the best baby photo shoot you will ever see

Here are a few of my favs!

the rest can be found here. thanks buzzfeed

why you wanna get another baby?

from gawker. this little boy has it right. too many damn babies!

and while we're discussing things you should and should not read:

i know it seems like something you should avoid, and i did avoid it for a couple of days, but my morbid curiosity won out in the end, and i read the nymag "my abortion" feature. i have to say it was quite illuminating and moving at times and only contained a couple of medical nightmares, so i encourage you, especially, to check it out.

BUT.

whatever you do, do NOT read this new yorker piece about a woman who had a late-term miscarriage while traveling in mongolia. do. NOT. i haven't been able to close my eyes all week.

parenting mistakes

don't watch this.

i didn't even know thomas wilhelm was pregnant.

look what he did to his baby!

A stranger handed me a handwritten business (index) card

It lead me to this Youtube single which was better than I expected.

gchatz w/ john

re: this.

me: i just did the unthinkable
and wikipedia'd "placenta" at work
John: i did too!
me: omg
so the umbilical cord
plugs into the placenta?
which is like nature's electrical outlet?
John: yeah
the placenta is the intermediate between the mother's body and the baby, via the umbilical cord
it's sort of a filter
me: its a magic blanket?
John:  it's also, as i would have imagined, tough and fibrous
at least with the macaque monkey
me: like a steak?
John: idk. maybe like horse meat
me: never had it
guess what your new nickname is
John: macaque monkey?
me: close
placental expulsion
John: no
that's emily
you know it fits her better
me: i dont care whom it is
as long as someone gets it
John: emily
me: done

i'd like to eat you is all

via

thirsty human puppy is thirsty

via

50 reasons..

...to be pumped that you live in nyc. i think a lot of us could use some reminders these days, amiright ladies?!!? some of these are a bit cheesy, but here are a few that i identified with:

50. Sending your laundry out for someone else to wash and dry it is not only convenient, it's just good business.

48. The secret Chick Fil-A at the NYU dining hall.

26. Smart people are the norm, not the exception. (Which doesn't mean they're sane, but at least no one's boring.)

25. Except in select 'hoods like Park Slope and perhaps the Upper West Side, children are viewed as mysterious beings, rarely sighted and only occasionally understood, like pixies or magical small butlers. Until they scream, in which case, they are banished from the palace.

24. When you fly back into the city after a vacation or business trip, no matter how long you've lived here, you get that butterflies-in-the-stomach feeling.

19. There's no shame in sticking your fingers in your ears like an anal weirdo when an ambulance goes by screeching.

10. Subway rage. Bike-lane rage. Walking rage. Random rage. These are our therapy.

7. Subway "prewalking," in which you walk to the exact right spot on the platform to board the train car that will save you the most time upon exit, exists and has a name. Gotta respect. (via)

thx davey!