Same! LOL

That’s what they call the swim diapers like Little Swimmers. They mean don’t put your kid in the pool in a regular disposable diaper that will swell up and explode.

I think a lot of people feel this way.

Oh wow I was going to reply to your earlier comment with a me too but now really me too! My transgender male child was diagnosed with social pragmatic communication disorder (essentially what they call Asperger’s now that it’s not in the DSM any longer) last fall. My ex husband was diagnosed when we separated ten…

I previously had no opinion on DJ Khalid but I am utterly charmed by this. Adorable.

How does she take advantage of them? Sounds like they are both getting something from it and everyone knows the score.

I think it’s the one on the bottom right?

And the daughter was from his wife’s first marriage and he adopted her and raised her after his wife’s death. He’s fabulous. I love him and I’m glad he is by all appearances happily married.

I guess I misread your repeated use of “I think” which made it seem you weren’t sure how doulas functioned or whether they were regulated. It is not correct that a woman can choose to give birth in her home with whoever she wants there. Not if they serve as an official attendant who was hired to provide a medical…

Same. LOL Oh Spydaddy.

Now I’ve been hearing about Kevin Spacey for more than twenty years but Victor Garber?! What?!

Doulas are just a support person. There aren’t regulations because they aren’t medical professionals and can’t provide any medical care. They rub your back and say you’re doing great etc. Not at all in the same category as a midwife.

Any woman can call herself a midwife but in many states she can’t practice. There are laws that restrict who can give what care. It’s not the wild west here where I can just say I’m a midwife and legally go around attending births with no training.

In the UK and Europe homebirth is the standard for a normal pregnancy. It’s not about lack of access to a hospital. They just don’t feel it’s required. Now this is a twin pregnancy so a totally different ballgame. But homebirth is very normal in the western world outside of the US and they have far better maternal and…

Absolutely not true that a midwife can’t handle a shoulder distocia. What are you talking about? They are absolutely trained for that. The other complications yes they hand off to an OB, but midwives handle shoulder distocias very routinely. I had two. No broken clavicles. They just unhooked the shoulder.

They can also prescribe medicine. They’re essentially nurse practioners for birth. And yes it’s mostly a philosophical difference. I had midwives attend hospital births.

Well they are also sold as a sleep aid, nytol and generics of that, but it’s still just diphenhydramine. When it’s packaged as a sleep aid then it’s usually blue instead of pink. But they are still very small.

That was my reaction as well. GAWR ok, but MM? I think he’s more famous.

My 95 year old Nannie kills it on the computer so I don’t want to hear any noise for Boomers.

In my husband’s family he’s literally the only male family member I’ve met who actually goes by his first name. Everyone else goes by their middle name!