The dryer suggestion is a good one. The washer suggestion is really flirting with sweater disaster. Heat + agitation = felt. Even washable wool (superwash) usually should only be washed in cold and will felt if washed in hot.

Shit like this just confirms my preference for pants.

With my second, I knew the conception date, but was a little fuzzy on my LMP. So I made up a LMP that would sync with the doctors expectations about my pregnancy length. Start fudging your LMP, ladies!!

When my husband was a kid they had a collie. MIL was a single mom who went back to school. The collie was a great companion for the kids playing outside, because that dog would herd the kids back to the house if they wandered too far from the house or too close to the road, which gave MIL more time to study.

there is still prejudice against male babysitters. http://www.freerangekids.com/is-it-normal-n…

Had my babies at 39 and 41. Pushed < 30 minutes with each. With the first I dialated so fast the nurses didn't believe me when I said I REALLY NEEDED TO PUSH.

I'm not. The AMA is going put more women into a maternal health care system that has some real issues. Doctors make decisions based on what won't get them sued. C-section rates are ever increasing. Even if the AMA did make a positive difference, there are a lot of forces working again families in terms of education…

this floors me. My 2.5 and 4.5 year olds don't weight that much combined.

I actually thing baby showers (sans the stupid games ) should be co-ed. Leaving out dads from this early point sends the message that they shouldn't be as involved in the child care as the mom. Not inviting dads to the baby shower is inviting them to be the secondary parent.

geez. I thought it was bad that my cat loves to chew on ear waxy q tip. (That's why we got trash cans with lids.)

along with burning calories, you are going to be hungrier than a teenage boy and thirstiest than an untreated diabetic.

"If you are boiling you can do 8 eggs max. "

I don't know when gifts for every holiday became a thing, but as a parent, I hate it. In my case, it seems to be the grandparents driving it. No matter how many times we tell my/his parents that we don't want a constant influx of gifts, they bring them over anyway. All we can say at this point is that most of it will…

I think the point of giving your kid the chickenpox vaccine is that if you never get chicken pox, you will never get shingles. The only people that get shingles are those that have had chicken pox. So the vax doesn't just prevent chicken pox, it prevents shingles, which is more painful, serious and CAN have permanent…

Questions (serious). Would you consider food prepared in a public restroom to be safe enough for a person with an under-developed immune system to eat? Would you yourself eat food prepared in a public restroom? Would you want all your daytime meals on weekdays to be prepared in a public restroom?

I occasionally use youListen. Not sure how the features compare.

Also we had a dog as a kid that ate a box of crayons and that was some colorful poop.

My 4 yo loves the vivid cyan dino crunch ice cream from the nearby pizza/ice cream joint. It turns his poop green to green/blue and he loves the ice cream all the more for it.

Yes, this is how pregnancy is dated, and they assume conception occurs at 14 days even if 1) your cycles are consistently longer/shorter 2) you were tracking fertility and know when you were fertile (common when people are trying to conceive). 3) know when you had the sex that resulted in pregnancy. Honestly, when I…

Actually, they usually sell the foreskin (http://www.theatlantic.com/daily-dish/pri…) They just get you coming and going. I've heard that some hospitals try to charge for circumcision even if you don't have it done.