If the reason she doesn't want to leave her baby is her anxiety then yes, I'd say that is indicative of a potential problem. There's never wanting to leave your baby because you just love them so much and then there's never wanting to leave your baby because if you do, you suffer from crippling anxiety about their…

Can some others of the Recently Pregnant confirm or deny being screened for PPD at all postnatal OB/GYN and Pediatrics appointments you attended? I had thought this was normal but then this week a study on PPD was released that had been done at our local medical center that says that 10,000 women were given PPD…

Have you ever had pasteurized but non-homogenized? It's easier to find in stores (not easy, but easier) and is a kind-of-sort-of approximation of raw.

Delicious, delicious globules.... /homerdrool

Here in Pennsylvania we have raw milk in grocery stores! Well, not all grocery stores, the store has to care enough to apply for a license to sell it, but Whole Foods and the natural foods co-operative both sell it.

The taste and consistency are really that different. I love milk. LOVE IT. The difference between 2% and whole is fairly negligible to me but I would rather drink no milk at all than skim. Skim just tastes like chalky water to me. And I have a lot of friends who were raised on skim milk and cannot handle the taste of…

I have lived in DC, so I know about the high cost of living but trust me when I say that if you really wanted to have a kid, you could absolutely afford one on that salary, unless you have some monumental student loans. You might have to move further out and make some lifestyle changes, but a) having a kid does not…

It is, though when you have a very young baby people cut you a lot more slack. I don't know why everyone just assumes that it's only newborns who disturb their parents sleep because I know way more moms whose babies slept great as newborns but were hot night-waking messes at 6 months than the other way around.

It mainly means a reality show wanted something dramatic on which to pin their premise on. This isn't meant to be cutting-edge scientific research, it's meant to be a dramatic montage featured on a TV show.

It's an article about a reality TV show about moms so yes, the article is about moms. I feel like I read a completely different article than every other person in the comments.

Bingo. There is no scientific research to back up the first assertion but a whole whackload to back up the second.

I'm not getting the hostility here. This is an article about a reality TV show. It's not supposed to be science reporting (which I will be the first to admit sucks here).

Me and Mr. Samarkand really did get equal time (8 weeks a piece) and he was allowed to split his as 4 weeks immediately after the birth and then 4 weeks back in the office and then 4 weeks after I went back to work and he got to be the SAHP until our son was 12 weeks old. It was absolutely positively 100% an amazing…

Who says you can't eat spicy food or garlic and breastfeed?

Let me save everyone time:

Pretty much this. When I articulated this for my husband I think he started to get it. When someone walks into our house and sees a mess, they do not think, "Wow, that guy is a poor housekeeper." They think, "Wow, that lady is a poor housekeeper." When my our son is in ratty clothes and my husband takes him out,…

An American company invested in developing its lower level staff ? Someone bring me my fainting couch, quick!

There's also the concept of DINOS: Dogs In Need of Space: http://dogsinneedofspace.com/

Pretty much anyone who has taken a childbirth preparation class knows this.

In most (all, I would hope?) hospitals they are extremely up-tight about anyone who is not medical staff peeking over the curtain. If your birth partner(s) even get up off the stools they are told to sit in, they will be escorted from the room. What your friend experienced is really really really not standard…