Thanks for sharing. That makes me feel a lot better. I appreciate your kind words.

I am 4 months along with my second and failed horribly with breastfeeding (complete lack of supply). Did you find that you had more success the second time? I am giving myself permission to not beat myself up if it does not work out, though.

I (black woman, in my early-20s at the time) recall being pulled over by a cop on my way home from work for no reason that I can discern. While I was sitting in my car waiting for the cop to approach, I noticed that 2 other cop cars joined her. For the life of me I could not understand why they thought that much…

I decided not to put much stock into anything Zoe says or does ever since she made the self-serving decision to portray Nina Simone.

Meh. A little arsenic is worth not having to go through life completely sober.

I thought breastfeeding would be easy and "natural". I never gave the possibility that I wouldn't be able to do it a second thought. I tried EVERYTHING: lactation counselors, pumping, hand expressing, on-demand cluster feeding, supplements, feeding my kid formula through a tube so he would experience nipple…

It took a while to accept that I didn't fail my son - maybe a year. I felt a pang of guilt each time I gave him formula (which is odd because I was formula-fed and super-healthy as a wee babe). It also didn't help matters that a dear friend of mine had a child around the same time I did and she was able to have the…

Yes! I had an unplanned and unwanted C-section too. I then suffered from a post-partum hemorrhage and a raging infection to boot. My milk didn't come in for 10 days and when it finally did it was literally droplets. It took several weeks of research and emotionally beating myself up to learn that a post-partum…

I am a person who is very anal about money. My boyfriend is broke with shitty credit.

My mom had a bad stomachache with nausea. She would have vomiting episodes at night. This went on for a week. She went to 3 different hospitals and was turned away each time with diagnoses of unspecified gastrointestinal distress, constipation and heartburn. Finally, she went to the emergency room one last time and…

Apparently, Perry is a family friend. He was also in LA and preparing to head to Atlanta when he heard the news. He offered his private plane to fly Bobby Brown to be by his daughter's side.

Yes, these comments are unnecessarily assholish. I have a great deal of sympathy for addicts, particularly because the only person they are hurting are themselves. We should save the vitriol for the real evil in the world - not for a talented, young woman who struggled and failed to conquer her own demons.

If we based who received statues based on whether or not they were good role models or moral figures than we'd probably have very, very few statues. Hell, the Lincoln Memorial would just be an empty chair.

She had a gorgeous voice and a beautiful, albeit tragically brief musical catalog. "Rehab" was hardly the best of her work.

As the mother of a toddler my approach to fashion proceeds thusly: if it is clean, fits reasonably well, is weather-appropriate and free of boogers, pee or poop then it is okay to wear.

The irony is they claim to want to protect humanity but they treat any actual human who does not fit into their narrow view of normal like shit.

What we are seeing here is mob-style murder. Adorable murder.

The alternative, of course, is having a bunch of kids that she doesn't want and raising them in an unhappy environment. She should use birth control, certainly. However, birth control is a forgone option once she is already pregnant. Once she is pregnant she must decide whether or not she can adequately parent a…

Thanks. I am thinking about doing just that. Today I felt reduced to being nothing more than an incubator. I guess this is how the anti-choicers want "bad women" to feel. Still, I would not let them make me feel ashamed; they do not have to walk in my shoes or bare the weight of this choice.

These people are morons. Abortion have always existed and they always will. They are not stopping women from having abortions. They are stopping women from accessing safe abortions.