that’s exactly what I was thinking!! Read more

Oh, I must read this! I have giant guilt pile of waiting to be perused books already but I simply cannot wait! Read more

1. i did not say he was “appropriating” harajuku, i said he was mining the subculture for ideas Read more

the entire staff has turned over almost twofold since then Read more

Additional evidence: At our 4th of July BBQ, 18 weeks pregnant, I couldn’t remember the word “cake” and tried explaining to my confused husband that I wanted a slice of “sugar bread.”
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It’s hard in my area for my wife to find “mommy friends”. Anyone who would qualify (child the same age as baby Stig) is a stay at home or part time working mother. The local mommy blogs Mrs Stig has joined have play sessions, play dates all during the day/ workweek when mom/dad are working and Baby Stig is in daycare. Read more

Which seems to be the same logic as the drinking. ‘Well we don’t know who is going to be drinking a fifth for breakfast and who is going to have one glass of wine when she goes out for a special occasion...so nobody can have anything’. Read more

As a public health person, this is galling to me on so many levels. I actually would be fascinated to hear what happened with this at the CDC, because this kind of thing has to be seen by SO MANY PEOPLE!! And NO ONE said, “Hey guys? Let’s take a step back here and think about what we’re saying with this?” Read more

I’m pregnant, as is a coworker, and she has made multiple little comments about the fact that I am still drinking coffee (a cup a day, woo!). She was even saying that she had read an article about chocolate being an antioxidant (duh) so she feels less guilty eating it while pregnant (boo, guilt) but she makes sure not… Read more

The people who are at risk of delivering a child with FAS are probably not going to be able to follow any advice regarding drinking during pregnancy. Read more

From what I can gather, pre-pregnancy advice amounts to receiving both of the following from different people (and, often, from the same person): Read more

Against my better judgement, I clicked over to the Daily Caller article and read the comments - FUCKING HELL! First of all, I’m glad AF that I can’t have kids anymore and that I’m on birth control anyway, because damn do I need a drink after reading that drivel. Fair warning to anyone thinking of doing the same, I’d… Read more

Research also shows that drinking and smoking affect sperm... you know the other part of the equation. So the fact that they singled out women is a bunch of misogynistic bull crud. More and more it feels like America may be the international equivalent of Benjamin Button. Read more

Or, you could do what I did, which was go to the doc for the official blood test, because I wanted to be pregnant but it would’ve been too early for the pee stick to tell. Went to Vegas with my husband the weekend before he was deploying to Afghanistan for six months, and either wanted to know and be happy, or drink… Read more

Fuck you, CDC. I got pregnant on birth control. And now I’m feeling shamed for having drank at Christmas. EVEN THOUGH I WASN’T TRYING TO GET PREGNANT. Read more

A really close family friend of mine had a child with microcephaly, although the doctors did not call it that at the time and had little information about what could have caused it, saying, “It’s possible it was a virus.” The child was only able to live for 3 months, and it was a life that was mostly suffering. What… Read more

I think if the future of our human existence depended on access to abortion, right-wing nutjobs like Cruz still wouldn’t back down from their position. They’d rather burn down the house with everyone inside than cede ground in the abortion debate. Huckabee thought an 11 year old rape victim should have to carry her… Read more