The shock of Ivy’s birth and my subsequent reactions to parenting have scarred me for life. The birth of my daughter, Ivy, was traumatic. I hoped for a more granola experience, as promised by the Business of Being Born DVD. Unfortunately, the bullet points on my birth plan contracted alongside my uterus. I still wonder […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana: My husband and I have been married for five years. We both have decent paying jobs, both […]
Dear Dana is a bi-weekly advice column for humans who engage in romantic relationships. Please send your dilemmas, issues, conundrums, assumptions, conflicts, anxieties, worriments, obstacles, complications, predicaments, queries, questions, and any other synonyms for “problems” to deardana@rolereboot.org. Dear Dana, My husband and I used to enjoy oral sex (on me) and he’s amazing at it. However, […]
Do you have a burning question about pregnancy, modern parenting or family life? Send it to Evie at AskEvieColumn@gmail.com or click here to submit your question anonymously. Dear Evie: We’re thinking of having a baby. But…I dunno. All of our friends have already had kids or are pregnant now and my partner and I keep noticing […]
I have been hurt many times in my life, and I will probably be hurt many times more, but those words pierced my heart. I heard the two words you should never say to a new mother a few months ago. I was crying, doubting my ability to mother our toddler and 5-month-old twins. I […]
I love having people around to remind me that, no, the world doesn’t actually revolve around my diaper change schedule. When you have a child, you prepare for the fact that your life will change. Throughout the joys and tribulations of your pregnancy or your partner’s pregnancy or waiting to bring your adopted child home, […]
Do you have a burning question about pregnancy, modern parenting or family life? Send it to Evie at AskEvieColumn@gmail.com or click here to submit your question anonymously. Dear Evie, You know when you want a job really, really bad, you do all this prep and sweat over the interview and try on 400 outfits? Then you […]
Breastfeeding was a war zone and we were both casualties. It was my friend who finally made me see sense. She’s a doctor so her opinion cut through in a way my other friends couldn’t, even if they’d told me the same thing. “Mia, you’ve been on antibiotics for 70 days in the past six […]
I’m still ambivalent about the idea of having children, but if I do, I hope my kid knows I loved him enough to constantly piss off all my friends by posting pictures of him. It’s a law of nature that given any sort of resource, people will use that opportunity to be annoying about it. Personally, […]
Mothers are two and a half times more likely than fathers to cover the nightshift of caretaking. Arianna Huffington has deemed sleep the next big feminist issue, because women are significantly more sleep deprived than men. Without enough sleep, she argues, we cannot reach our full potential as a sex: “A nation of sleepy women is […]
