seems pretty simple to me.

I think it was certainly wrong, and his actions were unacceptable, no question. Whether or not I’d personally label it “rape” is sort of unimportant, I think.

Giving men paternity leave would actually go a long way toward destigmatizing maternity leave. Right now we treat raising children, and particularly babies, as almost entirely the mother’s responsibility. Women are penalized for procreating and men are not because women are expected to make major lifestyle and career…

Good Idea: Paid telecommuting options should be expanded for new parents (particularly women) so that employers cannot use an experience differential to justify a pay gap.

The only people who suggest this are people who've never taken care of an infant 24/7. Having taken care of 3 of them it just makes me laugh and laugh and laugh.

I LOVE how people just casually suggest that working from home is equivalent to maternity leave, like it’s so easy to work while caring for a newborn. The first three months with my second born were so intense that taking a shower felt like a major accomplishment.