its wrong to degrade her with the snarky term ‘newly minted feminist’ when it seems that her whole family is pro-femme and has most likely, grown up with these ideals...

that article is transphobic as fuck.

I second the chantix! It was a magic charm for me - heavy, 20 year smoker! 5 years later blissfully smoke free now. Not a thought of it!!

Lol at the idea of more rape because of more oversight on cops. Tighter control on cops is only going to reduce sexual assaults.

WHATEVER HATERZ

She's gorgeous!

It’s important to note that men and women can have somewhat different symptoms. I had more pain in my shoulder, nausea, cold sweat and a major feeling of dread. Women are also more likely to dismiss the signs as gas or muscle pain. So if you even think it could be get to a hospital. At worst you’ll feel foolish.

Once again Janice is snubbed.

No judgment here. You basically were being tortured, sounds like. I take it this was after people knew you shouldn’t smoke during pregnancy, or you wouldn’t be bothered about it yourself, but still I find this very understandable. A little escape, a tiny bit of autonomy... you must have needed that very badly just…

Thank you, Miss Piggy, for teaching me how to karate chop boys. Well deserved!

Whatever you do- don’t go to Quitters Inc.

It really depends on where/how the child was conceived. In CA if it was done through medical intervention, there is intent and legal standing. If it was done at home, the donor is a father with no second mother. Different states have murkier rules.

This makes sense. I knew I was very high risk for postpartum depression so when I read these studies promoting the benefits of encapsulating the placenta I was all on board. It was pretty disappointing when I still got hit with a very severe case of PPD. So one less thing to blame my body for failing at. Woohoo!

Not all of us “third world” people do that shit.

I am a fucking hippie. I freely acknowledge this undisputed fact. I homebirthed. Loved it. I buried all four of my placentas in the yard and planted a fucking tree on top of them. I breastfed way past my kids being able to have full conversations about how and when they would like to nurse. I coslept. I made my own…

Yeah, considering the placenta basically gets delivered into a glorified trash bag attached under your bum, there is no way I would put that in my mouth.

As a “Third World” (TM) inhabitant I can tell you, only hippies do that. And I mean middle class hippies.

This is kind of a relief to me- my midwife insisted I take my placenta home and drink it in a smoothie the next day. I took it home, put it in the fridge, and could not bring myself to even look at it.

When asked for her reason to annul, Griner simply blamed it on the rain.

Update (4:08 p.m.):