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Great list but 7th generation disposable diapers aren’t environmentally friendly.
Excuse me, but even the most helpful and well-meaning father does not share 50% of the parenting load. Let’s not set people up for divorce – I have a very well-meaning spouse but if you are breastfeeding an infant, it severely impedes dad’s interaction time. Frankly, the first 6 months to a year of said baby’s life usually involves 80 – 90% of mom work. 50%!?! What planet are you from?
There’s no reason to pump and dump. Milk is produced on demand. You just need to wait until you’re sober. Who the hell pours breastmilk down the drain? That stuff is freedom in a bottle.
wow, lisaloo, where is all the vitriol coming from. i can say with ease that my husband easily does 70/30 more care of the baby than I do. Husbands like that really DO exist. I know, I married one. And he’s mine all mine.
Thank you so much for this article. I’m just 10 weeks and all my friends have been telling me how stressful everything is and how tired they are and how nothing will ever be the same. I know they’re well-meaning, but frankly that freaks me out. I’m glad to know that there are actually some positive aspects to having a baby.
Wow. The author left off another really good reason to have a baby – because dey have da cootest wittle toeses!*
This article is so absurd. How on baby jeebus’ earth is it a REASON to have a baby so one can later lose their baby-weight by breastfeeding/napping??? Or that a couple should actually bring a human being into this world because there are good diapers? Really? Puh-leeze, if anyone is convinced by this moronic drivel – er – list to have a baby right. now. so they can blame their child for their own shortcomings or eat gluttonous amounts of candy, they ought instead get their TUBES. TIED. now.
*other awesome reasons to have a baby: 1. to get back at Him 2. to pass along my superior genes 3. so I can have someone who will always love me 4. to get back at all those self-righteous mothers & fathers getting mother’s & father’s day cards every year (yeah – take THAT self-righteous mothers&fathers!) *sigh*
You all need to take a stiff drink and realax. These arean’t the only reasons for having kids. They aren’t even “reasons” so much as perks to having a kid. Furthermore they are pretty off the cuff and ment to be taken as tongue and cheek I’m pretty sure. Theres soooo much more to taking care of a baby than feeding…waaaayyyy more. Theres diapering, clothing, occupying, playing with etc. Also I wouldn’t really count breatfeeding as work, st least not beyond about 6 weeks anyways. And I did it twice.
This is why I hate Babble… a load of stupid crap with NO facts and stupid opinions.
Thank you so much for this. It really reassured me.
Can everyone just shut the fuck up some of this stuff really helps people
When i read felisha’s name i Jizzed in my pants
Troll be trollin’