I’m so glad that this movie was spoiled for me (not by this review) because marketing postpartum psychosis as a cute, quirky twist is NOT a minuscule (which is how it’s spelled, btw) problem. It’s a severe form of mental illness that can have devastating consequences for moms and babies. And brushing it off as “her…

Mr. Sheffield must have been meshuggeneh to pass on Cats.

This is pretty common for kids’ stuff, unfortunately. You gotta clean ERRTHANG.

My husband and I have been taking our daughter out to eat with us since she was in the Adorable Potato stage. Now she’s almost 2, and we’ve got our routine down.
1. Go to child-friendly restaurants. Not saying just go to Applebee’s, but places that have high chairs, are fairly noisy/busy, and on the casual to…

That’s not mansplaining, though. That’s talking to someone who has very little knowledge of the subject. (Granted, it would be possible to handle that conversation either kindly or very condescendingly.)

Mansplaining would be if you were in the mechanic’s shop and talked over the [female] mechanic while she tried to…

It’s so tough. My husband is in his first year of a two-year fellowship for child and adolescent psychiatry (after completing med school and three years of general psych residency). He had another career before returning to med school, so he is older than many of his classmates—he was 38 when our daughter was born,…

Why do we have blame old ordinary garden variety (ha) snakes when we could have? https://www.britannica.com/topic/naga-Hindu-mythology

I’ve gone over this section of the third paragraph several times and it still doesn’t quite read properly: “ If you think “it’s only the Internet,” or “it’s only a group of moms,” well, you haven’t been awake in the middle of the night, alone, with an urgent question—“Is an umbilical-cord stump supposed to look like…

Oh, so *now* a woman’s choice is supposed to be valid?