Well done, Cap'n!

How cool is this?

Sounds like the captain did an admirable job dealing with what can be a dangerous birth:

Head entrapment is caused the failure of the fetal head to negotiate the maternal pelvis. At full term ... the size of the hips are the same as the size of the head. The relatively larger buttocks dilate the cervix as effectively as the head does in the typical head-down presentation. The relative head size of a premature fetus is significantly greater that the fetal buttocks. If the baby is premature, it may be possible for the baby’s body to emerge while the cervix has not dilated enough for the head to emerge.

Scary! I'm so glad this women delivered safely, as baby wasn't due till mid-September.

Division of labor

Apparently, getting married changes everything ... chore-wise, anyway.

So, men get married, they do less housework, women get married, they do more.

Is this a matter of marriage traditionalizing roles? Or is it that women take more pride and responsibility in a household? ('This is my family's home', as opposed to 'this is where my boyfriend and I live')?

Did you catch the interesting side note of how men who make more money do fewer chores?

Hmmmm.

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Hello and welcome to the new One Tough Mother Blog!

In case you haven't seen this, check out this eBay auction.

Even if you only have ONE kid, you can identify.

Dawn, the author/seller also has a hilarious blog. She's a dab hand at writing about mommying and is keeping us updated right now with reports of some jerk who copied her advert. Fortunately eBay took it down (the copycat advert).

Note to self: idiots can be amusing.