Since this piece is focusing on (Nurse) Midwives and Midwives in general, I’d like to point out that epidurals may be administered by Anesthesiologists and also Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists, of which I am one.

I love the Garnier BB creams! So dewy! I’ve also heard great things about the Origins BB cream.

If you can spend a little more than drugstore prices, I love Clinique’s BB cream. I am very pale and have lots of pink in my skin (thanks, Mom!) and it evens things out beautifully. And Clinique is generally good for sensitive/acne prone skin. I’ve used it for a few years now and it’s great.

“There I was, enjoying a light repast at the Applebuddies club, engaging in a fine and stimulating discussion of Amanda McKittrick Ros’s brilliant use of simile and metaphor, when suddenly what should assault my ears but some jenny foreigner defiling the rarefied air of our great nation with her native tongue! Well I…

My niece got one of these for Christmas and all had the missing hair clumps to prove it. However, on my husband’s shiny, perfectly straight, thick Italian hair it worked perfectly. He was thrilled.

I used to comment regularly on Jezebel for years (under a different name) and stopped because of the feeling the author describes when someone she assumed would be an ally made her feel unwelcome.

My sister was born quite premature - a few weeks farther along than your niece I think, somewhere in the 6th month of pregnancy. She is 100% fine more than 30 years later. It was a very scary time for my parents, but medicine has come a loooooooong way in terms of dealing with pre-term babies. The odds of a 24-week…

My nephews were both born 5 weeks premature. They each had to stay in the hospital for about a month. They are now 5 and 3, with no lingering issues. I don’t know anything about issues with babies born at 24 weeks, but I just want to offer my sympathy for what you and your family are going through. It is so scary and…

I have no experience with premature babies and no advice to give but just wanted to wish you and your family the very best outcome possible.

- “Spending the Weekend on the Couch in My Underwear Browsing the Internet Mindlessly: The Motion Picture.”

I picked Marco Rubio because 1) I, too, enjoy the musical stylings of the Wu-Tang Clan and 2) I’m also always thirsty.

Yes! I know it’s gonna sound cheesy but I get these feelings when I hear the guitar riffs of “Come As You Are” and the intro to “Fade Into You” by Mazzy Star.

True love is finding someone who hates all of the same things you do.

In 11 days, my family is going to drop me off for a week long trip. After 17 years of marriage and 2 kids, I cannot believe that I am going to be alone for that long. I don’t have to worry about what anyone else wants to eat, who needs to pee, kids picking at each other, etc. It is going to be a vacation from my whole…

Speaking as someone who has been married for 15 years and has two kids, let me just say that traveling to a beautiful vacation spot where I can stare off into space for a week sounds like fucking bliss I say, bliss!

My cat will start conversing with me in English before the US gets proportional voting.

I love this book, but it could be a little tighter in editing and I did start to lose concentration near the end

“So: what totally frivolous item would you buy if you suddenly became filthy rich? “

because she is afraid if she would hire 2 female nannies JT would bang them.

They fail to mention that the end, where you try to get everything you bought into the car to take home, demonstrates once and for all which person in the relationship is better at Tetris. (It’s totally me.)