If you can break up leave, that can work really well. My husband got 8 weeks (!!!!—enormous multinational firm with European roots, all parents regardless of gender get 8 weeks paid leave in the US) and split it up. He took 4 weeks when I first had our son, and we got to spend that time learning how to be parents…

Yes. Someone with a kid my son's same age once told me they didn't like Daniel Tiger because it was too goody-goody. Um. Goody-goody is what you want for a toddler, because in their natural state they are sociopathic little anarchists. You may not enjoy it because you already know that grown-ups come back and that…

It's because the thing that makes their margins so thin isn't the food, it's the rent and the staff and the equipment. The food is an afterthought in that equation. And since Americans have been sort of trained to see quantity and "value" as positive attributes for meals, serving large portions will keep customers…

Oh lawd.

Yes. Two billion lifetimes. My husband was going to take his parental leave beginning the day I actually had the baby but instead opted to stay home with me the last few days of my eternal pregnancy because he was concerned for my mental health. DID I MENTION IT WAS JULY??? We scheduled the induction for Monday…

I said to many, many people that if someone could just apparate the baby out of me, that would really be the most preferable. (Just so you know, you also get needle-in-the-spine for most c-sections. General anesthesia is only used when there is a crash emergency or there something else highly unusual contraindicating…

Gurl I went to 42 weeks D:

omg my cervix is wincing. I don't know about this lady but when I was a thousand years pregnant, I was getting head-butted in the cervix with like every single step.

My c-section was extremely traumatic. Something went not-quite-right with my anesthesia (spinal block) and I went into a terrifying dissociative state. I remember calling for help a lot, I vaguely remember my son being born and being shown to me, I remember dry-heaving except you're paralyzed from the neck down so…

How I know I am not an athlete: I don't understand why anyone does this. Like, by all means, be fit, work out, whatever, but I don't understand it when people do purely optional things that come with a side-order of risk of death. See also: all extreme sports and climbing fucking Everest.

I am not a morning person, but I have a pretty tightly-schedule morning involving a toddler and daycare drop-off and (right now) snow removal and getting to work by 8:30 AM. I just got the app Puzzle Alarm for Android and a stack of NFC tags (just to play with them—they're cheap, why not?), stuck a tag on the wall in…

Big Pharma actually makes next to nothing on standard vaccines. So much so that the government often has to step in and encourage them to hop to and make more, because there's really no financial incentive for them to do so.

It's basically just a continuation of anti-GMO beliefs. The attenuated, killed or live viruses present in vaccines are lab-grown and possible genetically modified or otherwise 'manufactured' life forms. Wild viruses are organic, free-range, and wholesome.