My husband and I are just finishing up 6ish months apart, and that was my first thought too!

I’m trusting that you are really being sincere in your question...people want to have babies because it is a natural biological impulse to propagate the species. Of course, not everyone feels it, and there are plenty of people who don’t want kids, but there are plenty who do. It’s so, your question is kind of like…

I agree that it would be ideal if we could all just believe other people, but I see value to this too. Heck, if I weren’t a menstrating woman, I would probably just think “How hard can it be to maintain a supply of tampons and keep on schedule to change them every so often?” and be really smug about it.

I’m with you, I didn’t hate it either. It wasn’t perfect, but they know that. I agree that it really captured the helpless feeling well. I’m a 30 year old woman who has it “together” on the outside, but I still have a “Oh no, I don’t have another tampon with me!” or “Holy crap, am I bleeding through my pants even…

I’m with you. It’s not perfect, but it’s better than nothing. They acknowledge that it’s not perfect.

Dang! That really makes things complicated. I don’t have kids yet, but when I interviewed for grad school, I didn’t even think about it and kept my wedding ring on. I think I got “hinting” questions at every school.

Woah. That’s messed up obviously.

I go either way...If this is all he’s carrying around, I think it’s a little weird (though good intentioned), but I think there’s a decent chance he’s just kind of a “be prepared” type of guy. If he’s got Tylenol, bandaids, and that type of stuff in his fannypack too, it’s not weird to toss in a couple of tampons.

Also, it’s been 2 weeks according to the article. I mean, so far it’s been just like doing a long-ish camping trip or something.

“on the lamb”

“I always thought I’d grow up to be Superman, how’d I get cheated into being a Normal?!”

Those infants need to pull themselves up by their tiny infant bootstraps.

Well, that’s heartbreaking. Glad it turned out okay for her, but I imagine it was probably super stressful for her to deal with.

What a good idea! That was part of the reason I never got into cooking, I didn’t really know how to season or what to use, and I was too busy starting out my carreer and stuff to devote a ton of time to learning...so I made some plain chicken and was like “This is terrible. Not doing this again.”

That’s a perfect example of me being blind to something based on my own experiences! Because where I’m from is rural and cold, I feel like a greater proportion of people owned cars, so I tend to totally forget about that as an issue. What a hassle!

Totally to the cooking thing! Cooking is EXPENSIVE if you don’t have staples.

Yeah, he’s super rural. I’m totally with you, I think there are more ways to be creative about storage, where as not being near something is kind of a game ender. I’m coming at this without kids though, I definitly see how that could change my opinion too.

YES! My husband is a great example. Like, he’s well-intentioned, he’s not someone who goes around bad-mouthing the poor for being lazy or stupid, but there are a ton of things he just didn’t think about.

Yes! That’s such a great point that I often overlook, because I tend to think about it in terms of what I’ve seen my dad experience, and he does have the storage space, but so many people don’t.

The not-being-able-to-buy-in-bulk issue (for anything, not just diapers) is one that so many middle/upper class people don’t understand. The first time my husband visited my family, he was appalled when my dad bought a single role of paper towels from the grocery story. Later, he whispered to me “I thought money was…