What Would Phoebe Do?

This is a good old-fashioned what-a-silly-article blog post. So let me be clear: I don't think its author is a Bad Person, and yeah, th...

When I was 11 - and I remember the age exactly, because of friend-group fluctuations and which friend this was - my best friend at the time ...

It can be challenging in the beginning. That much is admitted even by breastfeeding proponents, but what "challenging" meant rem...

So I (mostly) love where I live, but it's too small, or will be, and yeah. But I'm a millennial, which means I've spent all my m...

The verdict is given at the six-week appointment: Are you back to normal? Your normal, not Gisele's, but both may seem similarly implaus...

-House-leaving. Including baby classes, meet-ups, whatever it is one does, and I have some promising leads on that front but am open to more...

Hello again, reader(s), from the other side. Necessary short version: All is well! Baby is great! Blog will remain my own holdings-forth and...

Hello, this time from one day past my due date. This means, I suppose, that the end is in sight. Also that I feel as though I should be offe...

And done . Thanks to some tremendous achievements in the field of not getting out much (except over the weekend, when a modest neighborhood-...

Hello from the land of too pregnant to teach. I am not, shockingly, too pregnant to Netflix. Decided to go with "Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat,...

Every trimester has its theme. The first: disbelief. Was I really pregnant? Was I really pregnant? Really? When not frantically fear-googlin...

Isn't it sad when a new mother has to pay her nanny (wild how nannies expect payment), and the nanny budget dips into the designer-cloth...

As best as I can tell, pregnancy has two phases: the bit where it's hard to know if the whole thing is real, and the one where it's ...

Sorry, dear reader(s), but I remain fixated on the bonkers Twitter response to the news story of the pregnant woman who got served cleaning...

-When I see Catherine Nichols has a new piece out, I always click, but I especially recommend her latest for Jezebel , about "dead girl...

Everyone seemed to really love "Nanette." By "everyone" at this stage (there will be other stages), I mostly mean people...

There are certain birthdays that matter. The last of these for me was 27 , aka the age I became a  madame , in a couple (but not all) senses...

To discuss maternity clothes is to discuss bodies. There's no one situation of The Pregnant Lady (or to expand further, and open up anot...