new moms
New Mom Friends are a necessity, much like wide swaddling blankets and good, supportive bras.
cats
You have your baby, and I have mine.
babies
I don't actually hate your baby! It was just a thing I did for money once.
what the parenting books don't tell you
Seriously, why does no one tell you this stuff?
babies
I purchased prenatal vitamins, took a picture of the jar and Texted it to my boyfriend with the following caption: “My vitamin-enriched womb will be the best nest ever!"
babies
A friend of mine recently received an anonymous email telling her to "cool it" with the baby pics on Facebook. Who does that?!
babies
Arguably, more people are going to see my abdomen than my ladybiz, but I'm more concerned about the latter's appearance.
babies
I'm pretty content with the way things are right now, but I definitely hold on to some feminist guilt about not having my own income, and I'm very sensitive to SAHM stereotypes and wage a constant battle against them.
ihtm contest
He broke up with me the week before Christmas. I spent the next week holed up in bed, eating éclairs and watching Grey’s Anatomy. If I had been in a better state, I might have noticed I had missed my period.
breastfeeding
I want to try to explain to you why I'm still breastfeeding my toddler. Because I'm not really certain myself, some days.
ihtm contest
In less than two months, he had gone from trying to have a baby with me, his partner of eight years, to actually having a baby with someone he’d been dating for two weeks.
babies
Apparently people aren't naming their babies "Hillary" anymore. Lame.
sex
I would never want to have sex with a man whose love and desire for me is tied to the visibility of my stretch marks.
babies
BUT - what if they secretly had plastic surgery before I met them, and then rubbed themselves in sexy pheromones, JUST TO ENSNARE ME?
babies
I'm embarrassed to admit to you and to anybody that I'm not sure how I feel about babies at a time when it's maybe most important for me to know.
babies
And how do you know that you're actually going to like your child???
babies
I appear to be the emotional version of Benjamin Button. Without the romantic backstory and cool motorbike.