I wouldn’t be surprised if there was. I didn’t have PPD, but I did experience Dysphoric Milk Ejection Reflex . When I talked to my mom about these feelings that I’d experience while breastfeeding it turned out she did too while she breastfed me.

This guy is the worst. The damage he has caused to countless children and their families, and the zero shame he has. Just ugh.

It’s very difficult for even well-to-do parents to use cloth diapers all the time, and it always has been, including sixty years ago when one half-decent job was enough to support a family. Having kids pre-disposables was often a home hell of shit and string beans.

Cloth is great for the environment and tons of people will tell you all day long about how it’s not that hard, so much better etc. Hell, I used disposables with my kids and I still think we should probably all be using cloth because disposables take like eleventy bazillion years to biodegrade or something. HOWEVER, we…

And frankly I wouldn’t be surprised if lots of laundromats refused to allow diaper washing. A machine full of poop? I can hear the complaints now.

Not a troll, but true story, when I was born, my parents only had cloth diapers, no cleaning service, no washing machine I’m pretty sure. For many years I wondered how my mother managed with this without killing her pooping machine of a child, and then it hit me that this having been in a socialist country, my mother…

I was just about to say, before anyone comes in here all self righteous about cloth diapers, cloth diapers plus Laundromat+bus+more than one kid=fucking expensive nightmare and entirely impractical.

I didn’t think I cold love Obama anymore than I did. God, I was wrong. And for whatever troll comes in here talking about cloth diapers, cleaning those gets expensive too. Money for the Laundromat, getting to the Laundromat, etc. ..

If you want your children to see these things, here’s a novel idea- take them whale watching! Let them see orcas in their natural habitat! Not in what amounts to a fish bowl for unhappy cetaceans. The whales deserve better, and if you really want your children to learn about orcas, the kids deserve better too.

A theater near us does “Cry Day” screenings of first run movies so that parents of very young parents can go to the movies with their infants and not feel bad about it. The screenings are usually midday on a weekday, so catering to folks on parental leave or who stay at home (or, I guess, are playing hooky from work).…

Sucks for parents who can’t find evening sitters.

I acknowledge that people are incredibly beautiful between 18 and 25. But, I’m not, like, attracted to them anymore. That’s what confuses me. The desire to be with people that young. As I get older, what I’m attracted to is no longer confined exclusively to what they look like. And, I feel like that is basically a…

The older I get, the more convinced I am that there’s something fundamentally wrong with men who continue insisting that 18-year-old women are the most attractive women.

I am so torn about this. The girls (Jill, Jessa, and the other kids) have very few options open to them going forward because they were raised in a cult and are taught to be subservient and that their own beliefs and wants don’t matter. With no real options, I can’t really begrudge their doing this and I just hope…

It seems like the failure was more than just the law, but a society that seemed unable to offer this woman and her family safe and reliable options to report and escape the abuse for decades on end. And this is clearly not exclusive to France.

Can we just get it in our heads that it is not solely the duty of infertile people to carry the burden of our foster care systems? This woman has already adopted three anyways, but it seems like whenever an infertile person seeks to birth a biological child there are a bunch of people just waving their hands around…

Let’s be real: thin people co-opt the body positive movement for themselves and leave fat and disabled people - the people who created the BP movement and need it most - out in the cold. Whatever, not applause for Kim from me on this one.

That’s great that she is empowered by her body. I just wish she was empowered by something other than her looks.

“I don’t want her to grow up in a world where she is made to feel less-than for embracing everything it means to be a woman.”

I really do love her message here... but it doesn’t erase the discomfort I have with the way she and her sisters are selling this image and definition of “woman” as something SO totally far from the natural state of woman. The pounds of multi-colored contouring make-up, the waist trainers, the diet pills... It’s like,…