If your friends are criticizing your very valid choice, it may be because your choice to have a baby is forcing them to reevaluate their choice to delay having a child. Maybe you having a baby makes them uncomfortable. Whatever it is, it's their problem, not yours. You have the right to make whatever choices you like…

Ooooh, thanks! I'm going to watch it right now. I have insomnia and that sounds like the perfect "can't sleep" movie.

It sounds like you're doing some serious thinking and making some good decisions. If your father isn't participating in his own care but actively fights being healthy and fights you caring for him, then stepping away for a bit may be necessary. As his child, you don't owe him your life and your life should never be…

I've seen the behavior you describe at every one of my children's schools, too. If your kids get into sports or some other competitive extracurricular, be prepared to see even worse parent behavior. Parents behaving terribly is endemic at sporting events.

But he's NOT published. At least once a writer is published he has the status of having been selected for publication (and perhaps even a bit of money) to ameliorate the criticism he might get. But you just pulled writing of this guy's blog and posted it here to be ridiculed. I guess I just don't understand why.

Yes, his writing is bad but it feels cruel for it to be posted here for mocking.

That was a fake panic attack. It's physiologically impossible to have a panic attack, which is characterized by rapid heartbeats and a release of stress hormones and, as she claimed, pass out during the panic attack. Fainting is characterized by low blood pressure and slower heartbeats, exactly opposite of the fear…

I believe that in my state of Florida that malpractice insurance cost more than in any other state, at least at few years ago it did. That was one of the arguments the doctors were making, that they didn't just want to quit delivering babies like a lot of OB/GYNs had done.

Frivolous lawsuits have really gotten out of hand. I worked with a woman who sued her OB because her baby was born with a congenital birth defect and died because of it. I don't think she knew what "congenital" meant so in her mind it was the doctor's fault.

I think it did say something about binding arbitration, now that you mention it. At the time, my state of Florida had the most expensive OB/GYN malpractice insurance costs in the country and there weren't enough OBs to go around so I understand why the practice did it. But if I'd been having a baby I think I would…

I wondered at the time if it would be binding. Something tells me no. And yes, I have a new doctor now.

I signed so I could get the prescription I needed but I never went back.

It really caught me off guard because I had been going there a while and it was a new thing. I needed the prescription I had come for so I signed, got my prescription, and then never went back. If I had been going there for OB care, I think I would have had to leave, though. I've never sued anyone and hate frivolous…

I don't think camp is the right way to go with her story. Eileen Ford was hardcore and a good businessman; her story would make a great straight drama. It's got all the elements, money, sex, beauty, jealousy, glamour, and cutthroat business practices that make for compelling drama. With good writers it could a Mad…

I ONLY read the filtered out Yelp reviews if I use Yelp.

I once went to a OB/GYN who asked me to sign a form saying I wouldn't sue for malpractice before they'd see me. They handed me an iPad and had me watch a video about the effects of malpractice suits on OB/GYNs' ability to deliver babies and practice medicine, had me read a long explanation of why they didn't carry…

Too bad people aren't allowed to take Accutane anymore. Two courses of that and I've never had another cystic acne breakout.

That is the sweetest story!

Yeah, chokers are tricky to wear and most women should pass.

Oh, gee, another comment on her age...