Good luck! I can imagine it's hard to be positive or optimistic, that seems totally relatable (sp?), but maybe clear and purpose driven is good? Those numbers are good and IVF is a very successful process overall (of course, individually, that may not be particularly relevant to you - trying to be positive). I…

UGH (which does not adequately reflect the empathy I feel for you). Not a dope to get excited about a pregnancy. It’s SO hard. And there’s no “right” way to feel about it.

The first time I got pregnant we were so excited, and so happy and so just delirious. We talked about it constantly. We had only just pulled the goalie and it happened right away. Amazing! I miscarried at 9 weeks.

But, this is directly contradictory to Casey - which affirmed Roe. Compliance with existing constitutional interpretation is clearly not on their radar. I just don't see why they don't say what they mean.

So, you can't abort a pregnancy if you can actually confirm the pregnancy? Love the logic. Just love it.

Baby girls named James is officially a "thing" in my super-hip Brooklyn neighborhood. So, really, she's joining a trend in progress. It's not a trend I'm am super into.

I'm with you - but I'm pregnant now. I hate it. That's not something I can say out loud to anyone but my husband. I'm not yet feeling connected or awed by the person inside me. S/he is there, growing (and so am I), and I am super conscientious about my food intake, sleep, exercise, etc. - even more than my usual…

So much this. A guy in my office who is probably late 20s and recently married, upon finding out I was pregnant, was very open and honest with things like: "it's really a big decision for women who work, huh? I had never thought much about it beyond 'do I or don't I want kids' but now talking about it with my…

I relate to this in many ways. I met my husband when I was 31. We got married when I was 34, and our first child will arrive when I'm 36 (and he's 38). I am excited to be having a baby - and terrified. I have a career, not just a job. I love it and it will be hard to slow down. My husband doesn't love his job,…

I planned my wedding not to overlap with the World Series on purpose.* And, luckily and amazingly, my team, whose games I have watched religiously since being a child, won that year. So, in the days prior to my wedding I was getting to enjoy the amazing awesomeness of an uber-fan having home-team win the World Series…

Interesting — I'm 35 and still only about 70% of my friends are married. Most of those were in the past 3-4 years. On average, maybe 10% of those folks had parents paying for anything. Maybe that's different when people get married younger, but what you're describing doesn't track my life experience/observations.

Two options:

On the one hand, I agree that the state should get out of the marriage regulating business. On the other, I don't think they should do it by wholly turning it over to religious institutions to then be formalized as a state sanctioned religious act. The current hybrid of state/religious marriage in the US is one part…

Really? I disagree it's mandatory. In my mind the only mandatory part was the paper work fees (re-acquiring proper birth certificates and getting the marriage certificate). If you have your birth certificate, a wedding costs less than $50.

They include engagement ring in wedding cost? That just seems like a convenient way to pad your numbers. I understand that it's part and parcel of the same package, but in many ways it's not a cost the couple usually shares and while it may be discussed to insure budgets are maintained, it just doesn't, to me, come…

The article doesn't say it was rejected because it was a legal system, it says it was rejected because it was "related to politics." Since Lego is not an American company, something this random Internet person happens to know, I thought that maybe they needed some education on the linguistic and factual differences…

Dear Lego,

I've been to her stand up shows. We are almost the exact same size human. The big difference is that in my world as a New Yorker/lawyer/normal, my physical size is unremarkable - maybe just-smaller-than-average amongst my peers, while in her world, she's told that she's larger than life, and not in a good way. I…

I was a bride. I planned a big(ish) wedding. I changed my (already pretty intense, because I love that sort of thing) workout routine to focus on arms, shoulders and back given my dress. I felt good about all of it and in no small part I chalk that up to 100% avoiding The Knot entirely as I went through my wedding…

This doesn't bother me that much really - the bands should negotiate for required promotions and social media recognition on the McDonald's accounts, if they think that being promoted by that brand is good exposure for them and reaches an appropriate target audience. That type of marketing is super valuable. That…