On Monday, we just happened to finish watching the previous night's Homeland in time to be able to tune into Sleepy Hollow live, and it was such a confusing moment. I said, "Hey, Sleepy Hollow's on!" Husband said, "Oh! Okay!" and moved to plug his laptop back into the TV. There was an awkward moment of silence before…

The majority of comments for this on Gawker were so clueless. HOW COULD U LAYDEEZ HAVE A PROBLEM WITH RAISING MONEY FOR BOOBIE CANCER ha ha I said boobies.

Do talk to your doc. My bad-bad experience was that pregnancy was meh (there were problems but nothing too horrifying) but carrying a baby around was murder. Good quality supportive baby carrying things helped a lot. The ERGObaby carrier is a miracle (and priced accordingly).

Some of those things you have control over, some you don't, and some of it just kind of depends on where you live/who you hang out with. No one ever touched me without my permission and I don't really recall too many stupid comments. But I'm a Nice White Lady clearly procreating during the culturally-approved-of time…

If you've got questions, I've got answers (probably). Shoot. I won't sugar-coat. I love being a mom and there's no point in hiding this stuff from women. If you want to have a child, you'll still do it anyway, you'll just go into it with open eyes. And hopefully not feel like a failure when you spend 9 months feeling…

Hey also! Relaxin is the hormone that loosens up joints so that your pelvis is able to expand and birth your baby. But it's equal opportunity about what it loosens, so every joint in your body gets floppy and all your sphincters (hello heartburn!). And it sticks around if you breastfeed. I have a bad back and while I…

My mom had me when she was 25. I had my son when I was a couple months shy of 38. We both had c-sections. My mom could not stop her tsk-tsking at me over how I was still hobbling around and having difficulty walking a couple days later. She said she was taking exercise classes while still in the hospital (back when…

I'm not down with the "pregnancy is yucky and gross" stuff but it isn't false that it takes a toll on your body in a myriad of ways. That's just a medical fact. You don't have to be distressed about this fact, but it's still a fact.

Unfortunately, my husband was a teacher at the high school (and I was a former substitute teacher and was in grad school getting my teaching masters so was in the future going to be intern teaching in local schools) so you can imagine how fucking with them would have gone over. That place was owned by a big county…

I also hated my time living in a small town. If you did anything even remotely out of the acceptable "norm" (either extremely conservative almost-fundy Catholic, or actualfax fundy Protestant, straight, heteronormative, misogynistic, racist, classist) you better believe people started talking shit about you. I worked…

Why so many shoes? Because patriarchy has placed a premium on female visual attractiveness in a way that it has not for males. Next question?

Your story is triggering this deep panic response in my mom-brain. AAAAAAAAAAAAAAOMG WHAT?!

So I should expect any day now for us 100% bare-faced ladies to suddenly become the social norm for female beauty since we're aren't "tricking" anyone? Good to know. Thanks, Reddit!

You look "awful" according to who? There is no objective measure of attractiveness, it is socially mitigated. You learned that some people think that people who look like you do without makeup look "awful." It is not an objective fact of the universe.

Speak for yourself please. It is not at all inconceivable that there are some people who can continue to feel good about themselves no matter what they look like.

With a lot of kids (especially when they are babies/toddlers) it doesn't matter what time you put them to bed, they get up around the same time of the morning regardless. Putting down later just results in an overtired baby because they still get up at the same time. I figure the early-rising is something I can deal…

I think there's a lot of unspoken but understood subtext underneat "I wear it for myself because I feel good in it!" You feel good in it because the rest of society treats you with approval when you look the way they expect you to look. The way people look at you or treat you when you conform to expectations is the…

Some babies/kids just don't sleep due to their unique biology but oh man am I such a freak about bedtime. Nap time, too. No one messes with nap time or bedtime. I flat out do not understand parents who choose not to institute a regular bedtime because bedtime=I get some freaking time to myself every night and who…

Not watching in solidarity, sister.

I occasionally get invited to pick and ~~~~bliss~~~~~ He's got these two spots on his back that are just like perma-blackheads and I just can't stay away from their siren song.