When I'm drunk, I'm on vacation from being a mom. My shift has ended, and I am now like a tax-write-off dependent and my friends are my guardians.
motherhood
children
Having a week where I don’t have to put anyone to bed, or be the disciplinarian, or wait until after 9:00 p.m. to watch my recorded HBO shows is THE BEST.
motherhood
Becoming a parent is mind-blowing for everyone, but I think it's harder when you're older because, as the British woman says in her article, you've become extremely set in your ways.
cervix
The joy and the wonder of having new life growing inside of you, the fierce bond you develop with your fetus and the supposedly hot fetish sex. I pretty much hated every moment of it.
birth shaming
If you don’t know a woman well enough to know how she feels about what’s happening with her vagina, then you don’t know her well enough to advise her on it.
motherhood
My family fantasy centered around me, a feminist dude partner, and two adopted daughters that I could call Mary and Margot after my favorite lady monarchs. Our home would ooze estrogen and empowered ladyhood.
ihtm contest
Fifteen weeks pregnant, on a Friday night, while watching "Kitchen Nightmares" and gorging on Taco Bell I began hemorrhaging.
motherhood
"Would you want your daughter to do what you're doing?" or its variant, "Would you want your daughter to have access to your work?" are meant to call out hypocrisy in those of us who support sexual freedom.
learnvest
My mom insisted I wash my daughter’s clothes in expensive Dreft baby detergent. Weeks later, out of Dreft, desperate and surrounded by piles of stinky kid clothes, I decided to use whatever I had in the house.
mothers
Seeing my mother struggle with parenthood makes me wonder if history will repeat itself.
babies
I love my boyfriend, but there is no way in hell I am having a baby with this man.
drunk driving
I didn't think twice about the fact that I had downed a couple of beers until I saw the cherries spinning behind me on the Interstate.
art
Madison Young, national treasure, opens up about being sex positive, knowing your body, misconceptions about bdsm, sexuality during pregnancy, not projecting heteronormative roles on children and more.
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Sex, Sex, Sex ... and Love,
art,
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Becoming MILF,
Femina Potens,
feminism,
feminist porn,
intimacy,
motherhood,
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Mar 22, 2012 at 9:00am | 55 comments
abandonment
I was terrified of becoming a mother because I thought that I would also leave my kids.
trichotillomania
Of all the ways I expected motherhood to change my life, excessive leg plucking wasn’t one of them.
motherhood
Getting semi-liquid rubber inside a woman is easy; getting set rubber out, less so.
fertility
My mother said, “Lorraine, you know you can’t have a baby."
motherhood
After I had Gabe, I was clearly in need of some help. I was a wreck, my baby was basically starving and the midwife on call wouldn’t come and see me at home because she wasn’t allowed to visit a house in the dark.
family drama
Little things like what I wear or how I look doesn’t seem as important anymore. Growing up financially is just one benefit to having a child in my life.
babies
How dressing up as a "ski bunny" made me reevaluate my stance on motherhood.
motherhood
Celebrity baby bumps, designer strollers, fake playground trends and other things that are supposedly of interest to 38-year-old mothers like me.
family drama
Why voluntary (and really all) single motherhood is the last feminist frontier.
