What I Shouldn't Have To Explain About My Pregnancy

March 26, 2013 Subscribe · Forward What I Shouldn't Have To Explain About My Pregnancy Pregnancy is so interesting. Immediately and constantly, people keep telling me that everything is all about the baby. I think that means I'm supposed to stop asking questions. They said that when I was really sick for months, and I got a little depressed about not being able to get out of bed. "Just think of the baby!" They said it when it looked like I might have gestational diabetes, and I was upset because there is already so much damn diabetes in my life. The type 1 diabetics closest to me: my husband, my father, my brother, my mother-in-law. "The point is just having a healthy baby! Just take the test and don't worry about anything else," people said.  Continue reading... CAUGHT! Sneaky Parents Shoot Hilarious Video Why I Don't Care If Strangers Mistake My Son For A Girl What Many Parents Get Wrong About Feeding Infants The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week LOOK: Global Kids Fashion Week In London 105 US Kids Died Of Flu; Most Didn't Get Vaccine Is China Really Engineering Baby Geniuses? LOOK: Emotional Moment With Kristen Bell And Dax Shepard Is A Tear-Jerker 10 Things I Learned When I Stopped Yelling At My Kids How To Be A Perfect Parent In 5 Easy Steps (Or Probably Never) LISA BELKIN How I Revisited My Past With The Help Of Two Former Teachers I would not have 'known them anywhere.' Forty years is a long time, and we, all four of us, are now blurred and softened versions of the ones who'd spent nearly every day together long ago. Continue reading... ALY WINDSOR How Did You Decide Your Family's Size? Whether or not to have kids is surely a dealbreaker question between couples, but what about how many kids to have? Continue reading... EMMA GRAY Kim Kardashian Pregnancy Weight Fat-Shaming: Why You Really Should Care The volume of stories about Kardashian's body and what headlines say about it remind us how acceptable it has become to talk publicly about an individual woman's appearance in terrible ways. Continue reading... JARED BERNSTEIN The President's Preschool Proposal: What It Is and What It Isn't Putting a bunch more kids in Head Start is not what's being proposed here. The main proposal is a partnership with states to ensure that all four-year-old kids from moderate and low-income families have access to quality preschool. Continue reading... SAMANTHA KEMP-JACKSON The Top 10 Lies Parents Tell Their Kids The reality of being called "mom" or "dad" means that you're gonna have to bend the truth somewhat. The lies parents tell their kids range from the ridiculous to the sublime. These lies can range from a simple white lie to a real doozy. It's all just a matter of scale. Whatever it takes, right? Continue reading... Received this from a friend? Sign up for alerts from The Huffington Post here. Unsubscribe here. Huffington Post, 770 Broadway, New York, NY 10003